The free, online guide developed by Informed Opinions includes short lessons on intersectionality, trauma-informed reporting and reporting on people in situations of vulnerability Continue Reading New resource delivers practical tools for reporting through a gender lens
So far, focused, sustained attention on diversity in sourcing leads to results. Continue Reading How tracking can improve gender representation in sourcing from j-school to the newsroom
Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University and Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Simon Fraser University “I believe that all voices are equal and deserving of equal respect.” That’s what Siri responds when asked if she is a feminist. We share Siri’s sentiment. That’s why, using computational linguistics — the technology behind voice-activated assistants — we’ve created the Gender…
The results of this survey will provide crucial information about representation in newsrooms. Continue Reading Take the J-Source survey on gender diversity in Canadian news media
Newsrooms are more – but not fully – equal. Continue Reading Women journalists and the glass ceiling
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign By Michael Ott “We couldn’t find any expert women,” cannot be an excuse. That’s the mantra of a new website dedicated to amplifying women’s voices in Canadian news media. Expertwomen.ca seeks to create a database of women from across the country who are experts in their fields.…
It is not just Internet trolls. These days, it is often not safe for women to speak up anywhere – online, on air and in print.
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign By Tamsyn Burgmann Bhumika Shrestha gazes ahead with attentive eyes, shifts in her seat and awaits the first question: “Did you always know you are transgender?” She takes in the question for a moment, and then replies, that she was born a boy but has behaved “girly”…
By Sydney Jones for The Signal On the morning of Halloween, 2014, adults disguised as ghouls and witches carried briefcases and purses as they walked to work, crunching across the leaves in front of Stephanie Domet’s house. Normally by this hour on a Friday the CBC Radio Mainstreet host would be getting ready for work,…
By Allison Ridgway and Ania Bessonov The Canadian Press (CP) is discussing how to update its stylebook to reflect changing language surrounding LGBTQ, Indigenous and disabled communities, CP’s editor-in-chief said during a Ryerson Journalism Research Centre panel earlier this month. But the national news agency must keep its clients and readers in mind when contemplating such changes,…