Support J-Source this Giving Tuesday!
Dear readers,
Tuesday, Dec. 3 is Giving Tuesday and again this year, J-Source needs your support to continue to expand the reach and breadth of our coverage of journalism and media issues in Canada.
Despite a constant torrent of major tests, journalism continues to prove its essential role in a democratic Canada. Independent journalists and news organizations have pushed journalism towards a more inclusive, representative and nuanced practice by challenging traditional gatekeeping practices, proposing new approaches to reporting, exploring complex issues more thoroughly and better engaging with historically mis and underrepresented communities.
Journalists across the country continue to investigate and uncover wrongdoing by corporate and political actors, provide crucial analysis to make sense of current events, and also offer insights into potential solutions to the greatest challenges facing this generation.
In this time where journalism in Canada faces existential threats but is still finding ways to thrive, only a few enterprises are dedicated to continuous coverage of the multilayered conditions bearing on journalism and information ecosystems in the country. There is also little coordinated effort to counter these threats with information, commentary, analysis, research and facts about the role that journalism and press freedom does and must play in our society. Since 2007, J-Source has been one of those few places where journalists, journalism educators, students and the general public can find this essential coverage.
Donations to the J-Source FutureFunder site provide the funds we use to pay the contributors both to J-Source and to our Canada Press Freedom Project.
On Dec. 3, you can make a single donation or make monthly contributions deducted from your credit card. Whether you can help us with $5 or $500, Carleton University will issue a tax receipt for everything you donate. All the money you contribute through the Giving Tuesday FutureFunder campaigns goes to J-Source. There are no administrative or overhead charges applied by Carleton that might reduce the value of your donation.
Our Canada Press Freedom Project is Canada’s only source of ongoing data, analysis and educational tools on press freedom incursions and violations across the country – everything from denials of access, to equipment seizure and damage to court rulings, to online threats, harassment and intimidation. We have tracked and reported on the CPFP site more than 170 press freedom violations across the country through submitted incident reports since the start of 2022. Our data is available free for researchers, academics and the public to use. Our growing library of educational tools on press freedom issues in Canada helps students, freelancers and small media outlets navigate press freedom issues they may encounter in their reporting.?
Your contributions will help us continue all this work in 2025!
Thanks for reading J-Source. We hope you will take advantage of Giving Tuesday to support us for the coming year
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