11 months ago
New campus-industry startup will generate local stories, build students’ data journalism skills
Story template automatically populated with data for various communities to be shared through Canadian Press wire
12 months ago
How journalists informed audiences in a data-filled era
The pandemic has shown the value of a data-literate news media
1 year ago
How AI is helping newsrooms identify biases, automate multi-platform visual media and accelerate data journalism
Advances in tech are helping small newsrooms take on big investigations
2 years ago
Digital journalism innovations on the pandemic beat
Explanatory reporting, drone journalism and VR help tell the story of the COVID-19 era
2 years ago
J-schools lag behind in teaching prized data journalism skills
Professors tend to believe their students don’t want to do math. As a result, more frequently used tools like social media are emphasized, leaving new reporters behind on complex analysis tasks valued (if underutilized) by newsrooms
2 years ago
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
3 years ago
Humber’s storyLAB and Pulitzer Center partner on data journalism grant
$10,000 will be awarded to a freelance journalist or team to undertake data journalism project on Indigenous land rights
4 years ago
Data storytelling in a diversifying field
How data journalism and coding are changing the landscape of investigative journalism
4 years ago
There are fewer journalists in Canada than 15 years ago — but not as few as you might think
Statistics Canada data shows that between 2001 and 2016 the total number of journalists in the country declined by only 7 percent - and it looks like hiring is starting to inch upwards again.
J-Source, led by the journalism programs at Toronto Metropolitan University and Carleton University, is supported by the post-secondary journalism programs at member institutions of J-Schools Canada/Écoles-J Canada, the R. Howard Webster Foundation and a group of donors.
French-language publication Projet J, hosted by J-Source, is led by the journalism program at the Université du Québec à Montréal and funded by a group of donors.
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