Catherine Muss was the Director of Circulation for the Summer 2006 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Dude, Where’s My Journalism?
Dose covers what you care about, if you don't care about much
On the October 14, 2005 cover, a fried chicken leg sits on a pea-green plate. The cover line reads: “You can’t get it from fried chicken – and other truths about bird flu.” Kitschy covers beckon passersby from inside newspaper boxes with come-hither cover lines such as, “Clicking to Climax,” or “Is There a Place […]
Celebrity Takeover
Advice columns from the rich and famous, memoirs from the stars who've been there—now celebrities are moonlighting as journalists. Meanwhile, editors have decided it's worth it to coddle their popular, but fledgling talent
“Sex does not a relationship make,” Jann Arden advises. “Dating is a tool used to weed out the wackos.” The question “So Confused” had asked Arden was whether she ought to stop looking around, now that she and her date had slept together. In the December 2005 issue of Elle Canada, the advice columnist finished […]
