How to scale our understanding of local news health
The economics of local news are no small challenge, but soon we may be able to anticipate significant causes of unhealthy news ecosystems in different U.S. cities.
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How do cultural attitudes shape crime reporting?
Researchers to explore differences in European newsrooms in June conference.
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Police practice of withholding crime victims’ names can pose challenges for journalistic credibility
One researcher calls this a “tremendous step back for press freedom” that could put the public at risk.
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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…