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Ethnographic reporting meets engaged journalism and offers untapped resources

This research note presents findings from a literature review examining the relationship between engaged journalism and ...
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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 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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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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New study launching of how journalists do their jobs

How journalistic roles are performed in Canada is a topic of hot debate, encompassing everything from coverage of Gaza to crime statistics. Such debate is happening in a journalism landscape where ...
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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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A view from Inukjuak: Engagement journalism with Indigenous partners

The Flowing River documentary explores both the run-of-river hydro project that now powers the village of Inukjuak in Nunavik, and the relational flow of journalism that emerges from reciprocity with ...
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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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New resource delivers practical tools for reporting through a gender lens

When I read this headline in the newspaper that published my weekly column years ago, I wondered why it was news: Didn’t everyone already know that women were only paid 76 cents on the dollar? But ...
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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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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 ...