Journalism’s Reinvention Is Happening—Just Not Where You Think
Legacy media is collapsing. The future is small
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Local News Is Dying. The Consequences Are Worse than You Think
Unreliable information, uninformed citizens, unchecked governments
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The Walrus Launches Six Regional Bureaus to Tell Canada’s Local Stories
From the Yukon to Newfoundland, we are putting reporters on the ground
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What’s the Point of “Pretendian” Investigations?
The latest revelation, about Buffy Sainte-Marie, is convincing, damning, and strikingly incomplete
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Why You Might Stop Seeing Canadian News in Your Feeds
The Online News Act, or Bill C-18, may change how you share and discover journalism
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Why Is It So Hard for Writers to Talk about the Working Class?
From novels to TV, you’ll have a hard time finding people who struggle with poverty
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Is CanCon Obsolete?
When it comes to what qualifies as “Canadian,” nobody seems happy. It’s time to rethink the nationalistic vanity project
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Nostalgia about Newsrooms Ignores How Much They Need to Change
Tantrum-throwing reporters and endless meetings aren’t glamorous—or good for modern journalism
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Journalism’s Wicked Problem: Save What’s Lost or Invest in What’s New?
It will take serious policy changes and unprecedented industry collaboration to turn around the story of the media’s collapse
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How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read Online
The AI of the internet determines what’s relevant. One day, it decided my work wasn’t
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