Sydney Hamilton is Head of Research on the Spring 2016 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism The Writer Who Really Schmecked
Edna Staebler was doing new journalism before it had a name. There's more to her story than best-selling cookbooks
Edna Staebler was doing new journalism before it had a name. There’s more to her story than best-selling cookbooks
A writer’s complicated relationship with freelancing
There’s an increasing trend of writers speaking out against publications that don’t pay their writers. Freelance writers are exploited, they say. Putting in countless hours of research, interviewing and sometimes painful writing sessions filled with self-doubt and lack of sleep can lead to very little in return—sometimes nothing at all. Huffington Post UK editor Stephen Hull […]
Levelling the Playing Field
Women are vastly under-represented in sports journalism, but some female leaders are tackling the skewed gender balance and ingrained sexism
At age 12, Julie Scott was the only girl in a boys’ hockey team. There were no girls’ teams when she was growing up in the 1980s in Guelph, Ontario, but she was determined to play hockey just like her big brother. Buried under padding and sometimes using her brother’s old equipment, she proved she […]
Monocle magazine: “Only old people think print is dead”
While the majority of magazines are shifting to digital, Monocle is thriving as a print magazine
Tyler Brûlé and Andrew Tuck launched Monocle in 2007 as a global, general interest print magazine. Many people were skeptical of a magazine going against the tide–launching print in the alleged digital age. But Monocle’s circulation numbers continue to grow at a fast pace. “As circulations were in decline for a number of magazines, we […]
