Nathan Crocker was the Head of Research for the Summer 2008 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Sects and Violence
A year ago hardliners attacked Jawaad Faizi in the driveway of his editor's Mississauga, Ontario home—not the first time his writing had made him a target. The reason: his loud criticisms of certain Muslim clerics. A stirring example of journalistic integrity? Or something not nearly so noble?
Last April, at 8:50 p.m. on a quiet night, Jawaad Faizi picked up his ringing cellphone with his right hand while clutching the wheel of his car with his left. It was the voice of Amir Arain, his editor at Mississauga’s Pakistan Post, telling him he had just received an anonymous warning on his office […]
The Case of the Abandoned Shoe Store
Directly across from the western block of Parliament Hill stands the National Press Theatre at 150 Wellington Street, the traditional site of news briefings for every prime minister since Lester B. Pearson in 1965. Because of an ongoing feud with the national media, however, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has only set foot in the gallery […]
