1 month ago
Pandemic field notes from small market media
Low pay, high demands, racism and isolation go with reporting jobs in smaller and rural markets. The conditions raise questions about how to keep local news alive and attract the journalists needed to report it
2 months ago
A journalist’s take on reporting with unreliable narrators
What investigating gambling taught me about accurately bridging gaps between perception and reality
10 months ago
The trucker convoy provides a case study in online threats and IRL harms
Journalists’ experiences of online threats during the blockade offer insights into how virtual abuse spills offline and how newsrooms should be planning ahead
10 months ago
Reflections on a year of the Fraser Valley Current
Starting a new enterprise is always a gamble. It’s a bet on yourself, on those who will help you, and on your audience. Managing editor Tyler Olsen breaks down what The Current's learned after Year One
11 months ago
Online violence is ‘death by a thousand cuts,’ especially for women, LGBTQ2+ and racialized journalists, and COVID-19 has increased the toxicity. How can Canadian newsrooms better respond?
Journalists have to put in countless unpaid hours to manage the disproportionate burden of existing online. While the pandemic has intensified the issue, newsroom and platform responses are still playing catch-up
11 months ago
How newsrooms are ramping up safety measures amid a rise in physical threats
Risk planning, hostile environment training and knowing when to step back are some ways workers are going to need to prepare to report in 2022, say experts
11 months ago
Inside media’s coverage of the trucker blockade
Journalists faced a torrent of abuse, harassment and threats during anti-mandate protesters’ weeks-long occupation of Ottawa. Here’s how media workers navigated reporting in the field
12 months ago
Bridging disciplines in the explanatory journalism boom
Experts on everything from epidemiology to their own neighbourhoods are needed in public discourse more than ever. Here’s why media and subject matter specialists should work together
1 year ago
Black in the jury box: Media is the message
Crime reporting is one of the oldest forms of journalism. It tells us who should be feared and who should be punished for tearing the social fabric. But its often sensational approach has consequences
1 year ago
The HuffPost Canada union is dead. Long live the HuffPost Canada union
The workers of HuffPost Canada got to have a union for two weeks, but its impact will last a lifetime
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