Ashley Laela Pergolas

Addicted!

Addicted!

Feeding the craving for celebrity doesn’t stop with the tabloids anymore. The Globe and Mail and National Post are now increasingly hooked on it. So are their readers. An investigation into journalism’s dark side and the rise of anorexic arts coverage

Jen McDonnell was unaware that alerts were bombarding her BlackBerry one Friday night last February. She was with friends at a bar on College Street when she got the call from a colleague. CNN had already caught wind of the news. McDonnell rushed home to cover the story, drafting a news brief on her BlackBerry […]

 Ashley Pergolas

Please Do Not Adjust Your Set…

Please Do Not Adjust Your Set…

The Real News Network is up and running online, but as for its proposed television programming, well, we're going to have to wait till summer comes along...

The large loft space at 720 Bathurst Street in downtown Toronto easily swallows the equipment and facilities for The Real News Network’s (TRNN) more than two-and-a-half dozen employees. A three-camera studio set-up is tucked away in a far corner opposite the newsroom. The black shades are drawn to eliminate the sun’s glare on the handful […]