After almost two years doing and teaching journalism at a distance, safety planning is preparing j-school students for not just a pandemic, but also a career in news Continue Reading How COVID-19 has expanded journalism education toolkits
Pandemic a litmus test for multilingual media, which helped stave off a bigger disaster by communicating with communities otherwise missed by mainstream media, say panelists Continue Reading Governments ignore ethnic media at their own peril
The pandemic has shown the value of a data-literate news media Continue Reading How journalists informed audiences in a data-filled era
From vaccine hesitancy to the rise of far-right extremism, COVID-19 has mainstreamed conspiracy theories at an astonishing rate, with devastating impacts — but the handful of reporters and researchers addressing them in Canada say they don’t have the resources to respond to the country’s dis- and misinformation crisis alone Continue Reading Could a dedicated disinformation beat help address the infodemic in Canada?
Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy prize open for submissions until Oct. 15 Continue Reading Nominations open for Code of Silence Awards
‘More [important] than the tools is the willingness to change and learn and pick up a new platform’ Continue Reading How the Toronto Star used TikTok to cover the election
Liberal Party re-elected to form a minority government in hotly unanticipated mid-pandemic snap election Continue Reading Front pages the day after a 2021 Canadian election
Facebook has known that its algorithms enable trolls to spread propoganda Continue Reading Facebook’s algorithms fueled massive foreign propaganda campaigns during the 2020 U.S. election – here’s how algorithms can manipulate you
Reporting team Emma McIntosh and Fatima Syed to be led by bureau chief Denise Balkissoon Continue Reading New bureau from The Narwhal will bring environmental investigative journalism to Ontario
If this sort of sympathetic coverage of Maxime Bernier and his PPC seems familiar, that’s because it should Continue Reading Mainstream media blew Trump coverage — and now risks doing the same with the PPC