http://www.mastheadonline.com/rss/news.php MastheadOnline RSS en-us Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:13:08 UTC Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:13:07 EST http://www.mastheadonline.com circulation@masthead.ca webmaster@northisland.ca http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20261013715.shtml Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:08:16 EST   The Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC) claims portal for Settlement Year 2025 will open on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Any news businesses wishing to submit their claim for compensation from Google under the Online News Act can do so then. The deadline to submit claims is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Payments are anticipated by the Spring of 2027. Submissions are assessed across three ‘pillars’ of eligibility – the news business, the news outlet, and newsroom employees. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20261013712.shtml Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:37:59 EST    Authors Tara Gereaux, Michelle Good, Nicholas Herring, Nazanine Hozar, and Patmeena Sabit, are the five writers shortlisted for this year’s Giller Prize. The $100,000 annual award recognizes the best in Canadian fiction. The 2026 shortlist features historical fiction set in 1940s Saskatchewan (Gereaux’s Wild People Quiet), a contemporary story about a road trip from New Brunswick to Toronto (Herring’s Your Breath in Charcoal), and a compelling novel about child soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war (Hozar’s The Small Ones). http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20261013710.shtml Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:08:11 EST    The Economic Opportunity Lab has released a free new “playbook” to help local newsrooms report on the policies and places that shape economic mobility in their communities. The Lab is a partnership between the Local Media Association, Comcast NBCUniversal, and the Harvard-based research group Opportunity Insights, which brought together 48 local newsrooms and 10 NBC Telemundo stations across five regions to report on how place and policy are shaping access to opportunities, with the ultimate goal of driving economic mobility. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20261006003.shtml Tue, 6 Oct 2026 22:12:37 EST   Al Gorithm. Journalist? Meet Al Gorithm. He looks human and sounds human, but he isn’t a journalist. Al is the satirical face of this year’s National Newspaper Week campaign running October 4–10 across Canada. This fictional character was created to make a simple point – as AI-generated content becomes more human-looking and human-sounding, it can be harder to tell whether a real person is actually behind the information we read. The 2026 campaign asks Canadians to look more closely at who or what is behind the news they absorb. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20261005852.shtml Mon, 5 Oct 2026 22:12:43 EST Philip Mascoll Veteran Jamaica-born journalist Philip Mascoll died in Toronto on Monday, September 14, after a months-long illness. He was 77. An editor, reporter and former member of the Star’s investigative team, he was also inaugural President of the Jamaican Diaspora Canada Foundation. Mascoll received his early education at Jamaica College before moving to the UK, where he studied journalism, political science, and sociology. He returned to Jamaica in 1971 and worked in communications and community relations before moving to Toronto in 1980. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20261005850.shtml Mon, 5 Oct 2026 22:12:58 EST   Geoffrey Stevens The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) has announced a new journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on local, provincial, or territorial issues. The Geoffrey Stevens Fellowship for Political Reporting will offer one journalist or small team $3,500 to produce a significant project focused on a region that gets little to no coverage, or subject areas that deserve greater scrutiny. The application portal is now open.https://caj.ca/programs/awards/geoffrey-stevens-fellowship/apply/ Deadline is October 15, 2026. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20261005847.shtml Mon, 5 Oct 2026 22:12:49 EST     The best from the province’s magazine industry gathered in Calgary Thursday, September 17, to celebrate the Alberta Magazine Awards (AMA). The annual event, hosted by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA), honours the work of Alberta’s magazine publishers, art directors, writers, photographers, editors, and illustrators, for excellence in magazine content published in 2026 across 19 categories. See the list of finalists and winners here: https://albertamagazines.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/AwardsRecipients2026.pdf http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20260925827.shtml Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:12:54 EST   The COPA 2026 judging panel has been released. We have 80 volunteer judges this and without them there will be no COPAs. Many thanks to ALL. This year we have some new judges the COPAs would like to highlight this year (photo below). To see the complete list of Judges CLICK HERE The deadline for the 2026 COPAS is September 30. ENTER HERE     http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20260922953.shtml Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:16:41 EST     The Canadian Community Newsmedia Awards celebrate the best in community publishing from across Canada with a diverse array of categories covering editorial, photography and multimedia. English-language and French-language non-daily community news media across the country took part in News Media Canada’s annual competition, and winners were announced Sept. 14, 2026. Click here to download the complete listing of 2026 winners (.pdf). https://nmc-wp-uploads.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/11141838/2026-CCNAwards-Winners-List_EN-09.11.2026.pdf http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20260922951.shtml Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:08:21 EST     News Media Canada’s Newspapers 24/7: 2026, is the 13th study in its ongoing research series examining how Canadians engage with newspaper brands across print and digital platforms. Completed earlier this month, the research shows that 83% of Canadian adults read newspaper content each week. In other words, newspapers and their sites remain a major mass medium, reaching adults in traditional and online formats. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20260922950.shtml Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:13:02 EST     A recent study by Magazines Canada and BrandSpark found that printed magazines still play an important role in the retail shopping experience. As consumers browse eye-catching magazine covers and discover compelling content, they’re more likely to make impulse purchases. A curated selection of niche magazines can also add to a store’s aesthetic appeal. Plus, survey respondents whose shopping trip included a magazine purchase, reported greater satisfaction with their overall shopping experience. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20260921733.shtml Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:12:33 EST    Earlier this summer, Canada Post offered lower rates to TC Transcontinental’s flyer-distribution Raddar products compared to community newspapers. In response, News Media Canada (NMC) is currently gathering information from community newspaper publishers to make the case that they should be offered that same lower rate. Complete the survey here: https://nmc-mic.ca/2026/09/03/community-newspaper-publisher-survey/ http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20260921731.shtml Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:12:41 EST    Workers at the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) have filed with the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to join the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) as new members. The move took place the first week in September after a more than a dozen staff signed union cards. The bargaining unit will include staff in editorial, development, and tech departments across the country, providing their skills and knowledge to Canada’s media sector. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20260921729.shtml Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:12:57 EST    Maclean’s Magazine has released its 2027 Ultimate Guide to Canadian Colleges, a resource to help students looking to improve their skills and make more informed educational decisions. The guide is published through Maclean’s Education, a leading platform for university and college rankings since 1991. This year’s guide includes the latest college programs and credentials, careers built for the future, opportunities in AI and emerging fields, a look at college careers that lead to the highest earning potential, and much more. http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2026/20260906783.shtml Sun, 6 Sep 2026 20:31:31 EST    The Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA), a provincial arts service organization that represents professional and emerging writers in Alberta, is seeking writers to join its awards juries. Deadline is September 18, 2026. In 2027, the WGA will present awards in ten categories, plus its City Book Prizes. Current openings on the juries cover fiction and non-fiction books, poetry, indigenous non-fiction and/or journalism, short stories, short non-fiction, unpublished essays, children’s picture books, plays, memoirs, and its City Book Prizes. More information: : https://writersguild.ca/call-for-jurors-alberta-literary-awards-2027/.