Tag / COVID-19
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Journalism, vicarious trauma and the view from Portapique
A year after covering a massacre, 13 months of a pandemic and managing the uncertainty around employment in the field has taken a toll, one I didn’t know I had signed up for as a local news reporter -
Obits evolve with digital mourning
The professional craft of obituary writing has been disappearing with newspapers' decline. But in the wake of public health crises, large scale commemorative projects are reviving the medium -
Suspending freedom of information cannot be made permanent
Canadian authorities have been using the pandemic to further slow access requests since last March. But transparency and essential rights are not something you can put on hold -
What COVID-19 teaches us about the divide between mainstream and multilingual media
A five-part research series by New Canadian Media unpacks the impacts of ethnic media’s pandemic coverage for multilingual communities. Here’s how we did it -
COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Estevan Mercury
This post is part of the COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada, a joint initiative of J-Source, the Local News Research Project at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Canadian Association of Journalists. -
Survey: recent journalism grads working at weekly newspapers hit hardest by pandemic
New journalists find communities engaged with COVID-19 news, but important stories unrelated to pandemic going uncovered -
EPIB-641 Epidemiology 101 for Journalists
This short, online course will introduce epidemiologic concepts to health/science journalists. -
Photographing beyond ‘needle-in-puddle’
With so many crises making news these days, we see a rise in harmful imagery. A journalist considers the result -
Follow the Money: Into the Nursing Home Complex
Zaid Noorsumar investigates how long-term care coverage missed the warning signs of a system in crisis -
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?
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