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Updated rules for language, terms for marginalized communities being discussed for new edition of Canadian Press Stylebook

By Allison Ridgway and Ania Bessonov The Canadian Press (CP) is discussing how to update its stylebook to reflect changing language surrounding LGBTQ, Indigenous and disabled communities, CP’s editor-in-chief said during a Ryerson Journalism Research Centre panel earlier this month. But the national news agency must keep its clients and readers in mind when contemplating such changes,…
UBC gets $200,000 government grant for new Canadian journalism outlet

Funds from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will bring The Conversation, a news site about academic work, to Canada.
Ryerson reporting project on Truth and Reconciliation makes waves

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor In a recent article in The Atlantic, Kieran Delamont tells the story of how Indigenous people have had a difficult history of representation in video games. It’s an important story that had its genesis in a classroom in Ryerson University’s journalism school. During the 2016 Winter semester, Ryerson professor Asmaa…
Learning how to interview doctors, by actually interviewing them

Ryerson and U of T combine forces to train doctors and journalists on interviewing skills.
Canadian student doc about La Loche recognized by New York Times

The documentary, Denendeh, was created by University of Regina School of Journalism students in 2010.
Ryerson Review of Journalism to continue as print magazine

School of Journalism announces it intends to keep publishing print magazine at a slightly higher price.
Where will journalism education go from here?

The future of journalism education is the focus of a new collection of essays just published by the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre.
Halifax schools to offer a joint journalism and law program

New program at Dalhousie and University of King’s College offers J.D. and M.J. concurrently.
Using analytics to make editorial decisions

There are all kinds of analytics available to show you who is looking at your site and how they’re getting there. But how can you—or should you—use that information when selecting which stories to cover?
Which audience behaviour matters when analyzing analytics?

In this third part of an open-source learning video series created in partnership with Ryerson University and Sheridan College, Nicole Blanchett Neheli explores how to interpret data that tracks the way your audience consumes what you create.

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