The Not-So-Subtle Price of Writing in the Passive Voice

How media framing through linguistics perpetuates biases in coverage of the Israel-Gaza…
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What Type of Journalist Would You Be In the Apocalypse?

The world has officially gone to hell—whether it’s zombies, climate catastrophe, nuclear war, artificial intelligence, robots, or just late-stage capitalism finally collapsing in on itself. But guess what? Journalism never dies. The people need information more than ever, and it’s your duty to get out there and tell the story.
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Big Tech, Big Lawsuit

“Big tech, again and again, shows itself to be an industry that moves with entitlement and lack of care,” wrote author Michael Melgaard in a contribution for The Walrus in 2023. Not long before the magazine’s interviews with Melgaard and other Canadian writers, The Atlantic’s Alex Reisner had exposed the contents of Books3, a text database used to train LLaMA, Meta’s large language model (LLM) for AI-generated text.
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In the Year 2025…

Journalism is facing a tough choice: evolve or die. Journalism has always thrived on asking tough questions, so here’s one for the industry itself: What should we do better this year?

The New Season

To survive, fashion magazines have embraced digital media and diversity Nicola Hamilton…
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Ad Nauseam

People now consume journalism from a variety of digital platforms, which means consuming a variety of ads from multiple venues. To combat overwhelming consumers, media companies have begun to diversify their advertising strategies.
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Good as Newsletter

Amid the instability of social media, email newsletters are back and booming…

See No Innocence

Wrongful conviction reporting used to be a staple beat for papers. Now…

Pressing Saudades

O Jornal de Toronto united the city’s Brazilian diaspora. As the paper…