Arielle Piat-Sauvé was the Spring 2015 Senior Editor of the RRJ Tongue-Tied
My ears were buzzing from the latest news: two female protesters had interrupted the annual anti-abortion March for Life on Parliament Hill—topless. The senior producer at CBC News Network’s Power & Politics with Evan Solomon wanted me to get both women, who were part of the feminist group FEMEN, in the studio as soon as possible. […]
Breaking Bad
Six journalists. Five newsrooms. One massive Montreal corruption scandal
Six journalists. Five newsrooms. One massive Montreal corruption scandal
TEASER: Breaking Bad
Here is a sneak peek at the cover story of our Spring 2015 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism magazine.
Je Suis Charlie
Reflecting on the deaths of France's Charlie Hebdo journalists—and the freedoms they fought for
By now you all have heard the horrific news: Twelve people were killed at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper headquarters in Paris earlier today. At 11:30 a.m., local time, three men dressed in black emerged from a vehicle in front of the newspaper’s office, carrying automatic weapons. The gunmen stormed through, killing two police officers and […]
Is La Presse+ the solution to newspaper woes or a capitulation to advertisers?
A Montreal newspaper's new tablet app is proving popular with readers, but the content may need to become lighter to please the real customers
By Arielle Piat-Sauvé Guy Crevier knew something needed to change when he compared the drop in newspaper revenue to the aging baby-boomer population. The president and publisher of La Presse suspected that as his core readership aged, newspaper sales could decrease significantly. Fearing it was only a matter of time before the traditional newspaper model […]
CBC v. CBC: the fifth estate on the unmaking of Jian Ghomeshi
For weeks now, everyone wondered how CBC would cover the downfall of its own golden boy. “Our story tonight is not an easy one to tell. Many of those you’ll hear from are our colleagues. But we are telling it because five weeks after Jian Ghomeshi was fired, important questions still have no answers: what […]
Was Justin Trudeau’s boycott of Sun Media justified or an unfair obstruction?
In 1967, Pierre Elliott Trudeau famously said, “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” Recently, Trudeau’s bedroom activities were fair game for Ezra Levant on his show, The Source. Levant said Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s “frat boy” antics around a stranger’s bridal party were no surprise considering his parents’ behavior, […]
Rob Ford: Professor of Journalism
What the Toronto Mayor's reign of error has taught me about difficult municipal politicians and the people who cover them
[Text contains three clarifications to original article as published in the RRJ print edition:] When I started my journalism studies at Ryerson University, I naively thought I would be learning how to be a good reporter from the professors and practitioners visiting my classroom. Boy was I wrong. It isn’t the classroom that provides the answers to how to […]
Fixated
What drives a little-known investigative journalist from Ottawa to expose a massive cheating scandal at the heart of worldwide pro soccer?
We begin in Germany during the 2006 World Cup of soccer. There are thousands of fans inside the main stadium at Dortmund, watching Brazil take on Ghana for a berth in the quarterfinals. The majority support Brazil. They won’t be disappointed; within six minutes the South Americans are up 1–0. The stadium erupts as fans dressed in yellow, […]
The media diet
Why the wellness beat has become an unappetizing blend of sensational headlines, mixed messages and unhealthy reporting
Few shoppers here are in a hurry. It’s a hot, late-August afternoon, and Carrot Common is dappled with shade. Two young women sit outside with organic takeout boxes, their feet sporting charity-chic Toms shoes. To their left, a bulletin board advertises holistic nutritionists and alternative health therapies. To their right, a juice bar churns out murky green detox smoothies and blood-red beet juice. At […]
