Tag / History
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Toronto Stories Live
Join Myseum of Toronto for an evening of storytelling that explores overlooked, unseen, and forgotten stories in Toronto’s history. -
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The news industry has always needed government support: A look back to the 1800s
It turns out that newspapers in the 1830s had extensive government support. -
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New York Times Canadian photo archive a rich resource for journalism researchers
Collection of photos dating from about 1910 until 1990 includes images of major Canadian political events and conflicts -
![A guessing contest in The San Francisco Examiner on Sept. 29, 1895. Image courtesy of Paul Moore.]()
Audience engagement efforts aren’t new – they’re just different these days, sociology professor argues
By Jasmine Bala for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre Building audience engagement has long been a newsroom preoccupation, only today it involves Instagram and Facebook, while in the past publishers seduced readers with paper cut-out toys and thrilling accounts of… -
![Should there be a policy response to the decline of newspapers in Canada? Image courtesy Steve Harris/CC BY 2.0.]()
Democracy and the decline of newspapers
By Dale Eisler, Senior Policy Fellow, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy In the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that if the choice were government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, he would choose the latter. Today, almost…
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