‘We think a person with their own individual experiences and history and background will approach a story differently. More importantly, they will point and compose their frame differently’ Continue Reading Room Up Front launches to mentor aspiring BIPOC photojournalists
Negotiations for a Trump-led takeover of the popular video sharing app continue to twist and turn, with Walmart and Oracle in line for partial ownership. But is a U.S.-owned ByteDance any different for Canadians? And what will happen if the app gets banned? Continue Reading Understanding the TikTok saga and what it means to Canada
Canada lags behind some countries with preserving public digital records Continue Reading 2020 is a year for the history books, but not without digital archives
When CBC News reported on the way the Epoch Times was covering issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, it inspired dozens of complaints. Reader David Tencer wrote that CBC had done a “smear job” on the newspaper, and his complaint is the subject of my latest review. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsperson: CBC coverage of the Epoch Times
Ontario students on making sure the campus presses kept rolling, bringing youth voices to community journalism and striking out on their own Continue Reading Meet the high school journalists who kept publishing in a pandemic
Long-awaited updates now offer path for news media to issue tax receipts to donors. But the road to philanthropic journalism is paved with Canada Revenue Agency rules, uncertainty about Canadians’ willingness to give Continue Reading Will nonprofit journalism rules now on the books help news organizations in Canada?
‘This role will provide a safe place for BIPOC journalists and all journalists to express editorial-related discrimination and bias concerns if they don’t feel comfortable bringing it to their manager directly.’ Continue Reading Memo: Shree Paradkar named ‘first internal ombud’ at the Toronto Star
Highly skilled reporters from across the world exiled in Canada rarely find employment in the country’s newsrooms. The RRJ’s Neha Chollangi on the rich journalistic experience that media organizations lose when they don’t carve out space for newcomers’ expertise Continue Reading Missing voices
The annual bursary competition, presented by the Canadian Journalism Forum for Violence and Trauma, is open until Aug. 31 Continue Reading Applications for the 2020 Forum Freelance Fund Bursaries have re-opened
This post is part of the COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada, a joint initiative of J-Source, the Local News Research Project at Ryerson University and the Canadian Association of Journalists. Continue Reading COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Update Aug. 14