Amanda Shuchat was the Director of Publicity for the Spring 2006 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. The Girl Next Door
In which our correspondent, who grew up a few blocks away from a young woman who was kidnapped and murdered, investigates the seamy side of reporting on missing persons
Laurie Perks, York Regional Police media spokesperson, raises her voice above the drone of circling helicopters so the reporters can hear her. The scene outside Alicia Ross’s family home on August 18, 2005, is chaotic. Police have blocked the street to traffic; photographers and TV crews cluster around the mobile command centre outside the distinguished, […]
Another Year, Another Epithet
After the Boxing Day shootings in Toronto's downtown core, local news media quickly labelled 2005 the Year of the Gun. They say they weren't sensationalizing
Rob Roberts, the National Post‘s Toronto editor, got the news within 10 minutes. He was short-staffed – it was, after all, the day after Christmas. So he sent in what he had, two reporters and a night person. He didn’t know who was dead – if anyone – but he knew the story was big. […]
