Asian Canadian Journalists Association (ACJA)

23/02/2023

By Fernando Arce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, New Canadian Media   Canadian newsrooms have made little progress in their efforts to diversi

29/08/2022

The profession is being equated with corruption and wrongdoing, an industry body warns.

12/06/2022

03/06/2022

خبر لہریا شمالی انڈیا کا ایک ایسا نیوز چینل ہے جس میں صرف خواتین کام کرتی ہیں۔ یہاں کام کرنے والی زیادہ تر خواتین کسی نہ کسی قسم کی ظلم، زیادتی یا معاشی بدحا...

05/03/2022

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) supports the efforts of Russia’s independent journalists and media outlets to provide reliable news coverage despite the clampdown imposed by the Kremlin as a result of its war in Ukraine, which has increased the many obstacles they have already had to deal with. Ч...

03/03/2022

03/03/2022

Our journalists are facing more harassment, threats for doing their jobs https://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/editor-note-pandemic-protests-media-experience-1.6343672

We tend not to share these experiences with audiences because we never want to make ourselves the focus of the story. But it’s important for Canadians to understand there is a growing intolerance of journalism in this country.

03/03/2022

Canada looks to make tech giants pay for news; Google’s threat to Australia proves laws are needed
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/online/google-and-facebooks-threats-against-australians-prove-regulation-is-needed-inquiry-hears/news-story/82bea2328626d51daabfeac21291e9a0

Canada will follow Australia’s world-first move to force tech giants to pay for the news they use.

03/03/2022

Google and Facebook are a new threat, and Canada needs new weapons to fight back
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/04/19/google-and-facebook-are-a-new-threat-and-canada-needs-new-weapons-to-fight-back.html

The challenge that Canada faces from Google and Facebook is not just the latest battle in an ongoing ‘Cancon’ war. And it’s not about protecting Canada from a U.S. cultural onslaught. It’s about protecting democracy itself. Because it is the lifeblood of democracy — local news — that is ...

03/03/2022

OVER 250 CANADIAN NEWS MEDIA OUTLETS HAVE CLOSED IN THE LAST 10 YEARS. If you had worked for one of the publications, please contact us for an upcoming study.
https://j-source.ca/over-250-canadian-news-media-outlets-have-closed-in-the-last-ten-years/

According to data collected by the Local News Research Project, a majority of closures have been community papers.

03/03/2022

Will Canada’s media survive the pandemic? Fifty papers have closed in just the last six weeks.
https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/05/06/will-canadas-media-survive-the-pandemic-fifty-papers-have-closed-in-just-the-last-six-weeks.html #:~:text=Community%20newspapers%20are%20facing%20particularly,publication%20so%20far%20this%20year.

Print revenues have plummeted by 50% or more and thousands of media workers have been thrown out of work. Journalists are leaving the field in droves. “It’s democracy that’s not going to be OK.”

12/10/2021

11/09/2021

The death of Rahimullah Yusufzai is a terrible blow to journalism – not just in this region, but at a global level. He was one of the best-known and most well-respected journalists on the subject of the Afghan conflict and considered an authority on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. With his passing we ha...

12/08/2021

Police in India arrested on Monday a suspended police officer and his brother who are believed to have brutally stabbed to death a journalist with a screwdriver after he discovered the cop’s involvement in a gambling and to***co smuggling ring.

31/05/2021

15/05/2021

A building housing international news outlets is destroyed after a warning to evacuate.

07/05/2021

04/05/2021

You've already heard about Wikileaks.
But do you know everything about the struggles of the man behind the scenes? ‘Julian Assange: The Price of Truth’ is a way to clearly understand this story.

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The decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the United States is unlikely to be the end of his long struggle. For the past 10 years, Premiere Lignes has ...

24/03/2021

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22/03/2021

اجے کمار لالوانی حجام کی دکان میں بیٹھے تھے۔ جب نامعلوم اسلحہ بردار ایک موٹر سائیکل اور گاڑی پر آئے اور انہوں نے اجے کمار پر فائرنگ کر دی۔

18/03/2021

AP journalist Thein Zaw was arrested while covering demonstrations last month against the military coup in Myanmar.

He remains jailed Thursday on his 33rd birthday.

25/02/2021

“You Don’t Belong Here” tells the story of three trailblazers who cleared the way for generations of female journalists after them.

08/02/2021

Daniel Pearl’s gruesome murder still haunts US-Pakistan ties