Sumayyah Hussein was the Head of Research for the Summer 2006 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. They Make Us Look Like Dorks!
Why many Canadian Muslims believe the media have an anti-Islam bias—and what two journalistic heavyweights are doing about it
The downtown Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ottawa seems an unlikely place for a conference on religion and the media. It’s about as secular as a building can be, save perhaps for those Gideon Bibles in every room. But on this weekend in late October about eighty people, mostly journalists, have registered for a two-day event […]
Spoiling for a Fight
Two Toronto hospitals, two in-depth series, two newspapers... same day. How did it happen? How did they get access? And what was in it for the hospitals? A behind-the-scenes look
The day before her “Situation Critical” series on Sunnybrook hospital’s critical care unit was set to be published in The Toronto Star, health policy reporter Tanya Talaga caught a glimpse of an open spread of that day’s edition of The Globe and Mail on a colleague’s desk. A half-page ad jumped out at her: “Life […]
