As an adjunct professor in communication at Simon Fraser University, and in journalism at the University of British Columbia, I’m also co-organizing Vancouver Media Democracy Day 2017 . Hidden amid gloomy tales of the decline of Canada’s news media is a success story in southwestern British Columbia. What is emerging here is a good news story about the future of news, one worth paying attention to across Canada and beyond. Alberta Oil magazine fretted that the so-called “Vancouver School” of journalism was too effectively making the case against pipelines connecting the oilsands to B.C.’s coast. But feds pondering how to “save” journalism in Canada ignore at their peril the sentiment that motivates thousands of people to not just read but financially support “Vancouver School” media.

Source: thestar November 09, 2017 22:32 UTC