Tag / COVID-19
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Les guerriers de données de la pandémie
Par Irene Ruby Pratka Flashback, avril 2020. Des files d’attente se formaient devant les épiceries. Des milliers de Québécois suivaient religieusement les fluctuations du nombre des cas de COVID-19. Entre deux conférences de presse, on se distrayait comme on pouvait,… -
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Une étude sur les nouvelles en pandémie explore le fossé entre les idéaux des journalistes et les réalités
par Nicole Blanchett et Anna Maria Moubayed Comment le journalisme produit au Canada se compare-t-il aux idéaux du métier et aux pratiques journalistiques du monde entier ? Dans le cadre d’une étude unique en son genre au Canada, après avoir… -
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The Urgent Need to Know: Science and Science Communication in the COVID-19 Era
On Friday, January 20th from 4:00-5:00pm, hear from an expert panel on The Urgent Need to Know: Science and Science Communication in the COVID-19 Era. -
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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 -
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Review: Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic By Nora Loreto (Fernwood Publishing, 2021) Review by Adrian Ma Toward the end of 2020, the editors of the popular website Dictionary.com hosted a “People’s Choice” survey to identify the… -
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Preprints, COVID-19 and a ‘paradigm shift’ in science journalism
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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 -
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CBC Ombudsperson: Science and nuance
My latest review examines how CBC covered the debate about the primary way COVID-19 is spread: airborne, or via respiratory droplets? One particular story last spring said that Canadian scientist Dr. John Conly was “under fire” by other researchers, and a number of that scientist’s colleagues complained that the public broadcaster was guilty of “character assassination”. -
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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 -
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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
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