Established media organisations are collaborating across borders and with new media to break big stories such as global tax avoidance by the rich and powerful.
Why has B.C. become home to Canada’s most vibrant news ecosystem? Credit the wellspring of creativity here — the province’s beauty and potential has long attracted change-makers.
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A good news story about the news? It’s true. In British Columbia, a digital news ecology is flowering through ‘coopetition’ – as Media Democracy Day will soon showcase.
Ian Hanomansing, left, and Adrienne Arsenault are part of a new four-person anchor format that will be used by The National newscast on CBC.
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The CBC has unveiled its revamped flagship news show, “The National,” with a brand new four-anchor format. The role of the news anchor has changed dramatically over the last 20 years.
A new study explores the state of an industry that’s tapping creative revenue streams and incorporating new tools to engage with readers.
A unique collaborative journalism project revealed industry and government officials in Saskatchewan were aware of significant public safety hazards from potentially deadly hydrogen sulphide gas.
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Canadian newspapers are in trouble, and there are no philanthropic efforts afoot to rescue them. The National Student Investigative Reporting Network, or NSIRN, is aiming to make a difference.
Heritage Minister Melanie Joly recently announced a new policy for Canada’s cultural and creative industries competing in a digital world, but it offers little help for organizations that produce serious journalism.
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The Canadian news industry is in a crisis. Rather than providing a way forward, the Liberal government suggests that Facebook, Twitter, and Google will “jumpstart digital news innovation.”
Trees burn in the High Park wildfire near Fort Collins, Colorado, June 17, 2012.
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Much disaster reporting simply chronicles events, but good journalism digs deeper and examines causes. Stories about Colorado wildfires have raised questions about risk, especially on fire anniversaries.
A couple watch film footage of the Vietnam war on a television in their living room.
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After footage from America’s first ‘living room war’ shocked the public, the government would clamp down on media coverage of future military conflicts.
Marines help the wounded man to an evacuation helicopter near Van Tuong,1965.
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Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, State University of New York
Is there honor in a losing battle? The US military faced this question in Vietnam. Its response would eventually change how the media covered war and how Americans perceive it.
A recent research project about the 2015 Canadian election showed social media is no substitute for local news coverage.
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Local news is as important to communities as clean air, but the failing business model of traditional journalism has left the local news industry in rapid decline.
The government on Wednesday finally clinched a deal with the crossbench Nick Xenophon Team.
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Australian news editors and politicians give their views on the ethical issues arising when reporters return to journalism after time as a political spin doctor.
After Charlottesville, journalists need to ask themselves whether they’re OK with doxing.
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Doxing challenges traditional journalism. Its investigative role is circumvented by people disclosing information online quickly, and often inaccurately.
‘Mad as hell and not gonna take it any more.’
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Eleven years after its release, An Inconvenient Truth, the iconic climate documentary, has spawned a sequel. But did the original do more harm than good by polarizing Americans on climate change?