This is a joint byline for the Ryerson Review of Journalism. All content is produced by students in their final year of the graduate or undergraduate program at the Ryerson School of Journalism. Friday Funny: Nixon, Nixon, Nixon!
When Richard Nixon lost the race for governor of California in 1962 (having previously lost the presidency to some rich guy with a funny accent), hetold the press, “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” As on so many other occasions, Nixon was wrong. Thanks to YouTube, it is still very much possible to […]
Good stuff, kid
Don Obe reflects on his career and his longtime love affair with New Journalism, which has taken him from Maclean's to Toronto Life to, in 1983, the founding of this magazine.
By Michael Thomas Don Obe has just learned, after an in-person meeting with Peter C. Newman, that he is going to be an associate editor at Maclean’s. It is early 1972. Since Maclean’s has the same level of prestige in Canada as The New Yorker in the United States, this is big news. Everybody wants to work at Maclean’s because that’s where a […]
Crime-reporting blunders
Reported and produced by Siobhan McClelland, with assistance from Ignacio Estefanell and Ahmad Hathout
Getting in the Game
A panel of experts give advice on how to break into sports journalism on September 18, 2012.
The Amanda Lang Exchange
Besides matching wits with “Mr. Wonderful,” Canada’s highest-profile financial reporter has earned respect by blending real business with show business.
A lively mass of black blazers and BlackBerrys spills into the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall. It’s September 15, 2011, and the group of reporters, bankers, and PR representatives has convened for the Canadian Journalism Foundation‘s forum on the state of financial journalism. The conference falls on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers—the largest […]
To report or to rescue
When is it okay to cross the line from journalist to humanitarian?
Toronto Star columnist Catherine Porter first met the little girl who would pit her journalist’s instincts against her most human impulses on January 24, 2010, almost two weeks after the earthquake that devastated Haiti. The frail two-year-old, who had been pulled from the rubble after nearly a week, was being cared for at a makeshift medical clinic. […]
Alas, poor morgue!
We knew it well. A fond look back at the old-style newspaper library.
It’s 1985, and you’re writing an article about the one-year anniversary of Marc Garneau‘s first trip into space. You start your research by talking to a librarian in the morgue, who assures you that Garneau has his own file in the biography section. He is also included in the space-flight subject file, and there are three […]
The ethics of staging
Lifting the curtain on the rights and wrongs of recreating scenes for TV news.
Last November, Thailand was suffering through its worst flooding in 50 years. While Thai citizens are no strangers to high water levels, the heavy monsoon rains had left more than 800 dead and thousands displaced. As a result, television news crews from around the world were on the ground to put a human face to the […]
Summer 2012 Teaser: The ethics of staging
Danny Viola talks about his upcoming feature “The ethics of staging” in the Summer 2012 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
Summer 2012 Teaser: To report or rescue
Jillian Bell previews “To report or rescue,” her upcoming feature in the Summer 2012 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
