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As the U.S. and its influence on Canada reverse progress made on diversity, equity, inclusion and race, the Reporting in Black Communities project will equip journalists with comprehensive, community-informed tools to create systemic, long-term change to strengthen and educate generations of journalists and Black communities to come Continue Reading Reporting in Black communities: Early findings from focus groups with Black news consumers in four Canadian cities

Researchers are increasingly pushed into public debate, but evidence-sharing can unintentionally deepen pressures on fragile media institutions Continue Reading Academics should engage the public without replacing journalism

How post-secondary newsrooms can contribute to local information ecosystems in communities with weakened traditional media presence Continue Reading Academic news partnerships in local journalism: A literature review

The past two years have seen a record number of media workers killed Continue Reading If killing journalists is a war crime, why isn’t anyone stopping it?

Without systems that allow local news organizations to be transferred, modernized and operated by a new generation of publishers, every conversation about ‘saving local news’ risks becoming little more than nostalgia Continue Reading Everyone wants to save local news. Almost no one will get the chance

On the necessity of valuing the labour of writing Continue Reading In defense of blue-collar creative work

How trust is constructed, negotiated, and withheld in an increasingly chaotic digital information landscape Continue Reading Trust in the Age of Algorithms: How Gen Z Canadians navigate news, skepticism and selective exposure

Vancouver Sun journalist Kim Bolan shares the tradecraft behind Lethal Exports — a five-part investigation exposing Canada’s role in transnational crime and the devastating toll it leaves across continents.
Continue Reading A Ripple across the Pacific: How Canadian meth dealers fuel a transnational crime network

How academic news partnerships can give students experience as newspapers shutter Continue Reading As platforms change, so does the story: why journalism’s future is still bright

Corporate journalism closures left lower mainland communities with a void of local news. A new co-op has stepped up to breach the divide Continue Reading Hollowed out to hyperlocal: Freshet News fills a gap in B.C.’s media landscape 

When a journalist learns that a contract has been put on his head, he has two choices: keep quiet or continue. Daniel Renaud chose to continue his investigative work, staying close to the facts, in a field where the truth can come at a high price Continue Reading Covering organized crime in Quebec: Daniel Renaud, journalist in the line of fire

Lessons from compassionate, trauma-informed coverage of substance use, supervised consumption and community health Continue Reading If they close