New research by the University of British Columbia and Memorial University on how Canada’s media reports on climate change suggests that our national newspapers – The Globe & Mail and National Post – are failing to provide their readers with a complete picture of global warming and climate change issues in Canada. Tindall, a participant…
Melanie Coulson spent the past four months researching community newsrooms and citizen journalism while a journalist-in-residence as a Michener-Deacon Fellow at Carleton University.
If journalists can’t make the business case for journalism, then who will? Belinda Alzner talks with Canadian Nieman Fellow David Skok about his research on disruption and innovation in journalism with Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen that gives journalists and news managers a new way to look at the challenges facing the industry.
What is the role of a social media editor inside a news organization? New research by University of King’s College online journalism professor Tim Currie sheds some light on the level of integration that Canadian social media editors have in their respective newsrooms, the unique challenges that face them and how they position themselves with their audiences.
A new collection, “Alternative Media in Canada,” is the first to provide an overview of Canadian alternative media practices. Lisa Lynch interviewed David Skinner about the book’s central themes and about the relationship between mainstream and independent journalism in Canada.
Three new international peer-reviewed journals will offer journalism scholars and researchers new venues to publish their work and move discussion and exploration surrounding topics of digital journalism, journalism education, and interdisciplinary studies in communication forward.
Spring is here, and so are Canada’s journalism conferences. Here is a roundup of some of the more promising conferences for journalism researchers.
Canadian study investigates sourcing practices and framing of homelessness in the news. Elyse Amend and David Secko write about the study which considers the power of expert quotes in three Canadian newspapers to frame homelessness.
AMARC – Prof. Vinod Pavarala, Dean, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad has been chosen to be the first ever UNESCO Chair on Community Media. The four-year appointmnent will serve as a knowledge and resource centre for the study and promotion of community media, including such things as community radio, participatory…
Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern’s collection Media Divides: Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada is a series of essays by Canadian media and communications scholars on the past, present and future of Canadian communication rights. Expanding the notion of ‘the right to communicate’ beyond a conversation about freedom of expression, the authors…