• Shrinkhala Dawadi co-wrote and broke a story about an incident of physical assault at McGill, where administration did not sanction the perpetrator even after he was arrested and charged with assault causing bodily harm. Screenshot by J-Source.

    Student media is at the forefront of reporting on sexual assault on campus

    This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Shrinkhala Dawadi In recent years, several instances of sexual assault and gendered violence at universities have caused public concern , and much of the initial reporting on these stories were conducted by the student media. Sebastian Leck broke a story in the Queen’s Journal about the…

  • Student journalism can help save our news media ecosystem

    By Errol Salamon for Policy Options While the idea of a journalism crisis isn’t new, the perpetuation of fake news during the 2016 US presidential election, arguably, has intensified the crisis and the threat to the democratic and civic function of journalism. “Truly fake news is like counterfeit money — it has been manufactured for…