A government-appointed collective of journalism associations and unions issues its final report Continue Reading Media fund panel asks Ottawa to help small newsrooms and spend ad dollars at home
SSHRC reviewers said the Global Journalism Innovation Lab “promises to be influential at a time of critical need” Continue Reading UBC researchers lead $2.5-million journalism innovation project
By Adina Bresge A true-crime podcast probing the deaths and disappearances of Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay, Ont. is set to be adapted for the small screen. Northwood Entertainment and the producers of Canadaland’s “Thunder Bay” are teaming up to develop the podcast into a TV drama series. Downloaded more than a million times worldwide, the podcast examines how…
Here’s our regular update on the moves, hires and promotions in Canadian journalism. Want your job move featured? Tweet it to us or use the hashtag #cdnmediamoves Continue Reading Media on the move: June and July
The National Post named Rob Roberts its new editor-in-chief on Monday. Roberts has held various editorial positions with the Post, including copy editor when the paper first launched in 1998, until departing to lead the Canadian Press’s Atlantic Bureau. Postmedia names Rob Roberts editor-in-chief of the National Post https://t.co/4vnCTndfP3 — J-Source (@jsource) July 8, 2019…
By Colin Perkel A reporter’s last-ditch attempt at blocking an RCMP demand for his background materials in a terrorism case failed Thursday with a judge refusing to stay the production order. In her ruling, Ontario Superior Court Justice Breese Davies said the Mounties still have valid reasons to make their demand of journalist Ben Makuch…
Declining enrolment, fewer newspaper jobs prompts revamp of program Continue Reading Niagara College journalism program in final year, to be replaced by multimedia storytelling
The complainant, Jack Locke, thought that a story on the World at Six took sides in a running controversy over adding fluoride to drinking water. As a long-time opponent of fluoridation, he found that hard to swallow. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsperson: Fuss over fluoride
The RRJ’s Katherine Singh explores the state of commerce and the limits of feminism in women’s magazines Continue Reading Can women’s media ever be “authentically” feminist?
“Who – or what – will do journalism in this AI-enhanced and automated world, and how will they do it?” Continue Reading Artificial-intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy