Karen Robock was the Last Laugh Editor for the Spring 2004 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Roto Retro
A look back at "a brief and shining moment that will never come again." How the freebie inserts changed Canadian journalism
Toting his notes, thermos of coffee and a pack of Salem Light Menthol cigarettes, Earl McRae would creep into the closed Simpson Tower on Yonge Street and ride the elevator to the 11th floor – home of The Canadian magazine. Squeezing into his office with barely room for a desk and chair, he’d begin pounding […]
The Death of Canada’s Oldest Newspaper
Torstar shuts down the Cambridge Reporter after 157 years in print
Reporters, editors and staff members arrived for a Monday morning meeting at the Ainslie Street office in downtown Cambridge with little idea of what was to ensue. Few were aware that by the end of the week their jobs would be terminated and the doors to the country’s oldest newspaper would be closed for good. […]
