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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.
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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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Canadian Media Guild data shows 10,000 job losses in past five years

The print sector lost nearly twice that of the broadcast sector—6,000 jobs versus 3,700, according to the Canadian Media Guild's preliminary data. Jan Wong summarizes all the recent cuts, cost-saving ...
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The trucker convoy provides a case study in online threats and IRL harms

For Toronto Star reporter Raisa Patel, covering the Ottawa blockade meant “getting blowback on the streets and online at the same time.” Patel uses Twitter to share her stories, images, footage of ...
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Six weeks undercover: Investigative lessons from the Toronto Star’s probe into Uber’s algorithm

Journalist Ghada Alsharif worked undercover as an Uber Eats courier in Toronto to expose the harsh realities of algorithm-driven gig work, revealing shockingly low wages and systemic inequities ...
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Shift happens — A media guide for journalists covering the Downtown Eastside

Trust in journalism is eroding worldwide, with fewer people believing the news they consume. According to the Reuters Digital News Report 2024, only 40 per cent of people globally say they trust “most ...
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We cannot continue to ignore the Toronto Sun’s toxic output

Is there any accountability in Canadian media for those who fan the flames of anti-Muslim and anti-immigration sentiment? That question has been on my mind in recent days after a hotel in Toronto ...
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I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous

It was cute. But it was still a lie. Gemini invented a news outlet that doesn’t exist and named it fake-example.ca (or exemplefictif.ca, in French). The generative AI system offered by Google led its ...
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Women journalists and the glass ceiling

Linda Kay was the first woman sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune, in the 1980s. She considered herself a pioneer at the time. But years later, when she became a professor in Montreal, she began ...
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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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How They Did It: Chris Arsenault on unraveling an oil deal — from Guyana’s offshore blocks to a home in Ontario’s cottage country

A flagged footnote, an anonymous tip, and the question of whether Guyana’s oil boom could escape the ‘black gold curse’ led journalist Chris Arsenault to Georgetown—where he uncovered how a Canadian ...
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Roles, values and qualifications in transition

There was a time when reporters could work their way to the top of their profession without formal journalism schooling — or without any post-secondary schooling at all — given the longstanding on-the ...