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. Humpday Round-up — October 20
The journalism world has been all a flutter this week discussing some of the most heinous crimes in Canadian history: the Russell Williams murders. At issue is how to deal with publishing and broadcasting details in an era of instant communication. Reporters have been live-tweeting nearly every disturbing element of the case (using hashtag #colrw), raising questions amongst […]
Live from the Canadian courtroom, it’s a crime story tonight
Live online coverage of everything from Question Period to the Academy Awards is rampant, especially on Twitter. So what’s next on the instantaneous coverage docket? Court reporting, of course. Last Thursday, Ontario Supreme Court justice Robert Scott agreed to allow journalists to bring electronic devices, including BlackBerrys and laptops, to former-Colonel Russell Williams’s sentencing this week. Journalists will be […]
Humpday Round-up—October 13
The CEO of the company that owns The New York Times announced in Hamburg last week that the newspaper’s website will adopt a “first click free” strategy, which will allow some free access to content in spite of an upcoming paywall. At the World Editor’s Forum in Hamburg last week, Janet Robinson said readers will have […]
Sunday issue of Toronto Star to include New York Times
The Toronto Star subscribers will soon be getting an American bonus with their papers. Effective this Sunday, a 16-page international weekly version of the New York Times, including the Canadian version of the New York Times Book Review, will be included in the Sunday Star. The section will look just like the Times newspaper—that is, […]
Friday Funny: Jetpack Fail
Guys! Guys! Jetpacks are finally here! And the LAPD has already invested in thousands, despite that costing about a billion dollars! I particularly enjoy the part where they gloss over their extreme stupidity with a bad joke. Read Craig Silverman‘s article with the whole story here. http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Fox-Friends-Falls-For-Fake-LAPD Got a suggestion for the Friday Funny? Email the RRJ blog editor.
Humpday Round-up—October 6
Hey all, did you know The Globe and Mail launched its redesign on Friday? Of course you did—after months of hype and anticipation, the national newspaper’s print and online redesign went public (as well as their microsite, Canada: Our Time To Lead). But after checking out both the print and web versions, it’s actually not that stupid of a […]
Newspaper Audience Databank releases Canadian readership stats
Daily newspapers are not dead yet, apparently. That’s the news coming out of the NADbank (Newspaper Audience Databank)’s Fall 2009/Spring 2010 readership study released today. The organization collected newspaper readership data from the million-plus markets—Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa-Gatineau, Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax—and concluded that “daily newspapers continue to be a vital source of news, information and entertainment […]
Humpday Round-up
Well, it’s better than the death penalty—but Iranian blogger Hossein Derakshan has been sentenced to 19 1/2 years in prison for postings on his Farsi-language blog. According to the Associated Press, Derakshan has been a vocal supporter of President Ahmadinejad, and is credited for launching the Iranian blog revolution. Formerly based in Canada, the blogger was arrested during […]
Sneak preview of the Globe and Mail redesign released
The giant timers John Stackhouse brought into The Globe and Mail’s newsroom still say there’s four days until the newspaper’s redesign goes public, but we got a sneak peak at what’s in store thanks to a prototype released over the weekend. It has only been three years since the newspaper launched its last redesign, which […]
