Toronto Star, NIA and TMU journalism initiative will name fellow and five prize recipients for one-year journalism projects on aging Continue Reading New Journalism in Ageing fellowship open for submissions
‘More [important] than the tools is the willingness to change and learn and pick up a new platform’ Continue Reading How the Toronto Star used TikTok to cover the election
‘This role will provide a safe place for BIPOC journalists and all journalists to express editorial-related discrimination and bias concerns if they don’t feel comfortable bringing it to their manager directly.’ Continue Reading Memo: Shree Paradkar named ‘first internal ombud’ at the Toronto Star
Toronto Star editor Irene Gentle on lifting the paywall on public service coverage Continue Reading Toronto Star editor: Why we’re offering free digital access to essential coronavirus information
As original coverage is increasingly replaced with U.S. wire copy, gaps in local cultural reporting belie a worrying trend Continue Reading What happened to the Toronto Star’s arts section?
As newsrooms shrink across the country, editors are seeking a balance between keeping up with daily demands and developing areas of expertise Continue Reading How beat reporting in 2019 works at 3 different-sized outlets across Canada
When Maria Ressa learned, via Twitter, that she was among the group of journalists Time magazine recognized as “Person of the Year” — “Guardians” in the “war on truth” — her immediate thought was sobering, indeed. Continue Reading Toronto Star public editor: Filipino journalist Maria Ressa’s powerful defence of truth is truly inspiring
Living in the eye of a global media storm of coverage of an alleged serial killer for the past year, Karen Fraser has learned more than she ever could have imagined about today’s journalists and how they work. Continue Reading Toronto Star Public Editor: Lessons from the eye of a global media storm
It is not news to tell you we are in the midst of a global crisis in media trust. While I find some consolation in the fact that recent studies tell us that Canadians trust their news more than do news consumers in other parts of the world, the overall data on trust in journalism…
Conflicts, coups and catastrophes: These are the stories Canadians are most often told about the world beyond our borders. Media coverage of international affairs has long been driven by dramatic breaking news events while deep reporting on the ongoing issues affecting the developing world has been as scarce as the GDP of some of the…