Cormac was the blog editor for the 2014-15 issue of the Review. As a fourth year undergraduate at the School of Journalism, he had a keen interest in sports and business writing. He also hosted the Krates Collective hip hop podcast. The Latest
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The latest circulation numbers show that Canadian magazines have experienced both growth and decline. View the list of magazines and their percentages here. In the United States, on the other hand, sales are steadily dropping and declining faster in the second half of 2010 than they did in the first, read more here. Despite what […]
The Latest
Overwhelmed by information? Buried by media? The RRJ is here to help with a new daily section designed to help you keep up with the latest and greatest journalism, across all mediums.
This week, impressions and reviews for the world’s first daily tablet newspaper are all over the internet. Whether you love it or not, The Daily is here. The Daily was officially launched by media magnate Rupert Murdoch last Wednesday – February 2, 2011 – and works like a newspaper, arriving every morning, but with the […]
How To: Get a Source to Talk
Kevin Donovan, an investigative reporter for the Toronto Star, shares his tips on how to get the most out of your sources.
Step 1 – Initial approach: “Go to their home, their office, call them … and then send an e-mail.” “Writing an e-mail is the last thing I would do. The personal touch is always better, although there are different approaches for different people. If your source is a government official, then you’ll have to send […]
The “Must” List: Sarah Fulford
An exclusive, ongoing RRJ series featuring leading Canadian journalists and their top picks for pieces every journalist “must read,” “must watch” and “must listen” to before they die.
TODAY: editor Sarah Fulford Sarah Fulford is the editor-in-chief of Toronto Life magazine. Fulford took the position in 2008, after holding several jobs at the magazine since 1999 and following the departure of John Macfarlane, who had been editor for 15 years. Her father is veteran Canadian freelance journalist Robert Fulford and her husband, Stephen […]
The “Must List”: Chris Jones
An exclusive, ongoing RRJ series featuring leading Canadian journalists and their top picks for pieces every journalist “must read,” “must watch” and “must listen” to before they die.
Today: writer Chris Jones Chris Jones is a writer-at-large for Esquire. He’s won two American National Magazine Awards and has also written for ESPN: The Magazine and the National Post. His musings about his current project, renovating a 140-year-old house, and other topics can be found here. He was profiled in the RRJ in the […]
Egypt Coverage Roundup
Media coverage highlights during the protests in Egypt: – The Guardian has been providing consistently in-depth reporting, all of which is accessible via its live blog. – Al Jazeera English also has an excellent live blog, and is hosting a live news stream with reporters and cameras on the ground and among the protesters.- Making use of the […]
A Fresh Start
Welcome loyal RRJ followers. We here at the summer masthead have spent the last couple of months working with our web developer, Chris Kim, on designing the new version of the RRJ.ca that you see today. Since it is a pretty drastic face-lift, we hope you’ll be understanding in case we have any tweaks to […]
Silence Broken
Reporters surrounded Ottawa Senators coach Cory Clouston after his team’s 2-0 win over the Boston Bruins last Saturday. Rather than a soundbite, Clouston told reporters the team’s assistant coach, Luke Richardson, lost his daughter to suicide the night before. Silence crushed the room, but it didn’t last. The local papers, the Ottawa Citizen and the […]
Friday Funny — Journalism Throwback Edition
For your viewing pleasure… 5:06 is particularly entertaining. Have a suggestion for the Friday Funny? Email the RRJ blog editor.
Here we go again…
October 25 will no doubt go down in history — not because of a likely shift to the right in Toronto — but, obviously, because it’s the first day of production for the Winter 2011 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. We asked the Twitterverse for some guidance as we head into the next […]
