Saburah Murdoch was the Online Editor for the Summer 2011 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Journalists with Disabilities Just Want to Be Journalists
They don’t want to be stereotyped as “disability reporters” or advocates, but if journalists with disabilities don’t cover these issues, who will?
When Catherine Frazee applied to study journalism at Carleton University in the 1970s, a senior official at the school told her she would not be able to “elbow her way into the scrum on Parliament Hill” and shouldn’t pursue a career in journalism because she was disabled. She then gave up her scholarship and her […]
Broken Pencil co-founder Hal Niedzviecki offers up his Must-List
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: Writer, editor and pop culture critic Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki is the author of ten books including The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbours, which was listed as one of Oprah’s top-25 reads for the summer and the inspiration of the much-anticipated documentary of the same name. He […]
