Amy was an online handling editor on the 2014-2015 masthead. Covering suicide with care
On Friday, December 9, 2011, The Globe and Mail published a story called “How the taboo on reporting suicide met its end,” regarding journalistic coverage of teen suicide. The article looked at the pros of suicide news coverage, including the ability for such stories to raise awareness. But there were also cons, including the potential for such stories to […]
Are ethnically diverse covers finally in vogue?
An article posted on The Guardian’s women’s blog recently highlighted an interesting British magazine trend. According to writer Anita Chaudhuri, more U.K. women’s magazines are featuring women of colour on their covers, including InStyle (U.K.) and Psychologies. Chaudhuri wonders if this means magazines are becoming more diverse. While there has certainly been a shift in recent years, there is still a predominantly Caucasian […]
Another reason to be wary of journalists
Last week The Globe and Mail gave the general public another reason to be wary of journalists. In a front-page story, the Globe stated that there had been a reversal in a policy regarding same-sex couples who travelled to Canada to marry. But this was not exactly the case, as pointed out by Kevin Kindred in a J-Source article. It turns out […]
The Big Bad Wolf isn’t so big and bad
“There’s a part of this book, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, where there’s this wolf, who’s a smart aleck from Brooklyn. The wolf says, ‘There’s a little bit of a misunderstanding. I was going next door to get a cup of sugar ’cause I was making a birthday cake for my granny, and […]
That Was Then, This Is Now: Kate Carraway
“That Was Then, This Is Now” explores the beginnings of some of Canada’s favourite writers and journalists Kate Carraway always thought she was going to be a lawyer. “It seemed to be the thing that made sense,” she says. “I was captain of the debate team and I always got good grades in English and […]
Arianna Huffington brings the “Good News”
Death. Destruction. Despair. These are all things that could deter someone from opening up a daily newspaper. It’s news, but in a world where “if it bleeds it leads,” news can make the world seem downright depressing. The Huffington Post now has a solution. On January 12 it announced the creation of an entire section dedicated […]
Thoughts on freed press: Libyan media
I recently read a really interesting piece about media ethics in the January/February 2012 of The Atlantic. The article, “Freed Press,” is writer Graeme Wood’s personal account of teaching said ethics to a group of about 50 young (under 30) Libyan journalists. Wood writes that about 100 independent magazines and newspapers are published in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which is a […]
A picture is worth a thousand keystrokes
We’ve all done it; inserted a “smiley-face” at the end of a flirtatious text message or a “sad-face” emoticon after a friend has poured her heart out online because, let’s face it, you weren’t really paying attention and didn’t know what else to type back. Modern day emoticons that many of people use on a day-to-day […]
The Toronto Star bids its beloved “Newsboy” adieu
Jim Wilkes, or “Newsboy,” as he is called at the Toronto Star, said farewell to his colleagues on January 13 after more than 36 years as a photographer and reporter for the publication. To commemorate his long career, the Star said goodbye in both a print article and a blog post, which featured some of Wilkes’s most memorable works as […]
Halifax Media thinks you’re a sloppy dresser
t doesn’t look like it’s getting any easier to be a journalist. The Halifax Media Group, which bought a chain of small and medium-sized American newspapers from the New York Times Company for $143 million, has been getting national attention for a string of corporate decisions. The first was on January 9, when it was reported that the […]
