Erica was the Online/Blog Editor for the Summer 2013 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Feeding frenzy
How a new generation of food writers is taking a bite out of the high-dining critics and Yelp-loving bloggers to change the flavour of restaurant reviewing.
By Erica Scime Sitting at a table in Bua Thai, a small, dimly lit restaurant nestled in among a run-down pharmacy, a breakfast place with a broken sign, and a nearly empty grocery store on The Queensway in Toronto, Andrew Widla, 27, recently had what he calls some of the best pad thai in the city. […]
Glossing over writers’ rights
One month after Transcontinental Media released the appallingly unfair changes to its writers’ contract, it has announced the launch of Véro, a French magazine for women in Quebec–a move that is weighted with contradiction for its writers. Given its recent whining about the impact of social media and digital technology on the print industry, which it claims are […]
How to train your journalists
The Fellowship in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto is a journalism program unlike any other. “What we decided to do was, instead of teaching a specialty in the course of a journalism degree, which is what a lot of places do, we would actually go and […]
Access Denied
In December, McGill University filed a motion to deny certain access-to-information requests from its students, journalists at student newspapers at both McGill and Concordia University, and anyone else who may be associated with them. The university says the requests, which went up from 37 to 170 between 2011 and 2012, require too much time and effort. However, […]
