Jennifer Cheng was the Departments Editor for the Spring 2014 issue of Ryerson Review of Journalism. A novel approach
Fiction and journalism are contradictory, but equally relevant ways of getting at the truth.
By Jennifer Cheng It’s September 1982, and Linden MacIntyre has just sneaked into the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut with his camera crew and a taxi driver. Lebanon is in the midst of a civil war, and a week earlier, Christian militia had slaughtered hundreds—possibly thousands—of Palestinians. As the CBC broadcast journalist watches a front-end loader […]
How the Newsmaker of the Year Becomes the Controversy of the Day
The annual announcement from The Canadian Press is always a story—and if Rob Ford is this year’s pick, some people are sure to be outraged
In mid-November, Andrew Lundy, director of digital at The Canadian Press, sent an internal email to about 20 bureau chiefs, department heads and news editors asking them to come up with nominees for Newsmaker of the Year. A week later, he had a list of 18 candidates, including Rob Ford, senators, Chris Hadfield, Alice Munro, […]
