Who’s “in the middle” of this editing gaffe?
Correction: An earlier version of this post identified Pacific Newspaper Group as an advertising subsidiary of Postmedia Network Inc. that acts as a photo service. Pacific Newspaper Group is a division of Postmedia and photographers work in the newsrooms. It also stated that Postmedia has centralized editorial duties in Hamilton, Ontario, but some copy editing […]
Back for another round
It’s time we became your homepage again. The 2014-15 Review masthead is set and we’re picking up where last year’s group left off, just on a much better looking, user-friendly website (seriously, try it on your phone or tablet!). We hope you enjoyed the summer without us breathing down your neck, because starting now we’ll […]
The RRJ Takes Home Some Hardware
As keen followers of our Twitter feed may have noticed, the Review added to its trophy case yesterday, taking home eight awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
As keen followers of our Twitter feed may have noticed, the Review added to its trophy case yesterday, taking home eight awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Miro Rodriguez’s story about how citizen video affects coverage of police shootings earned second place in the “Consumer Magzine Article: Feature” category. In […]
Thanks, Lynn
A long-suffering journalism instructor retires
By Ronan O’Beirne There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes at the Review, and nobody has seen or done more than Lynn Cunningham. A widely respected editor before joining the faculty at Ryerson (she received, among other accolades, the National Magazine Awards’ lifetime achievement award in 1999), Lynn has been a mentor to countless writers […]
Unpaid internships: publishers and government both need to do more
By Jessica Galang Image via Blogging 4 Jobs, appropriately. The unpaid internship has <a” href=”http://www.rrj.ca/m6047/”>long been a point of contention, especially among journalists: do these internships provide eager, budding journalists with the opportunity to gain new skills and get their foot in the industry’s door, or is it akin to slave labour? If the latter, who is […]
How Michael Lewis scooped me
By Christina Pellegrini I’ve read 180 pages of the new Michael Lewis book Flash Boys and like <a” href=”http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/03/31/michael-lewiss-flawed-new-book/”>Reuters blogger Felix Salmon, I haven’t come across anything major that I didn’t already know about high-frequency trading and what it’s done to financial markets. I’ve been interested in HFT for a few years. The first feature I wrote in […]
Friday Funny: from the pages of the Halifax Calorie Herald
This week on “Journalists Being Cheeky”: The Halifax Chronicle Herald arranged its pages by theme. A certain British comedian noticed. A Beatles fan snuck into One Yonge Street. And The Australian got a chuckle out of a study on sleep. Remember to follow the Review and its masthead on Twitter. Email the blog editor here. Posted on March 28, 2014
That time we launched a magazine
By Daniel Sellers By quarter to nine last Thursday night, the crowd at the back of Toronto’s Esplanade Bier Markt had thinned into discrete, scattered clusters. The party launching the Spring 2014 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism was over, and members of funk and soul cover band Soular were beginning to set up their gear. […]
Women in the media: Steve Paikin’s missed opportunity
By Shannon Clarke Image via The Agenda’s YouTube channel. “Where, Oh Where, Are All The Female Guests?” started out well enough. After questions about the lack of diversity on TheAgenda, anchor and senior editor Steve Paikin took his exasperation online. The producers, he wrote, are committed to gender parity, having tried for years to include more women on […]
The Quebecor empire, on which the son refuses to set
By Ronan O’Beirne Don’t panic. Image via Maclean’s. Or, okay, go ahead and panic. Whatever. In case you’ve been living under a rock or haven’t checked your Vidéotron email: Pierre Karl Péladeau (or PKP), who served as CEO of self-styled “communications giant” Quebecor from 1999-2013, and vice-chair thereafter, is running for the Parti Québécois in the […]
