Tag / COVID-19
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Canada’s dismal data climate
Missing stats imperil our ability to communicate health risks for the pre-existing global crisis. Here’s what we can learn from coverage of COVID-19 -
Collaborative Podcasting While Physical Distancing
We are living in an unprecedented time where we are being asked to isolate ourselves during the pandemic. This has been challenging and stressful for many, but has also given us some stillness to reflect on things that matter most… -
Memo: Postmedia closing 15 community newspapers, announces permanent and temporary layoffs
Eighty staff laid off in sales and shuttered community outlets -
Covering COVID-19: Award-winning health journalist André Picard on the pandemic
When Globe and Mail columnist André Picard speaks, Canadians pay attention. He is our country’s pre-eminent health journalist, named Canada’s first “Public Health Hero” in 2011 by the Canadian Public Health Association. -
Journalism in the Time of Crisis
is an international symposium to be hosted online this Oct. 22-23 by the Journalism program at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication. We will engage with a global network of experts to examine the nexus between journalism and the COVID-19 pandemic to find lessons for journalism practice and study in the future. -
GIJN Webinar — Staying Safe: How to Report a Pandemic
In a global crisis like this, journalists play a critical role: they inform the public and they monitor and report abuses of power by officials. But how can they do this when they’re dealing with psychological stress and threats to their own health and safety? -
Data collective ‘Project Pandemic’ launches to help local newsrooms explore COVID-19’s impact across Canada
National collaboration of news organizations and journalism schools undertakes “wartime effort” to map novel coronavirus data in the public interest -
Memo: The Canadian Press and COVID-19
The Canadian wire “not optimistic” it will qualify for federal business assistance measures, seeking alternative initiatives from provincial and federal governments as cash flow tightens -
Information Saves Lives: Verifying Online Information Webinar
People in Canada are bombarded with information 24/7, much of which is consumed online. It is vital that the public is able to critically assess and recognize misinformation and disinformation online, and avoid online manipulation, especially today with the COVID-19…
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