Red Deer, a city of about 100,000, isn’t the only place in the country where the crisis in local journalism is reshaping political coverage in advance of the October 21 federal election
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Three quarters of Brampton’s population are ethnic minorities, but local media has yet to catch up. A recent survey of diversity in Brampton newsrooms shows…
View More How Diverse Are Brampton Newsrooms?To improve newsroom diversity, La Presse recruited outside of francophone journalism schools. An office’s group shot usually exudes pride, but this one caused embarrassment. In…
View More Why La Presse Started an Internship Geared Towards Minority Reporters and First Nations PeoplesThe crisis in local journalism is well documented, most extensively in a report last January by the Public Policy Forum, and by others who have painted in…
View More New TVO Ontario Hubs might be Model for Supporting Local Journalismby Chantal Braganza, Associate Editor for J-Source In the early ’90s, Ryerson University professor emeritus John Miller conducted a study on the visual representation of…
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