review of journalism - The Review of Journalism

An illustration of five Canadian media company logos sitting in a courtroom. The five companies are the Globe and Mail, CBC-Radio, Toronto Star, Postmedia, and The Canadian Press.

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.

Jay Ashdown
February 14, 2025
4 minute read

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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?

Maya Ivancevic
January 31, 2025
3 minute read

System Failure

Accessing government information in Canada is notoriously slow, often serving as more of a hindrance than a help for journalists. But The Globe and Mail’s Secret Canada project might be able to change that by providing a database of requests available to all.

Helen Jacob
May 19, 2024
3 minute read

Clark Kent's office, equipped with a desk, chair, his hat and glasses, a photo of a woman, and his cape.

Superhero, Not so Super Journalist

As we all know, Clark Kent, the hero’s civilian alias, spends his days as a reporter, and his love interest, Lois Lane, is also a journalist. But in a universe populated with aliens and supervillains, how realistic can the journalism be?