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July 5, 2022February 8, 2024Politics, Business, and The Law, Quick Reads, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

Total System Overhaul

Big tech companies can be as powerful as governments. But will major Canadian newspapers hold them accountable?

July 1, 2022February 8, 2024Long Reads, Politics, Business, and The Law, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

Post Mortem

The inside story of how five racialized reporters’ anger over a Rex Murphy column led to the unionization of Canada’s most conservative national daily newspaper

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June 29, 2022February 8, 2024Long Reads, Multimedia, Politics, Business, and The Law, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

COVID Crackdown

Pandemic measures in South Africa are impacting press freedoms and revealing a threatening relationship between the police and the press

"When I finally started having access to media, I was like, 'Holy, this is what people thing about us,' and I started believing that about my people. I started believing things that weren't true about my own people, and so you have to almost go back as an adult and heal those misunderstanding and understand where it actually came from." Kelsie Kilawna IndigiNews cultural editor, senior aunty and storyteller

June 27, 2022February 8, 2024Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Long Reads, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

Fractured Relationships

More work still needs to be done by journalists in Canada to accurately report on diverse communities

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June 23, 2022February 8, 2024Covering the Beats, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

Death of the Scathing Review?

How music journalists are shifting from critics to curators

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June 21, 2022February 8, 2024Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Indigenous issues, Long Reads, Multimedia, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

Missing, Murdered and the Media

Why journalists must cover Indigenous stories better

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June 17, 2022February 8, 2024Covering the Media, Long Reads, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

Forced Out

Refugee coverage is too often incomplete, exclusionary, and stereotypical. The 80 million displaced people around the world deserve better

June 15, 2022February 8, 2024Covering the Media, Long Reads, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

CBC’s Palestine Exception

Behind-the-scene accounts from current and former CBC staff raise concerns about transparency, bias, and fear when pitching about the region

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June 13, 2022February 8, 2024Covering the Beats, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

A Deeper Dish

Food journalists have failed to incorporate the culture behind each bite – but a few trailblazers are giving readers the full plate

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June 9, 2022February 8, 2024Covering the Media, Long Reads, Multimedia, Spring 2022, Stories, The Magazine, Top Story

Behind Campus Walls

Why it’s time to learn from student media when it comes to sexual assault coverage