Maria Meza, a 40-year-old migrant woman from Honduras, runs away from tear gas with her 5-year-old twin daughters in front of the border wall in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Each day, readers are bombarded with shocking, inspiring and informative images. In their overwhelming volume, they can be easily forgotten. Nonetheless, some do rise to the top.
Nearing the end of his second and final term, the founding chair of The Conversation UK considers the role of universities in the news media environment.
The Competition and Consumer Commission is worried about the ability of the platforms we use to determine the news we read.
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Australia might become the first country in the world to submit Google and Facebook’s algorithms to a public interest test.
The Guelph Mercury office in Guelph, Ont., is seen in January 2016 after the final print edition of the newspaper was published. Ottawa has announced initiatives to support local journalism, including a measure to classify nonprofit news organizations as charities, making it easier for them to attract donations.
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Canada has a lot to learn from the U.S. about nonprofit news. Here’s how nonprofit news organizations work in the United States. Spoiler alert: It’s all about collaboration.
WeChat is a Chinese social media platform, similar to Facebook.
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Findings from a new study suggest that the main source of news for Mandarin-speakers living in Australia is local, Chinese-language outlets accessed via WeChat.
From human suffering to political chicanery to environmental degradation, the tide of bad news, blared in headlines every day, seems overwhelming. One poet and classics scholar asks: What can be done?
Barbed wire surrounds the the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.
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It may be because we’re early adopters and know the risks of social media, but a new study has found Australians are particularly careful about expressing political views online.
Nearly 70% of dance professionals are women, but none of Australia’s major dance companies has a female art director.
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In many cases, the mistreatment of TV anchors has become the story – at the expense of bigger questions about corporate ownership.
Sinclair Broadcast Group is under fire, following the spread of a video showing anchors at its stations reading a script criticizing ‘fake’ news stories.
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In a survey of 80 teens and college-aged Americans, most said they’d experienced physical or emotional distress before and after the 2016 presidential election.
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.
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.”
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.