history of journalism
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Early reporting on AIDS offers lessons for covering future health crises, new study suggests
By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter April 13, 2018 Gay men living with HIV/AIDS were underrepresented and often portrayed in a negative light by Toronto mainstream newspapers covering the early years of the health crisis, according to a new study. The research paper by Ryerson University master of journalism student Michael D’Alimonte also suggests that the Toronto Star and the Globe…
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Audience engagement efforts aren’t new – they’re just different these days, sociology professor argues
By JASMINE BALA Staff reporter Building audience engagement has long been a newsroom preoccupation, only today it involves Instagram and Facebook, while in the past publishers seduced readers with paper cut-out toys and thrilling accounts of reporters on around-the-world races against time. New research on the history of Sunday newspapers by Paul Moore, an associate professor in Ryerson University’s sociology…
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