All J-Source’s coverage from #CAJ17
Here’s all of our liveblogs from the 2017 Canadian Association of Journalists conference in Ottawa.
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Live Blog: The Public Broadcaster’s Dilemma
In an increasingly fractured, crowded and competitive media environment, what is the role of the public broadcaster when it comes to news?
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New regulations could change how Canadian journalists can use drones
Currently, reporters using drones are covered by commercial drone-user regulations, which are slightly more stringent than recreational drone rules.
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Audience engagement efforts aren’t new – they’re just different these days, sociology professor argues
By Jasmine Bala for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre Building audience engagement has long been a newsroom preoccupation, only today it involves Instagram and Facebook, while in the past publishers seduced readers with paper cut-out toys and thrilling accounts of reporters on around-the-world races against time. New research on the history of Sunday newspapers by…
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What’s missing in Canadian journalism?
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor When David Topping set out to take the pulse of Canadian journalism, he was hoping it might help him shape something new—a project, or a product. In early January, Topping, the digital strategy and product manager for Toronto Life, 12:36 and Torontoist, started promoting a survey of his own creation…
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What do journalists think about journalists?
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Journalists are always hardest on themselves. A new survey of over 1,550 North American journalists has found that over 90 per cent believe the media is “somewhat or much less” trusted by the public compared to three years ago. The State of the Media report, completed by Cision, a Canadian…
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Updated columnist diversity survey shows representation has not improved since 2014
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign By Dylan C. Robertson Data collected late last year suggests Canada’s columns have grown even more unrepresentative since a similar 2014 J-Source columnists survey. Canada’s news and general interest columnists are overwhelmingly male, white, straight and middle aged, according to a J-Source survey of 125 columnists. “The…
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News needs of smaller communities require special attention, researcher says
By Steph Wechsler for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre The ongoing discussion about the state of Canadian news media tends to overlook what’s happening in smaller communities, local news advocate Robert Washburn said during a recent presentation at the Ryerson School of Journalism. Community-based newsrooms, including local television and community-run radio stations, are deeply rooted…
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Journalists grapple with online unpublishing and the “right to be forgotten”
The European Court of Justice’s 2014 ruling on the “right to be forgotten” doesn’t just affect search engines, it also has implications for journalists.
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Canadian youth use social media as gateway to mainstream media, new study finds
Social media is typically just the starting point when it comes to millenial news consumption habits.