Alanna Kelly is the Spring 2015 senior online editor. She will talk and play any sport you throw her way. She also has an interest in multi-platform and photo journalism. Prize Fighters
Sports sections are on the ropes, but columnists with distinctive voices are still throwing punches
Sports sections are on the ropes, but columnists with distinctive voices are still throwing punches
TEASER: Prize Fighters
Here is a sneak peek at one story from our Spring 2015 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism magazine.
Talking to athletes: a one-way conversation
I’ve spent three hours waiting under dimly lit lights in a silent hallway of the Air Canada Centre. Reporters are filtering in one at a time and not a single Toronto Raptor is in sight. Finally, the media relations manager comes out and announces the three names the organization has chosen for us—Amir Johnson, Jonas […]
Missed opportunity: the Rice video was about domestic abuse, not sports
When a football player hit a woman in an elevator, journalists were quick to write about it, but too many wrote about the wrong issue
By Alanna Kelly There are many viral videos that The Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti refuses to watch, but she had to see the video that showed Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. As disgusting as it was, it showed an issue that people needed to talk about. The couple had just left […]
Live-tweeting an attack could endanger journalists and citizens
When a gunman attacked Parliament Hill on October 22, Canada was left with many questions and eager journalists determined to find the answers first. As the shooting shook Ottawa, many journalists were quick to jump onto social media to give breaking news updates depicting what was occurring on site. But what some reporters didn’t do […]
Stories Behind the Shots – Peter Bregg
Peter Bregg has been capturing Canadian history on the run through his lens for 48 years. He is the first photojournalist to win the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Watch now to learn about the stories behind the shots he takes.
Spring 2015: Meet the Masthead
Meet this years Spring 2015 Masthead for the Ryerson Review of Journalism. We turned it around on our journalists and asked them the questions.
