Tired of lamenting the bleak state of Canadian journalism, a collection of students and recent graduates are taking matters into their own hands with a new publication for youth voices Continue Reading The Pigeon launches to carve space for new journalists in shrinking media landscape
Professors tend to believe their students don’t want to do math. As a result, more frequently used tools like social media are emphasized, leaving new reporters behind on complex analysis tasks valued (if underutilized) by newsrooms Continue Reading J-schools lag behind in teaching prized data journalism skills
Adjusting to new COVID-19 realities around physical distancing and an increasingly cashless economy, street papers across Canada are adapting to continue publishing and keep vendors at work Continue Reading What’s happening to the street beat?
Independent, student media monitoring press freedom as reporters’ ability to cover news on the ground is compromised Continue Reading Quebec emerges as hotspot for reporting interference
The owner of Canada’s largest newspaper chain saw its most recent quarterly revenue slashed by a quarter as advertising revenue decline accelerated amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but said it would stop a pay reduction program one month early thanks to government aid. Continue Reading Postmedia revenue down more than 25% amid COVID-19 advertising pullback
The ethics board issued decisions in June on four complaints, all of which were dismissed or found to have been appropriately addressed. They included dismissal of complaints that a Toronto Star column showed “bias against white people,” the accuracy of a term used in a Toronto Sun opinion column and two against two respective newspapers in Kamloops, B.C. Continue Reading Here’s what the National NewsMedia Council decided in June
The RRJ’s 2020 editor on what a print magazine on the state of journalism conceived pre-COVID can still tell us about how to move forward Continue Reading What does the past, present and future look like in unprecedented times?
The rapid shift to work-from-home shows that better conditions for disabled workers aren’t so inaccessible after all. Journalists discuss the conditions that threatened to push them out and how to bring them back in Continue Reading Newsroom accessibility in a post-pandemic world
Staff at Canadaland, an independent podcast network and news organization, have officially filed for union certification. Continue Reading Canadaland staff file to unionize
New federal rules allowing news organizations to become non-profits may not be worth the effort for Canada’s struggling media sector Continue Reading From media house to charity case