3 years ago
How Doug Ford is endangering local news ecosystems
Since the Ontario premier announced changes to student fee policies, many have called out the risks for campus media. But weakening student journalism won’t just threaten the schools’ information access
3 years ago
Whitehorse Star cuts print days in anticipation of carbon tax
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The Yukon-based newspaper goes down to three editions per week for the first time since 1985
3 years ago
A fourth-generation newspaper rides the waves of change
Why a 109-year old, family-owned Alberta outlet remains optimistic about the future despite a shifting rural population
3 years ago
Facebook Canada announces $2.5-million investment in Canadian news industry
The social media giant pledges funds to launch a Local News Accelerator
3 years ago
Delivery by the thousands beneath glacier-clad peaks
How a woman from southern Ontario and a man from the Prairies figured out local-news survival in B.C.’s Kootenays
3 years ago
Bail out the journalists, not their bosses
Rather than bolstering the corporations that have decimated Canada’s media ecosystem, the federal tax incentive package should be used to fund journalists’ work
3 years ago
The Journalism Fund Tracker
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The latest news and commentary on the federal government’s $600-million tax package for the Canadian journalism industry
3 years ago
Vanishing City Hall
Dale Bass started her 45-year journalism career in 1973 at the London Free Press. She remembers a bustling newsroom of 185, with two or three city hall reporters. Bass would sometimes be sent to the municipal Committee of Adjustments, which…
3 years ago
Funding journalism means defining who’s a journalist – not a bad thing
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here.
The federal government’s recent announcement of financial support for news organizations has been met with understandably wide-ranging reactions — from relief to skepticism,…
J-Source , led by the journalism programs at Ryerson University (which is currently engaged in a renaming process) 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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