Emily Mills was the Director of Circulation for the Summer 2005 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Risky Business
Must a magazine about Bay Street be as dull as a pinstripe suit? For Report on Business magazine editor Laas Turnbull, it all depends on packaging
Case study. Subject: Report on Business magazine, The Globe and Mail‘s almost monthly business insert (published 11 times a year). Business challenge: competing for readers against a host of other sources of financial information. Question: can a magazine stay comfy with Bay Street while reporting – in an entertaining yet critical way – on its world, leaders, and […]
More Than a Love of Craft
Journalists dish on the pleasures and the pitfalls of romance in the biz
Michelle Shephard wasn’t thinking about love when she met Jim Rankin on her first day of reporting for The Toronto Star in 1995. Actually, the summer student was swearing in her car, banging her steering wheel, and idling in a driveway. She was on deadline and didn’t know how to unlock the gate of the company parking […]
