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2. How should journalists cover climate?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Consky, Mitchell (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11426
- Journal Title:
- Ryerson Review of Journalism
- Notes:
- 6 pages., Online via periodical website. Published on November 9, 2019., Author described reactions of journalists who were covering climate strikes that occurred throughout Canada on September 27, 2019. Respondents were invited to share perspectives about their role in covering this complex topic.
3. Left behind
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Goldman, Jordana (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-01
- Published:
- Canada: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10547
- Journal Title:
- Ryerson Review of Journalism
- Notes:
- 6 pages., via website,Ryerson Review of Journalism., Between the hours of about 4 p.m. to midnight, Ashleigh Weeden goes dark. Not for the usual reasons, though. In Weeden’s southwestern Ontario town, the internet connection becomes—for all practical purposes—nonexistent during those hours. The PhD student at the University of Guelph lives in Ariss, Ontario, a “dispersed rural community” sandwiched between urban centres like Guelph and Kitchener. Despite paying about $250 monthly for internet access, she finds herself shut out of the internet. “…[S]ometimes [internet speed] goes one, maybe half a megabyte down,” she says. “I can’t grade, I can’t do anything, there’s no point, I might as well give up until about midnight.”
4. This publisher launched a contest to give her newspaper away for $1
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Longwell, Karen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11425
- Journal Title:
- Ryerson Review of Journalism
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Online via Ryerson Review of Journalism website. Published on February 19, 2020., Tara de Ryk, owner and publisher of a rural Saskatchewan weekly newspaper, decided after 21 years to retire from the newspaper business. This article describes how community interest in local news and an adventuresome spirit prompted her to conduct a give-away contest in late 2019. Interested persons were invited to write an essay (500 words maximum) about how they would be ideal owner and publisher of the Davidson Leader. The article describes the contest and winning entry, which led to change in ownership.