SFU-based media watchdog NewsWatch Canada, housed in the School of Communication, has just released its 2011 list of the top 25 most under-reported stories by national media. They include Canada’s secretive negotiations with the European Union for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; the lack of accountability for the human rights and environmental abuses that Canadian mining companies are causing abroad; the ways in which corporate lobbying is shaping Canadian and US laws and regulations, and the downplaying of the long-term effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

To read the full report: (PDF)  http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/newswatch/files/2011/11/NewsWatch-Canada_SFU-Research-Seminar_2010_2011_Underreported-Stories_Print-Ready.pdf