• Patti Sonntag and Robert Cribb will co-teach a new course on hard investigative skills at the Banff Centre this fall. Image courtesy of Marcia O'Connor/CC BY-NC 2.0.

    Banff Centre to offer inaugural investigative journalism course this fall

    By H.G. Watson, Managing Editor Last fall, when Patti Sonntag was invited to an event at the Banff Centre, an arts and culture school nestled in the picturesque Alberta Rockies, she looked around and had a brainwave — she thought there should be investigative trainings there. And now, there will be. In late May, the Banff…
  • Steven Zhou, Chelby Marie Daigle, Ishmael Daro and Naheed Mustafa speak on June 4 panel moderated by Amira Elghawaby. Photo courtesy of Angela Long.

    Muslim communities are telling new stories to break old stereotypes, say panelists

    By Angela Long for the Local News Conference If you want to learn about the Muslim community, don’t read the news, says the associate editor of The Islamic Monthly.   Steven Zhou, who converted to Islam six years ago, said writing about a community takes time and resources. As a result, too many publications produce “surface-level” stories fulfilling…

  • Asmaa Malik, Catherine Wallace, Tyler Nagel and Gavin Adamson discuss source diversity at June conference. Photo courtesy of Abby Plener.

    Researchers urge journalists to examine who gets quoted in news stories

    By Abby Plener for the Local News Conference While the value of different sources can be subjective, newsrooms have a responsibility to interrogate their choices surrounding which voices get the most coverage, researchers agreed at a recent conference on local news. Asmaa Malik, assistant professor at the Ryerson School of Journalism, emphasized that in a fast-paced newsroom,…
  • Game Face: The Media Training Playbook - 19 Cautionary Tales, a self-published book by Toronto public relations consultant and former journalist Bodine Williams. Screenshot by J-Source.

    Journalism, public relations and the author in between

    By Erin Leite     Game Face: The Media Training Playbook - 19 Cautionary Tales, a self-published book by Toronto public relations consultant and former journalist Bodine Williams, brings two seemingly similar but often clashing professions together. It lays out the dos and don’ts of interviewing for the people answering the questions, and has a lot…
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    Journalism students can play a key part in building sustainable journalism models

    By Magda Konieczna Missing from the Shattered Mirror report’s recommendations for Canadian journalism were insights about journalism education. A panel discussion at last week’s Canadian Communication Association conference in Toronto aimed to fill that gap. It also reflected the challenges inherent in teaching journalism against the backdrop of an evolving and struggling industry, something that…
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    Here’s all our coverage from the Local News conference

    Here are all of our live blogs from the Local News conference at Ryerson University in Toronto on June 3-4, 2017. Understanding Local Journalism: An Overview April Lindgren, Colette Brin, Damian Radcliffe and Michelle Ferrier give overviews into their research around local news. Does Local News Matter? Tales From the Trenches James Gordon, Brian Lambie and…