Matthew Braga was the Senior Online Editor of the Summer 2012 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Classic Gopnik
Why he aspires to be the “rococo, Jewish, city-bound, Canadian E.B. White.”
And so, after five years in France, it came time for Adam Gopnik to leave. As The New Yorker‘s Paris correspondent, he’d covered the trial of a former secretary-general for complicity in war crimes during the Nazi occupation and the media circus that ensued (“a kind of O.J. trial, without television or a glove”). He’d spoken with chefs on the […]
Summer 2012 Teaser: Classic Gopnik
Matthew Braga talks about his profile “Classic Gopnik” in the Summer 2012 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
The New York Times tightens its “porous” paywall
Freeloaders, it’s time to pay up. That’s the message being sent by The New York Times, anyhow, as the paper announced yesterday it was changing the number of free articles visitors to the website could access each month. When the paywall was first introduced in March of last year,the Times said that visitors to the paper’s website could access up to […]
The Guardian’s latest hack day projects hope to improve journalism (and football)
It’s easy to forget that newspapers aren’t all words and type—there are, in fact, large armies of software developers and engineers working behind the scenes to develop the mobile apps and websites you see online. Take The Guardian, for instance, which has over 40 employees on its software team alone. Every once in a while, The […]
New York Times going Deep with its latest project
At first glance, Beta620 sounds especially nefarious—perhaps, the name of a chemical substance that will turn us all into Republicans, or a Bond movie plot to destroy United Nations HQ. But in truth, it’s the code name for The New York Times’ experimental projects group. That such a group even exists is a sign that the direction […]
The Most Tales: Hamutal Dotan
In the summer 2012 masthead’s first episode, Torontoist editor-in-chief Hamutal Dotan talks about her most extreme city council meeting.
