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    Globe and Mail Public Editor: Prose must be attributed

    By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail A Media Culpa blog was forwarded to me by a reader last night about an issue in Saturday’s Margaret Wente column. The blog by Carol Wainio noted similarities in several passages in the column compared to experts’ writing. Ms. Wainio notes that the introduction in Ms. Wente’s column is similar…

  • Barb Pacholik, a senior reporter at the Regina Leader-Post, tackled a difficult subject in her piece “Betrayal: What do you do when you discover your friend is a pedophile?” Screenshot by J-Source.

    Reporting on the unspeakable

    By Paige Kreutzwieser Barb Pacholik, a senior reporter at the Regina Leader-Post, tackled a difficult subject in her piece “Betrayal: What do you do when you discover your friend is a pedophile?” Pacholik received a 2014 Beyond Borders Award for the feature that focused on Jon Walsh and his friend Bradley Chanin. After Walsh found…

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    University of Regina professor Patricia W. Elliott is the new J-Source editor-in-chief

    By Chris Waddell, Publisher I am pleased to announce the appointment of Patricia W. Elliott as editor-in-chief of J-Source effective June 1, 2016. An assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Regina, Patricia was one of the J-Source originals, involved in the publication’s earliest days, watching it go from a prototype…

  • Israr Kasana interviews Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousufzai for his TV show in 2015. Photo courtesy Israr Kasana.

    Save Us from Depression: Immigrant Journalist

    By Israr Kasana for New Canadian Media I was confident I was not being naïve or a ninnyhammer when I decided to relocate as a family to North America yet again, this time to Canada. That was a year ago. I had a Master’s degree, lots of national and international journalistic experience – both print and…

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    CBC Ombudsman: Tweets in Stories: No big deal

    By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Lawrence Wilson, thought reproducing the graphic image of a tweet from a politician was like providing free political advertising. He thought it made it too easy for someone to follow the politician. Quoting a tweet is accepted practice and when it’s embedded in a story with lots…

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    Brunswick News ombudswoman: Communicating with consideration: writing about mental health

    A headline last month that referred to this winter’s weather as “schizophrenic” received an appropriately chilly response from many readers. By Patricia Graham for the Brunswick News A headline last month that referred to this winter’s weather as “schizophrenic” received an appropriately chilly response from many readers. The description was contained in a quote from…

  • We spoke to people at Discourse Media, Hakai Magazine and The Sheet about the challenges and rewards of being entrepreneurial in Canada. Graphic by J-Source.

    Journalism startups carve out niches for themselves in Canada

    By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor A frequent lament among Canadian journalists is that we don’t have the same vibrant media culture as our American neighbours. There is no Canadian ProPublica, Knight Foundation, Vox, Mic, Poynter, The Intercept—we could go on. Point being, our media landscape is smaller and is controlled by very few companies. In…