A new report has found that 15 per cent of English-speaking Canadians are paying for news in 2024, compared to 11 per cent in 2023. But it is too early to rejoice.
- Professor, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia
Google has secured significant concessions in its deal with Ottawa over Bill C-18, the Online News Act, which comes into effect on Dec. 19.
A series of crises in the Canadian media sector will become a crucial test for what the country’s media landscape could and should look like in the 21st century.
Canada is home to a growing number of new digital-born journalism organizations, even though government policy aimed at helping the news industry has focused mostly on the decline of legacy media.
Co-founders Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida explain how The Conversation Canada contributes to re-working what journalism can and should do.
The US election has highlighted the waning influence of evidence-based journalism.
It has become one of the hallmarks of the news now. Whenever there is a dramatic event, social media instantly comes alive with comment and conjecture as facts vie for attention with fiction. Alongside…
On an overcast afternoon in London in May 2013, an off-duty soldier named Lee Rigby was murdered near his barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. Rigby’s killers were two young British men of Nigerian…
Whatever you do, don’t turn to Twitter for news about Ebola. The volume and tone of tweets and retweets about the disease will make you wish you were watching the zombie apocalypse of The Walking Dead…
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