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![Time to change this picture? An ad tops off CBC News' website. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
CBC-Radio Canada should stay in the digital game, get out of advertising, and lead the fight against fake news, say its newsroom leaders
By Kat Eschner Over at Policy Options, two newsroom leaders from CBC-Radio Canada have written a piece discussing what the public broadcaster’s mission should be in the fake news era. The “two… -
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How did we get here? Chronicle Herald strike enters thirteenth month as talks once again break down
By Kat Eschner The 55 Halifax Chronicle Herald employees who walked off the job on January 23, 2016 are now in their second year of striking. But in a release dated Feb.… -
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Vice Canada’s ongoing legal case is about bigger issues in Canadian journalism
By Kat Eschner Third-party intervenors in yesterday’s appeal by Ben Makuch and Vice Canada provided broader context into the importance and dangers of this case. Vice Canada and Ben Makuch’s lawyer Iain… -
![Carrie Mae Best's newspaper, the Clarion, covered Viola Desmond's arrest on the front page of its first edition in 1946. Image courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives.]()
Meet the two African Nova Scotian reporters who helped bring Viola Desmond’s story to light
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign By Sandrinette M. Maniania In 2018, Viola Desmond will be the first woman in Canada to grace the $10 bill. Many now know…
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![Mervin Brass speaks at The Reconciliation and the Media Conference. Photo courtesy Caitlin Taylor.]()
Mervin Brass is a voice for Treaty 4
“Give them an opportunity. Give them a chance to develop. Just keep investing in Indigenous people.”
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![Connie Walker is a CBC investigative reporter who has devoted her career to covering Indigenous issues. Photo courtesy of CBC.]()
Connie Walker is passionate about reporting Indigenous issues
“It’s all about applying the same level of critical thinking that you do about everything else, to Indigenous issues.”
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How Canada ended up on the cover of The Economist
By Madelaine Drohan Reaction to the cover story I wrote for The Economist on Canada (Liberty Moves North, Oct. 29) revealed a lot of misconceptions about how such stories come about. Some…
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How Kevin Donovan investigated the secret life of Jian Ghomeshi
By Joe Smith-Engelhardt The journalistic and police investigations and subsequent trial and acquittal of disgraced CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault cases were very difficult for the public to grasp. Many…
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Meet the Press: Angela Sterritt
By Nadine Tousignant for CNW Angela Sterritt is an award-winning Gitxsan journalist, artist and writer, from British Columbia. Sterritt has worked as a journalist for close to twenty years and has been with CBC since…
