Yusur was the head of research and writer for the 2014-2015 issue of the Review. She was a second year MA of Journalism student and a freelance journalist with keen interest on politics and human rights. Yusur is a Twitterholic! Mandela: covering the death of a giant
It’s an unfortunate truism that terrible events beget excellent journalism, and the death of Nelson Mandela is no different. Journalists have had ample time to prepare coverage for his passing, and it shows. Here is our selection of some of the best Canadian coverage of Mandela’s life and legacy: Months ago, when Mandela’s health was […]
Newsweek rises from the dead, kind of, maybe”
Newsweek lied to us. Less than a year ago, the magazine said: It turns out the magazine’s new owners—after the death of NewsBeast, which we still can’t believe once seemed like a good idea—have different ideas. In the new year, they’re going to bring the 80-year-old magazine out for another shot at print. Editor Jim […]
CBC’s NSA story: who redacts the redacters?
Last week, we wrote about redactions in freedom of information requests, but how do news outlets decide what of their own material to black out? Christopher Parsons, for one, can’t figure that out. Parsons, a postdoctoral fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs who is studying “how privacy (particularly informational privacy, expressive privacy and […]
Wall Street Journal falsely claims that CBC paid for NSA docs”
After CBC’s report three days ago that the National Security Agency (NSA) had set up camp at the American embassy in Ottawa during the 2010 G20 Summit with support from the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), The Wall Street Journal reporter Alistair MacDonald tweeted: . @CBC admits it paid taxpayer’s money to @ggreenwald for access […]
Friday Funny: the latest on Anna Nicole Smith
Had she lived, Anna Nicole Smith would have celebrated her 46th birthday yesterday. But as you may have heard, she died in 2007. You certainly heard if you were anywhere near CNN at the time. Kudos to Blitzer for keeping his legendary straight face through that one. Remember to follow the Review and its masthead […]
Fatal Care” and the sad state of access to information
The Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald have rightly earned praise this week for their sprawling and devastating series, “Fatal Care,” on the unreported deaths of 145 children in foster care since 1999. It’s a masterwork of investigative reporting: a six-part series on a matter of public interest involving a vulnerable population; documents posted online; an […]
All journalism, all the time
Even though the Review has moved to a one-issue-per-year publishing schedule, we’re not about to leave you without thorough and thoughtful journalism until March. Today, we’ve posted senior editor Luc Rinaldi’s take on the Ontario Press Council hearings into the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail’s reporting on the Ford scandal. (Rinaldi previously wrote a quick take on the hearings for the […]
What we lose when we lose a magazine”
When the world’s oldest person dies, the joker’s natural response is, “Again?!” The punchlines are somewhat more difficult to come by when an institution passes. News came out this week that horseracing trade magazine The Canadian Sportsman, all of 143 years old, will not celebrate a 144th birthday. Three years younger than the country, it […]
The Ryerson Review ebook: get it while it’s hot
Thanks to all the friends of the Review who came out to our ebook launch party at Measure earlier this week. If you missed the party, don’t miss the main event. RRJ in Review: Thirty Years of Watching the Watchdogs is now available on Amazon for a paltry $4.78—less than a venti latte. Do you […]
Friday Funny: #JFK50 #ouch #fail
With the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, many news outlets “live”-tweeted the day’s events as they happened. Feeds like @JFK_1963, @todayin1963 (by NPR) and our own @CdnPress (for today) are following in the footsteps of @RealTimeWWII in this live-ish exercise. As JFK’s limousine was winding through the streets of Dallas, CP’s […]
