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Search ArticlesBridging communities through engaged journalism and storytelling
The Concordia University-Kahnawà:ke Survival School collaboration In a warmly-lit Grade 11 classroom in Kahnawà:ke, two groups of students settle down to work. They scrape chairs across the floor and flip open laptops at tables placed in a large U-shape. Purple and white flags representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Two-Row Wampum hang on the wall, beside a poster showing men wearing traditional feathered headpieces known as Kastowas.
The newsroom isn’t dead, and new graduates can find jobs — but thriving in this unstable market requires a new perspective
Whenever I meet people outside the media industry and tell them I’m a journalist, I’m usually met with the same reaction: “Wow, that’s so cool!” Some tell me journalism was once their dream career. Others compare me to a Lois Lane type, imagining a glamorous life of breaking news, press conferences, celebrity interviews and undercover reporting.
Behind the algorithm: How investigative journalists exposed Canada’s listeria oversight failure
When a deadly listeria outbreak swept across Canada in 2024, the initial headlines focused on recalls and rising case counts. But for The Globe and Mail journalists Grant Robertson and Kathryn Blaze Baum, something didn’t add up. A closer look at the data revealed a chilling detail: the DNA strain responsible for multiple listeria deaths had appeared nearly a year earlier—raising urgent questions about how it was missed. Their investigation exposed a systemic failure in federal oversight.
Care, connection and a nascent understanding of engaged journalism practices and pedagogies in Canada
Introducing Facts & Frictions’ special Spring 2026 issue on engaged journalism This special issue on engaged journalism comes out of an inkling and an observation: we had a glimmering sense that across Canada, journalists and news organizations were enacting new ways of engaging their audiences in the production of journalism.
Reporting in Black communities: Early findings from focus groups with Black news consumers in four Canadian cities
As the U.S. and its influence on Canada reverse progress made on diversity, equity, inclusion and race, the Reporting in Black Communities project will equip journalists with comprehensive, community-informed tools to create systemic, long-term change to strengthen and educate generations of journalists and Black communities to come This research note discusses the early findings of Phase 1 of the Reporting in Black Communities project.
Academics should engage the public without replacing journalism
Researchers are increasingly pushed into public debate, but evidence-sharing can unintentionally deepen pressures on fragile media institutions Over the past couple of years, I have begun writing more regularly for public audiences – primarily short op-eds based on my research on child development, trauma and youth well-being – to help inform current policy debates. This shift was prompted in part by being part of a Scholars Strategy Network workshop for the William T.
Academic news partnerships in local journalism: A literature review
How post-secondary newsrooms can contribute to local information ecosystems in communities with weakened traditional media presence This literature review investigates the potential of college and university newsrooms to mount a response to the decline of local journalism in Canada.
If killing journalists is a war crime, why isn’t anyone stopping it?
The past two years have seen a record number of media workers killed In April 22, Amal Khalil, a journalist for Lebanese outlet Al-Akhbar, was killed after an Israeli airstrike targeted a house in which she and freelance photojournalist Zeinab Faraj had sought cover. According to details released by the Lebanese health ministry, while rescuers were able to reach Faraj, who suffered a head injury, a stun grenade and gunfire prevented them from getting to Khalil.
Everyone wants to save local news. Almost no one will get the chance
Without systems that allow local news organizations to be transferred, modernized and operated by a new generation of publishers, every conversation about ‘saving local news’ risks becoming little more than nostalgia Earlier this year I stopped talking about saving local news and tried to buy a small-town newspaper. The deal didn’t close. But the process taught me more about the real state of community journalism than any conference, report, or policy discussion I’ve attended.
In defense of blue-collar creative work
On the necessity of valuing the labour of writing When I started my Master of Fine Arts in the summer of 2023, AI was creeping into more of our lives. I get the fascination of bringing ideas to life with ChatGPT or Claude, in a way—It’s playing God without the messy work of tilling Eden. But that’s just the thing: creation is more than an idea. It’s the work. How many great novels, movies, investigative features, came because of the thinking, the research, the edit? Almost all of them, I’d wager.