News – School of Journalism and Communication https://carleton.ca/sjc Carleton University Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:41:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 Capital Current Summer 2024 Journalism Experience https://carleton.ca/sjc/2024/global-journalism-internships-2/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:41:04 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=21179 Capital Current

Carleton University’s Journalism Program is relaunching an exceptional job opportunity during Summer 2024 for a number of its Master of Journalism, Bachelor of Journalism, and Media Production & Design students to gain some income and valuable work experience with Capital Current.

We will be creating four positions, each for eight weeks in duration. The pay will be $20 per hour, for a total of $5,600 for each eight-week placement. Two of the positions will be from from mid-May to mid-July and the other two will run from mid-June to mid-August.

Successful applicants will produce content for the school’s flagship digital publication, Capital Current, including its social media streams. Successful applicants will employ a range of digital reporting tools to cover news as it unfolds. Applicants chosen for the June-August positions will also be involved with with the delivery of a Podcast Journalism Summer Camp program, to be offered the week of Aug. 12-16.

These positions are available to those who, as of Winter term 2024, were enrolled in the MJ program or in the upper years of the BJ and MPAD programs.

Student reporters would be working with a professional editor in the assigning and publishing of stories and other content. Faculty from the School of Journalism and Communication will provide publisher oversight of Capital Current’s virtual newsroom over the course of the summer.

If you are interested in applying please fill the application below before Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

For additional information, please contact Prof. Allan Thompson.

Application Process

The application deadline is Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 5 p.m.

To apply, fill out the form below. You will need the following materials: 

  • Application form (including year in program and two SJC profs who can provide a reference)
  • Statement of intent: 250 words, who are you, why you want to do this, your qualifications.
  • Current CV: should be a clean format and a link to an online portfolio is useful.

Capital Current Summer 2024 Journalism Experience

  • Your 9 digit Carleton ID number (can be found on your campus card)
  • Referee 1

  • Referee 2

  • Accepted file types: pdf.
    Please upload in PDF format

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Journalism students can now apply for an Emerging Reporter Fund https://carleton.ca/sjc/2024/emerging_reporter_fund_announcement/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:12:50 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=21165

Carleton University’s journalism program is now accepting applications to eight unique Emerging Reporter Funds that have been set up to support students looking to produce impactful works of journalism. The funds have been established to support a variety of journalism projects in areas such as social justice, science and in-depth reporting.

Made possible by the generous support of multiple donors, the Emerging Reporter Funds will allow Journalism students at the undergraduate and graduate levels to gain the professional experience needed to produce meaningful journalism work without the financial burden often involved in pursuing this type of focused, intensive reporting.

The funds are valued between $1,200 and $6,500 and are being offered through The Future of Journalism Initiative (FJI) – a collaborative research hub at Carleton where journalists, academics and students work together and independently on innovative research projects that further the collective knowledge and understanding of journalism practice.

For nearly eight decades, the Carleton School of Journalism and Communication has been at the forefront of professional practice and on the front lines of inquiry into journalism’s role in society. The Emerging Reporter Funds are just one way the school is granting students a chance to contribute to the public discourse and kickstart their reporting careers during their studies.

The eight Emerging Reporter Funds available to students are as follows:

  • Leonard Shifrin and Louise Dulude Canadian Social Policy Emerging Reporter Fund – valued at $6,500
  • Shireen Abu Akleh Emerging Reporter Fund in Social Justice Journalism – valued at $5,000
  • The Peter Mansbridge Emerging Reporter Fund – valued at $4,000
  • Susan Cardinal Emerging Reporter Fund – valued at $2,500
  • Bell Media Future of Journalism Initiative Emerging Reporting Fund – valued at $1,300
  • Lydia Dotto Emerging Reporter – valued at $1,200
  • The Peter Leo Emerging Reporter Fund – valued at $5,000
  • Emerging Reporter Fund on Resettlement in Canada – valued at $5,000

Applicants wishing to apply to any of the eight funds should review the criteria for each fund and download and complete the FJI Emerging Reporter Fund application form. The deadline to apply for all Emerging Reporter Funds is Tuesday, April 2 at 11:59 p.m.

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Political cartoonist Michael de Adder to deliver 2024 Kesterton Lecture https://carleton.ca/sjc/2024/michael-de-adder-2024-kesterton/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:01:08 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=21128 ]]> Vincent Mosco: In Memoriam https://carleton.ca/sjc/2024/vincent-mosco-in-memoriam/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:01:45 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=21036 The School of Journalism and Communication recently learned of the death of former Communication professor Vincent Mosco. The following obituary has been shared by Mosco’s family. 

Vincent Mosco giving a lecture.Vincent Mosco, a sociologist, political economist and renowned scholar in critical communication studies, died suddenly on Feb. 9 in Orlando, Fl. He was 75. He leaves behind his partner of more than 45 years, Catherine McKercher, daughters Rosemary and Madeline and their partners, grandchildren Noelle and Colin Morton, sister Bernadette (Jim), brother Joe (Maria), and nephew Frank.

Vincent grew up in a tenement on Mulberry Street in Manhattan’s Little Italy. Though he loved his extended family and his community, he was determined to escape poverty and saw education as the way to achieve this. He won entry by a competitive exam to Regis High School, one of New York’s best, graduated from Georgetown University in Washington with top honors, and went directly into the PhD in Sociology program at Harvard University, finishing his degree at the age of 27.

Over a long and distinguished career, he taught at the University of Lowell, Mass., Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa., Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., and Carleton University in Ottawa. He returned to Queen’s in 2003 to take the Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, retiring in 2011. In 2016 he was appointed distinguished professor at the New Media Centre, Fudan University School of Journalism and Communication, in Shanghai, China.

He was the author, co-author or co-editor of 27 books and more than 200 articles and reports, mainly focusing on the political, economic and social impact of new communication technologies. He served on the editorial board of more than 20 academic journals. His work took him all over the world, to Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa. A forthcoming memoir, to be published by Westminster Press in the UK, highlights his research and his activism. He won numerous awards for his teaching, scholarship and the contributions he made to critical research.

Vincent met Catherine, then a Washington correspondent for The Canadian Press, during a year-long post-doc in the Carter White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. They fell in love almost instantly and married in 1980. In 1984, disturbed by the turn to the right in the U.S. under Ronald Reagan, they moved their young family to Canada, first to Kingston and then to Ottawa, where they both joined the faculty of the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton.  After taking the chair in Kingston in 2003, he and Catherine worked together on a series of studies on communications workers and the organizations that represent them.

Vincent Mosco watching a sports game.But his life was not all work and no play. As a young man, he was joyfully ferocious on the basketball court. He stood by his beloved Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots through years of failure, which made their eventual victories all the sweeter. He loved helping his daughters grow into the talented, independent women they have become. In his final years, nothing made him happier than playing with his grandchildren, pulling coins out of their ears, pushing them on the swing, or spraying them with a garden hose. His family, which included dozens of graduate students who have gone on to scholarly careers of their own, was a source of enormous pride, joy, and love and they will miss him dearly.

A memorial gathering is planned for later this spring.
(details to be posted here once confirmed)

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Apply for 2024 Global Journalism Internships https://carleton.ca/sjc/2024/global-journalism-internships/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:11:32 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=20933 Global Journalism Internships - Centre for Media and Transitional Societies

About Global Journalism Internships

Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication is once again seeking applications for its Global Journalism Internship Program. This program has been in operation since 2006 and has sent more than 200 Carleton journalism students to the Global South to take up media internships and project Carleton’s values on the international stage. These internships have provided life-altering opportunities for many of our students as a capstone to their time at Carleton and have also built valuable connections for Carleton internationally.

This year’s program will include up to 10 funded internships of 12 weeks duration with Farm Radio International in Côte d’Ivoire (for French-speaking applicants), Ghana, Uganda and Zambia.

Successful applicants for the Farm Radio positions will receive $4,000 each in funding from Carleton. Selected students will contribute the $4,000 toward the cost of the internship and Farm Radio will arrange and cover any additional cost of flights, accommodation, visas, local travel, insurance, and 3-day pre-departure training in Ottawa. Farm Radio will also reimburse for such medical expenses as vaccinations. Interns will also receive a $500 per month cost-of-living stipend in the field.

Interns will join the Farm Radio project as producers for the Nature Answers podcast from Farm Radio International that shares stories from rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Interns will collect and produce the stories that will be featured in that podcast as well as accompanying companion multimedia pieces.

For additional information, please contact Prof. Allan Thompson.

You can also view the information video briefing about the internship program that was held in the Resource Centre on January 25th, 2024.

     

Application Process

The application period begins on Tuesday, Feb. 6 and will close on Friday, Feb. 16 at 5 p.m.

To apply, fill out the form below. You will need the following materials: 

  • Application form (including year in program and two SJC profs who can provide a reference)
  • Statement of intent: 250 words, who are you, why you want to do this, your qualifications.
  • Current CV: should be a clean format and a link to an online portfolio is useful.

2024 Global Journalism Internships Application Form

  • Your 9 digit Carleton ID number (can be found on your campus card)
  • First Choice
  • Second Choice
  • Third Choice
  • Referee 1

  • Referee 2

  • Accepted file types: pdf.
    Please upload in PDF format
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Brady and Research Team Present Findings on Autistic Menopause to Women’s College Hospital https://carleton.ca/sjc/2024/brady-and-research-team-present-findings-on-autistic-menopause-to-womens-college-hospital/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:55:30 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=20826 On January 11, 2024, the Bridging the Silos: Autistic Menopause Study team presented their research findings on autistic experiences of menopause to the Toronto Women’s College Hospital Department of Psychiatry as part of the Grand Rounds series.

The Bridging the Silos study explores how autistic people experience menopause, how they can better access information that might help them, and how autistic people can be more involved in research about menopause. It is the first study of its kind to include a pool of Canadian research participants. It is also the first to include autistic community researchers in the co-production of knowledge with academics. It contributes to earlier research in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and the Netherlands which suggests that many autistic people experience menopause as a tumultuous or even catastrophic time.

Image from Bridging the Silos

The emphasis of the talk was on the first phase of research, focus groups and interviews with 24 autistic participants from Canada and the U.K. who had experiences of the menopausal transition. Participants in both countries had a very difficult time with menopause, and faced many barriers to accessing information, healthcare, and support. Findings from the first phase of the study are currently under peer review with an academic journal. The team has also conducted research in second and third phases of the project, creative submissions and an international survey respectively. The team is scheduled to deliver talks in February for Autism Alberta and Memorial University.

Bridging the Silos is funded by an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The team is comprised of Community Research Associates Christine A. Jenkins (Canada) and Rose Matthews (U.K.), Dr. Miranda J. Brady, (Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University, Canada), Dr. Rachel Moseley and Professor Julie Gamble-Turner (Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, U.K.), and Margaret Janse van Rensburg (Social Work, Carleton University).

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Online forums to examine best practices for mental health in the journalism industry https://carleton.ca/sjc/2024/online-forums-to-examine-best-practices-for-mental-health-in-the-journalism-industry/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:51:11 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=20820 By Matthew Pearson

Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma and the Canadian Association of Journalists are launching a special series of online industry forums to tackle critical issues affecting the mental health and well-being of news professionals.

The series, titled Taking Care in News: 2024 industry Discussions on Well-being, will be open to journalists, editors, managers, educators and students. Registration is free.

Dave Seglins, Tracey Lindeman and Matthew Pearson on Parliament Hill.

A series of free online discussions will address five critical issues affecting the mental health and wellbeing of news professionals.

“2024 is a time for action. It is urgent newsrooms and industry leaders take concrete steps to better protect their people,” said Carleton University journalism professor Matthew Pearson, who is co-producing the events alongside journalist and mental health advocate Dave Seglins.

The pair are lead authors of Taking Care: A Report on Mental Health, Well-being and Trauma Among Canadian Media Workers, published in 2022.

“Our study revealed alarming levels of burnout, anxiety, depression and trauma exposure within our industry. It is time we band together to share solutions and to better protect the people who work in this tough, exciting industry,” Seglins said.

The series of industry talks and expert Q&As kicks off Jan. 10 and will feature guest speakers who are making changes in their own workplaces and newsrooms. The goal is to share best practices and lessons to improve mental health and psychological safety across the industry.

The series will consist of five events:

  • J-SCHOOLS OR NEWSROOMS: WHO SHOULD TEACH TRAUMA AWARENESS?

Wednesday, January 10, Noon-1 PM (ET)
Ravindra Mohabeer, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), School of Journalism
Sally Haney, Mount Royal U/ J-Schools Canada
Laurie Few, TVO
Moderator: Matthew Pearson, Carleton University

  • WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES: MANAGING DIFFICULT STORIES

Wednesday, January 17, Noon-1 PM (ET)
Maria Salazar Ferro, New York Times / ACOS Alliance
Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune, Photo/Video Editor
Cheryl McKenzie, APTN, Director of News & Current Affairs
Dave Seglins, CBC, Journalist & Well-being Champion

  • COLLEAGUES HELPING COLLEAGUES: BUILDING SUPPORTIVE NEWSROOMS

Wednesday, January 24, 9-10 AM (ET)
Natalie Graham, BBC, Presenter/ Peer Support Coordinator
Eden Fineday, IndigiNews, Publisher
Harry Key, psychotherapist, CiC Well-being (UK)
Dave Seglins, CBC, Internal Peer Support Coordinator

  • MANAGING UPS AND DOWNS OF THE FREELANCE/TEMP ROLLERCOASTER

Wednesday, January 31, Noon-1 PM (ET)
Tayo Bero
Amber Bracken
Leyland Cecco
Tracey Lindeman

  • FOSTERING INCLUSION + WELL-BEING

Wednesday, February 7, Noon-1 PM (ET)
Yamri Taddese (CBC)
Denise Balkissoon (The Narwhal)
Sujata Berry (CBC)
Pacinthe Mattar (Freelance journalist and 2023 Asper Fellow in Media, University of Western Ontario)
Wesley Lowery (Executive Director of Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University)

How fostering inclusion and belonging support employee and newsroom well-being. The potential, the challenges and the solutions from a range of industry perspectives.

These virtual events are open to colleagues around the globe and will be recorded and shared for those who can’t attend.

The Taking Care In News discussion series builds on the 2022 national study of mental health among media workers in Canada, which documented high rates of trauma exposure, anxiety, depression and burnout.  Since that report, the researchers have held a national roundtable with 50 industry leaders in Canada and launched working groups examining key issues.

Key findings of the Taking Care Report:

  • +80% respondents report burnout from trauma exposure
  • 28% report anxiety diagnosis by a doctor (Canadian average is 2.6%)
  • 21% report depression diagnosis by a doctor (Canadian average is 4.7%)
  • 50% report job satisfaction is good or excellent
  • Only 25% report well-being is good or excellent
  • 57% report daily grind is difficult to manage
  • 59% of women / 42% of men have sought medical help for work-related issues
  • 90% report no trauma training in j-school
  • 85% report no trauma training at work

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A Ukrainian journalist’s experience covering the war in her own country is the focus of this year’s Stursberg lecture https://carleton.ca/sjc/2024/a-ukrainian-journalists-experience-covering-the-war-in-her-own-country-is-the-focus-of-this-years-stursberg-lecture-2/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:59:18 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=20801 PLEASE NOTE THE REVISED TIMING FOR THIS EVENT

Ukrainian journalist Veronika Melkozerova will deliver Carleton University’s upcoming Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondent’s Lecture on the topic of covering conflict in your own society.

The virtual event will be held online at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024 via Zoom webinar. Please book tickets online to get access to the Zoom link.

Since its launch in 2017, the annual Peter Stursberg lecture, named in honour of the legendary Second World War correspondent, has explored the work of foreign correspondents and their coverage of conflict.

In a departure, Melkozerova will be the first correspondent to talk about the experience of covering a conflict at home, in your own country. Melkozerova is based in Kyiv where she has been covering Ukraine as a reporter for Politico Europe since December 2022. But she’s been writing about Ukraine for foreign audiences since 2014.

Melkozerova’s lecture – Conflicted: a Ukrainian journalist covers her country at war – will be delivered at an event moderated by Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC Radio’s Idea.

Melkozerova has been writing about Ukraine for foreign audiences since 2014, when Euromaidan protests ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. Soon after the revolution ended, Russia occupied Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and started its hybrid invasion of Ukraine in Donbas, accompanied by waves of propaganda and covert operations against Ukraine.

In addition to documenting her country at war, Melkozerova has written movingly about the inner conflict many Ukrainian journalists face.

“We face a continual tension between holding the government to account, and not wanting the enemy to undermine us by exploiting bad news,” Melkozerova wrote in a January opinion piece for Politico, laying bare how ‘conflicted’ many Ukrainian journalists feel.
“A journalist is meant to stay a little distant from the situation he or she covers. It helps to stay impartial and to stick to the facts, not emotions. But what if staying impartial is impossible as you have to cover the invasion of your own country?” she wrote.

“Naturally, you have to keep holding your government to account, but you are also painfully aware that the enemy is out there looking to exploit any opportunity to erode faith in the leadership and undermine national security. That is exactly what Ukrainian journalists have to deal with every day.”

Melkozerova has never presented herself as a war correspondent and reported from frontline towns only twice. But in 2022, the whole of Ukraine turned into a war zone as Russia started its full-scale invasion of the country.
Melkozerova remained in Kyiv throughout the Russian siege of the Ukrainian capital from February to April last year. She witnessed her city’s transformation under siege and covered it for many Western media, including The Atlantic, NBC News, and Times Radio London. After the Russians left Kyiv, Veronika continued to cover the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In September of 2022, she visited New York and spent three months there, covering events of the 77th United Nations General Assembly as a participant in the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists internship program. But when the program ended, she returned to report from her beloved Kyiv.

The annual Stursberg lecture, now in its seventh year, was created in honour of legendary Canadian war correspondent Peter Stursberg, who pioneered radio coverage of the Second World War for the CBC. Notably, Stursberg and other war correspondents of that era, spoke of the same type of inner conflict Melkozerova has described, a sense that they were expected to support the war effort through their reporting.

Stursberg passed away at the age of 101 in 2014, and his children Judith Lawrie and Richard Stursberg endowed the annual talk in his honour. The Stursberg lecture is one of two initiatives created by the family within Carleton’s journalism program to honour their father. The other is the Peter Stursberg Award in Conflict Journalism and Media Studies. This award was intended to help a student in Carleton’s Master of Journalism program complete a thesis or journalism project on a subject related to human conflict, the media and conflict studies, or conflict resolution, reconciliation or reconstruction.

This award has supported some wonderful journalism projects so far. The 2023 recipient is MJ student Farida Nekzad, an Afghan journalist who is completing a major study on the impact of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan on women journalists in the country.

Over the years, the Stursberg lecture has featured some incredible correspondents: Lyse Doucet, Janine de Giovanni, Adrienne Arsenault, Larry Madowo and Nima Elbagir. Last year, we heard from Giancarlo Fiorella, senior investigator for Bellingcat.

The Stursberg is one of the journalism program’s most important annual events and Ukrainian journalist Veronika Melkozerova will add another fine instalment to this lecture series.

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Journalism program celebrates the launch of faculty-led journal ‘Forced Change’ https://carleton.ca/sjc/2023/forced-change-pandemic-pedagogy-and-journalism-education-celebrating-the-launch-of-the-journal-issue-facts-and-frictions/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:11:09 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=20793 By Kemi Obando.

In a special issue of the journalism studies journal Facts and Frictions, Carleton University journalism professors Trish Audette-Longo, Christine Crowther and Nana aba Duncan address how journalism education in Canada  has changed since 2020 and how it will continue to change. Co-edited by Chantal Francoeur at UQAM, and Shenaz Kermalli in Toronto “Forced Change: Pandemic Pedagogy and Journalism Education, features the contributions  of 20 educators across the country.

“We call this issue ‘Forced Change’ to acknowledge the speed with which journalists and journalism educators acted to meet the demands of external pressures through the pandemic: doing (and sometimes re-learning) their jobs and connecting with their communities remotely, at a distance, often at any or all hours” the editors write in their introductory essay.

The introductory essay also outlines calls issued by Black, Indigenous and students of colour at Carleton University and other journalism schools to address systemic racism in journalism education.. The introductory essay can be found here: https://factsandfrictions.ca/portfolio-item/forced-change-introduction-pandemic-pedagogy-journalism-education/

The issue includes traditional research essays, podcast episodes, reflections on teaching and ready-to-use teaching material.

Ultimately, the goal of this special issue is to build community across journalism schools and foster more conversations about what it takes to teach journalism now and in the future,” lead editor Audette-Longo says.

Utilizing journalistic methods in the peer-reviewed journal, Duncan led the development of the Forced Change English-language podcast episodes.

“Our focus is on how journalism educators changed the way they taught during the COVID 19 pandemic, ” Duncan says.  There are three English-language podcast episodes and one French-language episode led by Francoeur.

The podcast episodes cover a range of issues including unpacking trauma-informed reporting in journalism classrooms, and teaching anti-oppressive journalism and feature the journalism school’s IT coordinator Roger Martin, associate professor Adrian Harewood, associate professor Duncan McCue and assistant professor Matthew Pearson. The episodes were co-produced by journalism students Nathan Fung, Sophie Kuijper-Dickson and Wafa El-Rayes.

Design by Yanjano Banda

Carleton J-School students Yanjano Banda designed the image featured across the multimedia issue, Nehaa Bimal and Constantina Varlokostas contributed to coordinating behind the scenes, Charlotte Nieuwenhuis translated elements of the issue, and alumna Tracey Lindeman designed the PDF version of the journal.

All of this work was funded in part by the School of Journalism and Communication, the Faculty of Public Affairs, the Office of the Vice President (Research and International), Teaching and Learning Services, and a SSHRC Connection grant

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Support J-Source and Journalism Experiential leaning this Giving Tuesday https://carleton.ca/sjc/2023/support-j-source-and-journalism-experiential-leaning-this-giving-tuesday/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:28:13 +0000 https://carleton.ca/sjc/?p=20634 J-Source, a joint venture led since 2013 by the journalism programs at Carleton University and Toronto Metropolitan University, is the go-to source for news about the people, institutions, research and best practices of journalism and journalism education in Canada. This Giving Tuesday, Nov 28th, support J-source by donating to the future funder campaign J-Source Journalism Project | Carleton FutureFunder. All donations will be matched by Carleton University

Launched in 2007 initially under the wing of the Canadian Journalism Foundation, it has developed a dedicated following of journalists, journalism students, academics and communication professionals and offers an outlet for the work of journalism schools and students across the country.

Gifts to J-Source fund journalism by contributors and support our operations, providing a platform to share important intelligence with the broader journalism community and critical experiential learning opportunities in the School of Journalism. To donate visit J-Source Journalism Project | Carleton FutureFunder

Donations will also support operating costs for J-Source’s newest venture the Canada Press Freedom Project, which tracks press freedom violations across the country from denials of access to arrests, physical assaults and verbal harassment, to online threats and chilling statements.

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