Fatima Syed

The rise of the reader

The rise of the reader

In the ecosystem of the web, readers and journalists are now co-dependent species—a relationship we're still trying to grapple with

The former hierarchies of the journalism industry have crumbled by the weight of the digital realm, to be replaced by blurry parallel relations between journalists and readers. The result is evident in the record 10,600 readers who participated in the Toronto Star‘s annual “You be the editor” survey. Administered by the Star’s public editor, Kathy English, the “highly unscientific, […]

 Carine Abouseif

The Washington Post wants to put “wheels on luggage,” not a man on the moon

The Washington Post wants to put “wheels on luggage,” not a man on the moon

Martin moves the Post in a new digital direction that focuses on smaller details

“If you talk about what used to be, we’re going to be what used to be.” That’s what Martin Baron, executive editor of the Washington Post, tells his staff. Last week, the Canadian Journalism Foundation held its last talk of the year at Ryerson University, where the National Post’s Anne Marie Owens interviewed Baron about the Washington Post’s digital […]

 Carine Abouseif

Snapchat: From the home to the newsroom

Snapchat: From the home to the newsroom

In the second of RRJ's two-part series on "Journalism via Snapchat," Carine Abouseif looks at how Canadian journalists are using the app to create news stories

The little ghosts of Snapchat have been taking over my Twitter feed this last month. We’ve talked about how Snapchat is being used for a kind of citizen journalism. But not much has been said about how professional journalists and news outlets are using the app—at least not in Canada. These little white ghosts on […]

 Jennifer Joseph

The Most Tales: Emma Prestwich

The RRJ sat down with Emma Prestwich from the Huffingtonpost.com to hear her most bizarre moment in her career. This is one you don’t want to miss—it includes a human head!

 Arielle Piat-Sauve

Is La Presse+ the solution to newspaper woes or a capitulation to advertisers?

Is La Presse+ the solution to newspaper woes or a capitulation to advertisers?

A Montreal newspaper's new tablet app is proving popular with readers, but the content may need to become lighter to please the real customers

By Arielle Piat-Sauvé Guy Crevier knew something needed to change when he compared the drop in newspaper revenue to the aging baby-boomer population. The president and publisher of La Presse suspected that as his core readership aged, newspaper sales could decrease significantly. Fearing it was only a matter of time before the traditional newspaper model […]