Rogers Media lays off 87 employees over 2 days
Rogers Media has laid off 27 full-time employees in its English-language digital content and publishing division.
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The Canadian Press updated the style guide description of “alt-right”
New guidelines in Caps and Spelling say to include description as “a U.S.-based white nationalist movement.”
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A unique sports event series is bringing journalists and audiences together
By Adriel Smiley The doors of the Drake Underground open at almost a quarter past 7 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2016 for Hoop Talks, a live speaker series about basketball produced by Homestand Sports. The venue fills up quickly with about 60 people who paid $20 for a ticket. The music of Schoolboy Q fills…
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Here are the confirmed Globe and Mail staff who took buyouts
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor On Nov. 18, a select number of Globe and Mail staff members packed up their belongings and left the newspaper’s offices at 444 Front St. in Toronto for the last time as staff members. Voluntary severance packages were offered to all Globe and Mail staff on Sept. 8, according to…
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NFB Instagram project brings Indigenous stories to the mobile screen
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Tennessa Wild The Instagram profile “What Brings Us Here” is filled with real stories in real time. The collection of photographs on the profile are compiled by the National Film Board to showcase the activism by local grassroots organizations in Winnipeg, MB. What started out as…
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Globe and Mail Public Editor: We must call the ‘alt-right’ what it is: fascist, racist, white supremacist
By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail Should journalists use made-up words? Sometimes yes. Language changes constantly, and so words such as “post-truth” and “yogalates” come into the vernacular and should be used and explained until they are well understood. (Post-truth: when emotions, beliefs and even lies trump facts as the drivers of public…
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Memo: More newsroom changes at the Toronto Star
The following memo was sent to Toronto Star staff on Nov. 25, 2016 from Michael Cooke, editor, and Irene Gentle, managing editor. Colleagues, Very happy to announce some terrific new moves in the newsroom. Dave Washburn will begin an exciting new role as acting sports editor, starting Monday. Dave joined the Star newsroom in 2015…
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Enabling people with mental illness to make films could challenge media stereotypes, say researchers
By Allison Ridgway for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre Three Canadian researchers are giving people who’ve experienced mental illnesses the resources and training to make their own documentary films to see if such videos challenge traditional media stereotypes about people who are mentally ill. So far, participants have created videos with substantially different themes and…
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CBC Ombudsman: Watch Your Language
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Kamran Moghbel, thought a reporter should not have used the colloquial phrase “kick out” to describe an incident in which a student was told to leave an exam for refusing to remove her hijab. He said colloquialisms don’t belong in the news and in this case it distorted…
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CBC Ombudsman: Headline Peril — Hype vs. Accuracy
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman CBC News in Montreal published a story about SNC-Lavalin and illegal political contributions they had given to the Liberal and Conservative parties over a 7-year period. The complainant, Beverly Akerman, thought the headline featuring Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre made it sound like he knew about the payment to his riding…