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Keeping track of who’s tracking you

Journalists are working the privacy beat
What’s plaguing Toronto’s ethnic press?

In a city of immigrants, non-English language newspapers play a critical role in the fight against COVID-19. Can they survive the pandemic?
Recent arrests of journalists covering land disputes accelerate concerns around police attempts to define, obstruct journalism

Journalists must be present to bear witness to police actions, especially at Indigenous movements, say panelists
APTN partners with 5 news organizations and networks to produce global Indigenous reporting project

Anti-Indigenous handbook aims to investigate groups that work against Indigenous rights
Meet the high school journalists who kept publishing in a pandemic

Ontario students on making sure the campus presses kept rolling, bringing youth voices to community journalism and striking out on their own
Missing voices

Highly skilled reporters from across the world exiled in Canada rarely find employment in the country’s newsrooms. The RRJ’s Neha Chollangi on the rich journalistic experience that media organizations lose when they don’t carve out space for newcomers’ expertise
Student consortium continues to tackle public health through national data collaboration

Now mapping pandemic impacts across Canada, the IIJ continues to rack up accolades for public interest data journalism
From CBC to NHK

Can public broadcaster partnerships fill coverage gaps as international bureaus continue to disappear?
In times of protest and pandemic, queer journalism is vital

The RRJ’s Sean Young reports on new editorial directions at Xtra, while the publication reacts to a pandemic and police brutality protests in ways only queer community journalism can
What does the past, present and future look like in unprecedented times?

The RRJ’s 2020 editor on what a print magazine on the state of journalism conceived pre-COVID can still tell us about how to move forward