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AI in Canadian newsrooms: what do newsrooms in Canada expect from new hires regarding AI literacy?

AI is certainly on his radar, but Cabin Radio is not hiring specifically for AI skills in the newsroom. This cautious ...
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AI in Canadian newsrooms: media engaging cautiously

Canadian journalism’s AI adoption reveals a patchwork of policies and gaps Newsrooms across Canada are figuring out how to ...
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Over 250 Canadian news media outlets have closed in the last 10 years

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 ...
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Understanding Canada’s new shield law for confidential sources

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 ...
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Crime, coverage and stereotypes: Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood

Is the media's coverage of Jane and Finch disproportionally negative? Eric Mark Do, J-Source's new Students' Lounge editor and Ryerson Journalism student, looks at the media's coverage of crime in the ...
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There are fewer journalists in Canada than 15 years ago — but not as few as you might think

There are fewer journalists in Canada today than 15 years ago — but not as few as you might think, according to data from the 2016 census, the most recent and comprehensive data available. Indeed, ...
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Exposing Abuse Within Canada’s International Student Boom

Walrus journalist Nicholas Hune-Brown retraces the steps that led to his ground-breaking investigation—probing exploitative recruitment practices in Canada’s international education industry while ...
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The resilience of local journalism in a digital age

“We had typewriters in the newsroom, we got press releases and phone calls, you were inundated,” said Julie Cashin-Oster, the owner of the Orono Weekly Times when describing the shift she has seen in ...
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No room for debate

In the early morning hours of June 3, Saskatoon StarPhoenix columnist Phil Tank sat before his computer, a column already written in his head and ready to pour out onto the keyboard. The day before he ...
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Three journalism education lessons from Canada’s first Future of Independent Media Summit

In an OCAD University theatre in downtown Toronto, journalists, publishers and others working in and outside the journalism industry milled around whiteboards, posted neon sticky notes to answer ...
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Transparency and trust: How news consumers in Canada want AI to be used in journalism

When it comes to artificial intelligence and news production, Canadian news consumers want to know when, how and why AI is part of journalistic work. And if they don’t get that transparency, they ...
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A global study on pandemic-era news explores the gap between journalists’ ideals and realities

How does the journalism produced in Canada compare to journalistic ideals and journalism practice the world over? In a first-of-its-kind study in Canada, after poring over thousands of stories, we’re ...