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. Vice Goes Global
How a foul-mouthed upstart became an unlikely outlet of praiseworthy journalism
BAGHDAD, 2006 Iraq’s August sun blasts waves of heat like a blow-dryer to the skin. Under palm tree shade, Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti are surrounded by a motorcade of film crew and AK-47–toting security. They’ve paid $1,500 a day for a bulletproof suv, another car without armour, two drivers, two shooters and a translator […]
Do Anchors Still Matter?
The real meaning of Dawna Friesen
“Welcome home, Dawna Friesen.” Transmitted through television screens, printed in newspapers and plastered across public spaces, the phrase echoed across Canada as the summer of 2010 came to a close. Global Television and Canwest’s $1 million-plus promotional blitz for Friesen, its new national news anchor, was especially intense in Toronto. A tight shot of her […]
The Hampson Interview
Sarah Hampson has made a living writing about the lives of others. Now, for the first time, someone else is asking the questions
Sarah Hampson switches on her small, black digital recorder and is greeted with the sound of her own voice. It’s scratchy and accompanied by static as it travels through the small speaker. She’s playing back an interview with Roméo Dallaire. She’d sat down with the retired Canadian lieutenant-general a few weeks prior to discuss the […]
The Right to Speak Out
How journalists struggle to live up to professional standards while maintaining a strong stance on controversial issues
With a pistol pressed hard into his ribcage, Aaron Berhane remained silent while one of his attackers, whose face was masked by a long, draping hat, muttered an unsettling threat—if he published one more article criticizing his country’s government, he would not live to have another byline. With that, Berhane’s visitors, who introduced themselves as […]
Summer 2011 teaser: Branded!
Branding can sometimes bring more fame and more work, what is the downside?
Branding isn’t just for big corporations anymore. Nowadays, journalists are cultivating personal brands to attract larger audiences and to stand out amid all the noise. But even though branding can sometimes bring more fame and more work, what is the downside? Today on our podcast, Kristen Chamberlain speaks to host Samantha Edwards about her RRJ […]
Summer 2011 teaser: Vice magazine
The story of how the infamous counter-culture mag went from local troublemaker to global brand.
Over the past 15 years, VICE magazine has matured and expanded into an international brand with serious corporate investment and advertising. Along the way it has been a source for some surprisingly great and cutting journalism, but maybe that was the plan from day one. Stephen Baldwin investigates.
Newsroom Tour: CTV’s Canada AM
Former intern Dominique Lamberton takes us on a behind the scenes look at CTV’s Canada AM studio and newsroom.
Summer 2011 teaser: Sarah Hampson
Profiling the profiler
Sarah Hampson is an award-winning journalist best known for her clever columns in The Globe and Mail. Dominique Lamberton spoke with host Samantha Edwards about Hampson’s 18-year career and the experience of profiling the profiler. Check out the whole story in the upcoming issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, which launches May 4 at […]
Summer 2011 teaser: Arts Critics
So you want to be a critic? The pros weigh in.
It’s hard out there for an arts critic. The esteemed opinions of legacy media critics are competing with the voices – and occasional rants – of citizen bloggers and fan tweeters. But who stands to be heard? Is there room for both in future of arts criticism? Ava Baccari’s feature in the Summer issue of […]
Summer 2011 issue LAUNCH PARTY
We finally made it! Come out to celebrate the release of our Summer 2011 issue. There will be drinking, dancing, mingling, laughing, crying and all sorts of other emotional stuff. Also, we’ll have plenty of copies of the magazine on hand and you’ll have a chance to meet the whole masthead, who spent the last […]
