The Press Progress, a Canadian nonprofit news organization, has hired Emma Arkell to cover labor.
A story on its website states, “It’s ironic too, Emma notes, given every newspaper has a business section, but never a labour section: ‘I wish that many stories that would normally be reported as ‘business’ or ‘tech’ stories would instead be covered from the perspectives of workers.’
“This kind of labour reporting is more important now than ever given bigger media outlets in Canada have fewer journalists and resources to devote to reporting on issues impacting workers, meaning any labour stories that do get covered tend to be episodic and lack depth.
“‘The decline in labour reporting has resulted in a public that is less informed about unions and their rights as workers,’ Emma observes. ‘There’s an absence of poor and working class voices in the news, denying many working people the opportunity to read news that meaningfully includes people like themselves.'”
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