Facts and Frictions, the academic, peer-reviewed journal about journalism supported by J-Schools Canada/Écoles-J Canada and ...

The economic downturn hurt the Carleton Free Press, a feisty weekly from Woodstock, NB, which tried to take on the Irving-owned newspaper, but lasted only one year… The economic downturn hurt the ...

Canadian newsrooms and media coverage are not truly representative of our country’s racial diversity. We acknowledge that journalism outlets have made efforts to address this worrying gap, but glaring ...

Over the last 10 years, the number of media outlets in Canada has dwindled — and not enough new media outlets have sprung up to replace them. According to data collected by the Local News Research ...

Generative artificial intelligence has taken off at lightning speed in the past couple of years, creating disruption in many industries. Newsrooms are no exception. A new report finds that news ...

Recent years have not been kind to journalism. In Canada, there are numerous examples of reduced work schedules and publication closures, along with other signs of decline. The latest round of job ...

Earlier this month, J-Schools Canada/Écoles-J Canada announced the recipients of its inaugural 2025 Canadian Student Journalism Awards, recognizing excellence, innovation and leadership among emerging ...

On Aug. 11, 2022, a group of journalists broke journalism’s well-accepted (though criticizable) golden rule: do not publicly do activism. The cause was important, though. After a few weeks of ...

Independent journalist and author Nora Loreto has been collecting COVID-19 mortality data since around mid-April, 2020. Through daily tracking — scanning media reports and obituaries across the ...

Gabrielle Pyska, Eric Tanner and Ethan Ward are hosts and producers of the Canadian Mountain Podcast, a joint project with the Canadian Mountain Network and Mount Royal University’s Community Podcast ...

Canada has a new law that offers significantly enhanced protections to reporters’ confidential sources and recognizes the societal value in protecting the journalist-source relationship. It’s hard to ...

The Scadding Court Community Centre in Toronto’s Alexandra Park neighbourhood is unmissable. With red detailing and a blocky structure, it stands out amongst the towering apartment buildings, greenery ...