Aimee was the head of research for the Review's 2015 masthead. Where the Wild Things Are
Cute clickbait may still dominate our newsfeeds, but serious animal journalism is rising to the surface
Cute clickbait may still dominate our newsfeeds, but serious animal journalism is rising to the surface
TEASER: Where the Wild Things Are
Here is a sneak peek at one story from our Spring 2015 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism magazine.
A mugshot is worth one thousand words
My professor had just started her lecture on semiotics and the implications of pairing photos with article text. A photo of one of my peers stood out in my mind—more specifically, a mugshot. On February 2, a fourth-year Ryerson journalism student Eric Do and two other Toronto men were arrested for breaking and entering and […]
Kamloops no longer has a daily paper, but it’s no town without news
When the Daily News shut down, it deprived residents of the B.C. city of their regular routine, but not of journalism
By Aimee O’Connor With a ceremonial click of a button, Mel Rothenburger, who’d retired as editor-in-chief in 2012, simultaneously put to bed the last issue of the Kamloops Daily News and an 80-year-old tradition. The front page headline on the January 11 edition read, “I really don’t know what I’m going to do when there’s […]
Do You Hate Me?
For the National Post's Donna Laframboise, the question is rhetorical
“Feminism can come to men’s rescue,” Donna Laframboise scribbles in her notepad. “Honestly?” Laframboise and I are here, along with a couple of hundred people gathered at the University of Toronto to hear Susan Faludi, one of the grand dames of feminism, speak. Faludi, author of Backlash and self-described “dame in shining armour,” is talking […]
