I am conducting a research study to learn about the on-the-job experiences of LGBTQ2+ journalists who work in Canada. I’m trying to reach as large and diverse a pool of participants as possible and hope that you will share this invitation with anyone you know who might be interested in…
Category: Journalism
The ethics of remote sports reporting
It’s not often that I’m asked to speak about sports journalism, so I enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Gregory Strong, of The Canadian Press, about the ethical implications of remote sports reporting. You can read the story here. For obvious reasons, this kind of reporting became the norm during…
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My new textbook: News Writing and Reporting
The timing couldn’t have been better. I came home from my last class of the fall semester to find a box full of the first editions of my new textbook, News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory, published by Oxford University Press. There’s nothing like the feeling…
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Media whining or democratic crisis?
In 2012, I began a small research project that examined how journalists at national newspapers wrote about the challenges they faced in getting information out of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. By that point, it was clear that Harper and his cabinet had little time for reporters — they granted few…
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J-Source comes of age
When I was invited to become the editor-in-chief of J-Source almost three years ago, it was to help shepherd the site through a period I’ve come to think of as its late adolescence and early adulthood. After all, the site was about to leave its place of birth, the Canadian…