Julie McCann was the Managing Editor, Production for the Spring 1998 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. The Lush Life of Paul Rimstead
Take one dropout, add a tumbler of scotch and a shot of Hemingway. This would hardly work today, but for the Rimmer, it was the recipe for a celebrated career as a master storyteller
THE RIMMER HATED COGNAC. RUM AND Coke, stingers, gin and tonics, whiskey; now those were drinks. But as a reporter on assignment in Paris in 1967 at a sidewalk cafe; on the Champs-Elysees, Rimstead dutifully followed in the path of his idol Ernest Hemingway and ordered cognac. In fact, Rimstead often found himself doing things […]
La Belle Chaos
One city. Four alternative weeklies. Forget the linguistic squabbles. The real fight to watch in Montreal is a good, old-fashioned newspaper war
It’s lunch time in Montreal, but the day’s just getting started for the editors at the alternative newsweekly Hour. Six staffers have gathered for a meeting around an egg-shaped boardroom table strewn with notepads, ashtrays, latte bowls and candy wrappers. At the moment, they’re puzzling over an ad that a local theatre company has placed […]
