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AP begins implementing layoffs of US-based journalists, part of a pivot away from print journalism
11+ hour, 40+ min ago (18+ words) Toronto Star...
Postmedia exits flyer distribution business, leading to 50 full-time job losses
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (156+ words) Postmedia signage is pictured at the head office in Toronto, on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Lahodynskyj TORONTO - Postmedia Network Canada Corp. says it's exiting the flyer distribution business as it adapts to shifting consumer behaviours and a changing…...
Burkina Faso junta secretly detained journalist and others, advocacy group says
1+ week, 2+ day ago (261+ words) Reporters Without Borders said Atiana Serge Oulon, editor of the newspaper L'Evenement, was taken from his home in June 2024 by several armed men in civilian clothes. Burkina Faso's military junta later said he had been conscripted into military service. Instead,…...
Andrew Phillips: Access to the truth is getting worse
1+ week, 3+ day ago (888+ words) Palestinians pray beside the body of journalist Amaal Shamali, 46, who was killed in an Israeli military strike, during his funeral at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Monday, March 9, 2026. In Palestine, scores of journalists have been killed over the…...
AP, Washington Post, Reuters and Minnesota Star Tribune among Pulitzer winners for 2025 work
1+ week, 4+ day ago (436+ words) The Post's coverage illuminated the fast-moving, sometimes opaque particulars of President Donald Trump's drive to reshape the national government, and judges credited the Post with detailing what the changes meant for individual Americans. The Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown was given…...
Disappearing before our eyes: One photographer's passion project of capturing local newsrooms
2+ week, 1+ day ago (326+ words) And she's nowhere near done. Even as someone who spent time in newsrooms herself professionally " Hermes worked for several years at the Christian Science Monitor " she didn't anticipate it turning into such a passion project. "I love these spaces," she…...
Belarus frees prominent journalist Andrzej Poczobut in a 10-person prisoner swap
2+ week, 3+ day ago (952+ words) FILE - Journalist Andrzej Poczobut stands in a defendants" cage in court in Grodno, Belarus, on Jan. 16, 2023. (Leonid Shcheglov/Pool via AP, File) Poczobut, a correspondent for the influential Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and a leading figure among Belarus" Polish minority,…...
Toronto Star wins three National Newspaper Awards
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (732+ words) Star journalists won the Innovation in Journalism Award for creating a search engine that provided real-time data during the 2025 federal election. The Star's three National Newspaper Awards were among 27 presented at a gala ceremony Friday night at the Delta Hotel…...
Tunisia suspends one of Africa's oldest rights group as crackdown widens
2+ week, 6+ day ago (348+ words) The league confirmed the suspension in a statement late Friday, warning that the decision amounted to "a serious and arbitrary violation of freedom of association" and "a direct assault" on one of Tunisia's key democratic gains. President Kais Saied has…...
Can journalism survive AI? A panel of newsmakers discuss the realities
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (133+ words) Part of Ma RS Mornings, the Reporting Through the Noise panel will discuss the challenges of maintaining audience trust in an AI-mediated age. Reporting Through the Noise is part of the Ma RS Mornings series. Like many industries, news and…...