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The Great Newspaper War of Barry’s Bay

The Great Newspaper War of Barry’s Bay

Conflict and drama in a small town

Highway 60’s single lanes span 254 kilometres from Huntsville to Renfrew in Eastern Ontario, through Algonquin Park, past the blink-and-you-miss-them hamlets of Whitney and Madawaska and the Murray Brothers Lumber Company, one of the largest employers in the region. The highway cuts through evergreen forests and spruce bogs, continuing southeast past my parents’ inn, until […]

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Who Needs Journalists?

Who Needs Journalists?

From Wikinews to Our Canada, from Fashion to Chatelaine, readers are supplying more—and, in some cases, all—of the editorial content. It's a threat to journalists' livelihoods, but it sure makes the publishers' statements look good

Journalists, are you worried about more magazines folding, about the onward march of corporate downsizing, about the steady migration of readers to the Internet? Of course you are! But fear not. At the Ryerson Review of Journalism, we’ve developed a plan for you to stay in the game. You see, journalists really can benefit from […]