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From the East: Challenges and opportunities facing Black-owned media in Atlantic Canada

Digital reach not enough to stop five Black-owned publications from going offline. Black-owned publications have been ...
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Independent media grapple with how — and if — to apply AI

Large publishers have the resources and power to use new tools while fighting tech companies on overreach. For Canada’s ...
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HonestReporting Canada’s targeted harassment machine

A self-professed media watchdog has been weaponizing antisemitism and trying to poison journalistic standards on covering Palestine. Media workers on the perils of the relentless intimidation and ...
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The case of two Calgary newspapers

When Postmedia bought Sun Media in 2014, it gained control of competing daily newspapers in Ottawa, Calgary, and Edmonton. Postmedia already owned the Calgary Herald and now controlled the Calgary Sun ...
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The Journalism Fund Tracker

A close read of the details of the federal Liberals’ plan to boost the Canadian news media industry reveals an approach that favours legacy media and may leave some of the country’s scrappiest and ...
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Mapping the tradecraft behind the investigation that saved Ontario’s Greenbelt

Journalists don’t always land the coup de grâce with their first report. Investigations often go the distance — round after round — piling up evidence until those in power can no longer sidestep the ...
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First batch of Google’s $100 million is paid. Here’s who won big and who didn’t

Every two weeks starting April 30, newsrooms across Canada are receiving cheques in the mail with their share of the $100 million paid by Google as a result of the Online News Act. The group in charge ...
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AI in Canadian newsrooms: media engaging cautiously

Newsrooms across Canada are figuring out how to use AI, and that leaves journalism educators with a challenge: how to teach students about AI when the industry itself is still working it out. To ...
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CBC’s new parliamentary bureau chief Rob Russo explains what you can expect from him and his team

The unparalleled reach and impact of CBC News brings with it the sobering realization that a mistake could move markets and mar lives, writes CBC's newly appointed parliamentary bureau chief Rob Russo ...
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If killing journalists is a war crime, why isn’t anyone stopping it?

The past two years have seen a record number of media workers killed In April 22, Amal Khalil, a journalist for Lebanese outlet Al-Akhbar, was killed after an Israeli airstrike targeted a house in ...
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When not to publish graphic images

I regularly advocate for journalists to tell stories they see as newsworthy in the manner they see fit, because a key element of the journalistic skill set is the ability to determine news value.
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Care, connection and a nascent understanding of engaged journalism practices and pedagogies in Canada

This special issue on engaged journalism comes out of an inkling and an observation: we had a glimmering sense that across Canada, journalists and news organizations were enacting new ways of engaging ...