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Here’s how metrics and analytics are changing newsroom practice
There’s an ongoing debate about whether the influence of audience data is good or bad for journalistic practice. But it’s not the audience data that’s an issue – it’s the way they’re used -
Data storytelling in a diversifying field
How data journalism and coding are changing the landscape of investigative journalism -
Crackdown podcast brings listeners to frontlines of drug war
New program aims to change the conversation by focusing on users’ lived experiences. -
It’s a fact
Angie Holan is sitting at her desk, lost in the chatter of the newsroom around her. Phones ringing, keyboards clicking, pens stroking across pieces of paper. It is March 25, 2008, and her thoughts are interrupted by the sound of… -
Top takeaways from NASH 2019
From Jan. 3 to 6, emerging journalists from across the country came together in Calgary, Alta. for NASH, an annual journalism conference hosted this year by the University of Calgary’s student publication the Gauntlet and supported by the Canadian University … -
Canada finally has a source protection law — is it enough?
The importance of press freedom can never be understated. For Canadian journalists, horrific headlines from across the globe of missing, murdered, or imprisoned reporters are sobering reminders of the privilege that we hold. Because our Constitution protects freedom of the… -
A generation of journalists are struggling
Over the last three years, I’ve had some version of this conversation with countless young Canadian journalists. “I’m so anxious right now.” “My work laid off 15 per cent of the staff and I’m really scared I’m next.” “I’m pretty… -
Vanishing City Hall
Dale Bass started her 45-year journalism career in 1973 at the London Free Press. She remembers a bustling newsroom of 185, with two or three city hall reporters. Bass would sometimes be sent to the municipal Committee of Adjustments, which… -
How The Discourse is reinventing the local newspaper to fight polarization
Editor in chief Erin Millar on the setback that caused them to change gears and devote themselves to three communities. -
Building trust at the local level
Community reporters have the opportunity to connect directly with their audiences. But are they earning reader confidence? Canadians aren’t so sure.
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