Keri Schram was the Senior Editor for the Spring 2004 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Big Push, Big Error
Thanks, in part, to John Honderich's freer-spending ways, the Star hit a series of investigative home runs. But it also embarrassed itself with one horrendous strike-out
It was the Saturday morning of the 2003 Canada Day weekend and Don Sellar, ombudsman for The Toronto Star, was in for a big shock. Sellar, who was on vacation at his brother-in-law’s Balsam Lake cottage, had decided to pick up a copy of the Star from a nearby newspaper box. That’s where he saw […]
Too good to be Stu
Prankster columnist Jesse Brown fabricates an anti-lad magazine about the average Joe
Embarrassment and amusement. That’s the official reaction from Doug Bennet, the publisher of Masthead magazine, after his publication was taken in by an elaborate ruse perpetrated by known prankster and Saturday Night columnist Jesse Brown. Brown decided to fabricate an anti-lad magazine called Stu because he was tired of getting beaten over the head with […]
