Allison Elkin was the Spring 2015 co-chief copy editor of the RRJ. ”I will be glad when your rag goes out of business. Real men marry women.”
More than two dozen readers cancelled their subscriptions when The Washington Post published a photo of two men kissing on its front page last week alongside a story of the D.C. Superior Court beginning to accept license applications for same-sex marriages. Andrew Alexander, the Post‘s ombudsman, received a slew of complaints from readers. One ranted about the Post “promoting a faggot lifestyle.” A 65-year-old […]
Queer? Not welcome
The Harper government dealt a low blow to Canada’s queer publications when it announced revisions to the aid-to-publishers budgets, part of the Canadian Periodical Fund, on Jan. 19th. Small publications must have a total 5,000-copy annual paid circulation to be eligible for financial assistance, and publications like Fab Magazine don’t make the cut. Queer mags were formerly exempt from […]
We’re not done yet
It’s been just over a week since Team Canada’s heroic gold-medal victory against their U.S. counterparts in the men’s hockey finals of the Olympics. That night all of Canada seemed to rejoice: horns honked until the wee hours of the morning and Canadian columnists draped their newspapers’ front pages with emotional, patriotic outbursts of pride. […]
Chatelaine fires six
A blog post on this site yesterday evening erroneously reported that Ken Whyte laid off five staff at Chatelaine magazine. Though six staff members have beenlaid off, there is no evidence explicitly pointing to Whyte’s role in the situation. The blog post has been removed, and the Ryerson Review of Journalism regrets the error. According to the Financial Post, those laid off […]
BREAKING: More staff out at Chatelaine
At 5:13 p.m. today David Hayes sent out an email to the Toronto Freelance Editor and Writer’s list with news that Ken Whyte has laid off five more atChatelaine. Those laid off include Hayes’s handling editor Rachel Giese, and deputy editor Melanie Morassutti, who is on maternity leave. “The next (last?) stage in the purge […]
Cutting down, beefing up
Yesterday, BBC director general Mark Thompson declared to the globe the station’s pursuit to produce “the best journalism in the world.” This is in response to an uproar from critics after BBC announced the 600 million-pound ($932.8 million) restructure that would see the elimination of the network’s sports programming and popular TV shows like Mad Men, The Office and The Wire. Thompson went […]
NYT’s Olympic musical is a symphony of one note, repeated often
The New York Times doesn’t want us to read anymore. With the 2010 Winter Olympics at a close, the highly regarded paper decided to lose the usual results bar graph and make an audio presentation for its website instead. You can hear how close the silver medalist came to taking home the gold, with each piano key-like sound […]
Andy Barrie has left the building
CBC Toronto’s Metro Morning host Andy Barrie is officially off the airwaves. The revered radio man hosted his last show Thursday but came back this morning to be interviewed by Matt Galloway and serenaded by Moxy Fruvous. Dedicated Toronto listeners are mourning his departure after a 45-year career, first in private radio, then at CBC. “Andy […]
Spot.us changes—for the better?
Spot.us has taken up the cause of the underprivileged journalist. The “community powered reporting” website that provides journalists with funding to pursue stories has announced that contributors will soon be able to donate their time and knowledge to an article, instead of just their money. Is it an innovative way to promote journalism (granted, an industry in […]
