By Marco Navarro-Génie The announced federal government subsidy for “trusted” media outlets risks undermining provincial jurisdictions. The federal lathering of a $595-million subsidy on “trusted”…
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Not diverse enough, a snapshot survey shows by Maria Iqbal in Brampton, ON Three quarters of Brampton’s population are ethnic minorities, but local media has…
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Commentary by Jagdeesh Mann in Vancouver, BC Earlier this year, Rena Heer, a former reporter for CTV and CP24 in Toronto, hosted a gathering at…
View More Sunny Dhillon Quitting Exposes need for Change in Mainstream MediaBy: Irish Mae Sylvestre in Chicago, IL Journalist Manny Mogato is more accustomed to writing news reports than being the subject of the story. Last…
View More 2017 Marshall McLuhan Fellow, Journalist Manny Mogato: Fake news, a Threat to JournalismBy: Dr. Binoy Kampmark in Melbourne, Australia It was never spectacular, but the Australian media scape is set to become duller, more contained, and more…
View More The Demise of Civic Journalism: Australia’s Xenophon-Turnbull DealCommentary by: John Ferri in Toronto The crisis in local journalism is well documented, most extensively in a report last January by the Public Policy Forum, and…
View More New TVO Ontario Hubs might be Model for Supporting Local JournalismCommentary by George Abraham in Ottawa IN the summer of 2015, a roomful of Ottawa folks got together at the National Arts Centre, eager to gain…
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By Our National Correspondent in Ottawa, ON Lucile Davier, currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, has spent many years looking at journalism…
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By Amanda Ghazale Aziz in Toronto, ON When Carleton University asked reporter Judy Trinh to give a talk on diversity in the journalism industry to…
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by Our National Correspondent July 30 marked the 11th anniversary of the Patriotic Vanguard newspaper published from Vancouver. In our continuing effort to profile and…
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