Amy was an online handling editor on the 2014-2015 masthead. Where are we going with wearables?
We already have the world at our fingertips, but now with the creeping ubiquity of wearable technology, news junkies can get the latest stories delivered directly to their wrists. Since Apple announced an April 24 release date for its eponymous watch, the chatter about wearable devices has spread beyond just the tech community and has […]
Keeping it Reel
Canada’s rich history of documentary filmmaking may be fading out, but Gordon Henderson is still rolling
Canada’s rich history of documentary filmmaking may be fading out, but Gordon Henderson is still rolling
TEASER: Keeping it Reel
Here is a sneak peek at one story from our Spring 2015 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism magazine.
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Nova Scotia’s The Chronicle Herald breaks the ban and publishes her name on November 24. Her father praises the Chronicle Herald for its decision and on Friday, he writes a passionate opinion piece on CBC.ca about his disdain for the lingering ban on his daughter’s name. For him, it’s about justice and opening up a conversation […]
Canadian University Press must reinvent itself to stay alive
The world’s oldest student news service is losing members because it no longer gives large papers what they want
By Amy Grief When the sports editor at the Queen’s Journal requested media passes from the school’s athletics department in August, he received one instead of the usual eight. Back in March, the previous sports editor, Nick Faris, reported on how Queen’s University Athletics selected its varsity team of the year after nullifying an original […]
That was then, this is now: John Macfarlane
“That Was Then, This Is Now” explores the beginnings of some of Canada’s favourite writers and journalists John Macfarlane, seasoned journalist and editor, did not have any experience in news reporting or journalism until his first year of political science at the University of Alberta (now the University of Calgary). Macfarlane got involved with student […]
News over noise
Tony Burman gestures to the projector screen to his left, and it floods with riot footage from the Egyptian revolt against former president Hosni Mubarak. Al Jazeera’s cameras captured scenes that make Toronto’s G20 look like a playground squabble: mobs trying to topple a police van into the Nile, civilians shot while carrying bodies out of the […]
NBC: Brian, please don’t gawk at the Lana-mals
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is making news himself for once, after an email correspondence critical of his own network was posted online for all to see. In a private email to Gawker editor Nick Denton sent on January 15 (the pair are apparently friends), Williams criticized the popular media and gossip blog for not featuring enough TV content on […]
Battered and biased
This hasn’t been the most exemplary week for our craft. It’s a week in which popular Independent columnist Johann Hari officially left his job because of plagiarism; in which disgraced journalist (and storyteller) Stephen Glass may be licensed to practise law; in which Rush Limbaugh proposed an investigation into the personal life of the ABC News journalist who had the […]
That Was Then, This Is Now: Dale Brazao
“That Was Then, This Is Now” explores the beginnings of some of Canada’s favourite writers and journalists “In Grade 12, my English teacher came to me and said The Sault Star was putting together something called the Teen Page,” says the Toronto Star’s award-winning investigative reporter Dale Brazao, remembering his first experience in journalism. Every Friday, the paper […]
