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Bridging communities through engaged journalism and storytelling

In a warmly-lit Grade 11 classroom in Kahnawà:ke, two groups of students settle down to work. They scrape chairs across the floor and flip open laptops at tables placed in a large U-shape. Purple and ...
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The newsroom isn’t dead, and new graduates can find jobs — but thriving in this unstable market requires a new perspective

What I learned in my first year out of school Whenever I meet people outside the media industry and tell them I’m a journalist, I’m usually met with the same reaction: “Wow, that’s so cool!” Some tell ...
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Behind the algorithm: How investigative journalists exposed Canada’s listeria oversight failure

When a deadly listeria outbreak swept across Canada in 2024, the initial headlines focused on recalls and rising case counts. But for The Globe and Mail journalists Grant Robertson and Kathryn Blaze ...
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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 ...
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Reporting in Black communities: Early findings from focus groups with Black news consumers in four Canadian cities

As the U.S. and its influence on Canada reverse progress made on diversity, equity, inclusion and race, the Reporting in Black Communities project will equip journalists with comprehensive, ...
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Academics should engage the public without replacing journalism

Over the past couple of years, I have begun writing more regularly for public audiences – primarily short op-eds based on my research on child development, trauma and youth well-being – to help inform ...
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Academic news partnerships in local journalism: A literature review

How post-secondary newsrooms can contribute to local information ecosystems in communities with weakened traditional media presence This literature review investigates the potential of college and ...
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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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Everyone wants to save local news. Almost no one will get the chance

Without systems that allow local news organizations to be transferred, modernized and operated by a new generation of publishers, every conversation about ‘saving local news’ risks becoming little ...
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In defense of blue-collar creative work

When I started my Master of Fine Arts in the summer of 2023, AI was creeping into more of our lives. I get the fascination of bringing ideas to life with ChatGPT or Claude, in a way—It’s playing God ...
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Trust in the Age of Algorithms: How Gen Z Canadians navigate news, skepticism and selective exposure

How trust is constructed, negotiated and withheld in an increasingly chaotic digital information landscape News consumption and trust are shifting across generations as the structures of media ...
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A Ripple across the Pacific: How Canadian meth dealers fuel a transnational crime network

Vancouver Sun journalist Kim Bolan shares the tradecraft behind Lethal Exports — a five-part investigation exposing Canada’s role in transnational crime and the devastating toll it leaves across ...