The Alumni Essentials: expanding the story
When a story like the Jian Ghomeshi saga gets as big as it has, it presents a challenge for media organizations: how to differentiate themselves. The Toronto Star is breaking the coverage, and everybody else is picking it up and often just repeating it. This week’s Alumni Essentials shows how important intelligent, contextual analysis is as a […]
The Alumni Essentials
Are you looking for some reading material for your ride into work today? Or maybe while you’re at work (something has to get you through Monday)? Look no further, as we continue to collect some of our favourite recent pieces from former Review writers: First up is spring 2006 associate editor Aaron Leaf’s editorial looking at Liberia’s […]
Back for another round
It’s time we became your homepage again. The 2014-15 Review masthead is set and we’re picking up where last year’s group left off, just on a much better looking, user-friendly website (seriously, try it on your phone or tablet!). We hope you enjoyed the summer without us breathing down your neck, because starting now we’ll […]
That time we launched a magazine
By Daniel Sellers By quarter to nine last Thursday night, the crowd at the back of Toronto’s Esplanade Bier Markt had thinned into discrete, scattered clusters. The party launching the Spring 2014 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism was over, and members of funk and soul cover band Soular were beginning to set up their gear. […]
Academic Question
When not on the lookout for that fresh angle on a stale story, journalism students are bracing themselves for insults from people who are earning a living in the profession we’re hoping to break into. We don’t have to look very hard. Dodging reporters who want to know how our impressionable young psyches have been […]
