Raylene Knuston was the Editor for the Summer 2011 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. How Designers Think
The Globe and Mail's visual evolution
Innovation in Newspaper Design American newspapers have long been the paragon of newspaper design, but in the past decade many have “lapsed into a lethargy that’s made them homogenized, sanitized and deca einated,” said Mario Garcia, in a 1996 American Journalism Review article. Today many are shackled to a bottom-line mentality as a result of […]
How Designers Think
The Globe and Mail's visual evolution
I stand next to Adrian Norris, The Globe andMail’s managing editor of design and presentation. Norris, with a cardboard cup of cafeteria coffee in hand, gives me a brief tour of his second home: the redesign room, a closet-like visual spectacle of an offi ce tucked in the corner of the third floor. It’s hidden […]
Summer 2011 teasers: How Designers Think
The anatomy of a redesign
A publication makeover is a time-consuming, frustrating and rewarding process. Last fall, The Globe and Mail underwent a visual evolution. Some readers loved it, many hated it. Raylene Knutson explores the anatomy of a newspaper redesign. Check out the whole story in the upcoming issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, which launches May 4 […]
Summer 2011 teaser: Robert Reguly’s big scoop
The story of how a legendary Canadian journalist found the woman everyone was looking for.
It’s 1966 and late Toronto Star reporter Robert Reguly is put on the hunt for Gerda Munsinger, a German call girl and suspected KGB operative who was linked with several ministers in Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s cabinet. Raylene Knutson got the story of how he tracked her down in Munich and broke the story of […]
Howard Green talks about his all-time favourite pieces of journalism
An exclusive, ongoing RRJ series featuring leading Canadian journalists and their top picks for pieces every journalist “must read,” “must watch” and “must listen” to before they die.
TODAY: Broadcaster and documentary filmmaker Howard Green Howard Green is a journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker. He is anchor of the Business News Network’s Headline and Market Call, and the director, writer and co-producer of the Gemini Award-winning documentary The Investigation of Swissair 111. Robert MacNeil: The Right Place at the Right Time (1982) “The […]
Newsroom tour: The Walrus
