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Lessons from compassionate, trauma-informed coverage of substance use, supervised consumption and community health By: Chloe ...
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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 ...
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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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AI in Canadian newsrooms: media engaging cautiously

In Part 1, we reveal a divide: while major outlets like CBC and The Globe and Mail have established comprehensive AI policies, many smaller newsrooms lack the time and resources to develop them. We ...
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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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Rewriting colonial narratives

This series was funded by readers like you through donations to the J-Source Patreon and FutureFunder at Carleton University. In the summer of 2018, Angela Long embarked on a 22,000-kilometre journey, ...
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Transparency and trust: How news consumers in Canada want AI to be used in journalism

When it comes to artificial intelligence and news production, Canadian news consumers want to know when, how and why AI is part of journalistic work. And if they don’t get that transparency, they ...
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AI in Canadian newsrooms: what do newsrooms in Canada expect from new hires regarding AI literacy?

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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Making it ‘Local’: Community data journalism for health justice

How hyperlocal digital community journalism can offer more relevant and equitable coverage Continue Reading Making it ‘Local’: Community data journalism for health justice This paper reports on a ...
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Exposing Abuse Within Canada’s International Student Boom

Walrus journalist Nicholas Hune-Brown retraces the steps that led to his ground-breaking investigation—probing exploitative recruitment practices in Canada’s international education industry while ...
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The resilience of local journalism in a digital age

“We had typewriters in the newsroom, we got press releases and phone calls, you were inundated,” said Julie Cashin-Oster, the owner of the Orono Weekly Times when describing the shift she has seen in ...