For Punjabi journalist Jagdish Grewal, reporting can be a matter of life or death
Jagdish Grewal (left) and Paul Knox at the 2012 Press Freedom in Canada conference at Ryerson University. It seemed like any other workday. Jagdish Grewal, editor and publisher of Canadian Punjabi Post, was in his newsroom in Brampton working late after attending a meeting. Around midnight, he walked out into the parking lot and […]
Fighting for Funds
“There are days when I literally run out of bed in the morning due to the pressure of making payroll,” says Rachel Pulfer. Pulfer is the executive director for Journalists for Human Rights, Canada’s largest non-profit media development organization. Seventy percent of her time as executive director is spent fundraising. “In the first year, […]
Journalist in exile
Even though he had already made the decision to flee Mexico many months before, Luis Horacio Nájera didn’t realize what he was leaving behind until the day he fled to live in exile in Canada. As his family was getting in the car, their lives packed into bags in the trunk, Nájera turned back to […]
No Advertisers Allowed: BestStory.ca and the challenge of ad-free content
It’s well known that many news organizations rely on advertisers to pay the bills. But at BestStory.ca, a fairly new website delivering long-form journalism, founder Warren Perley has adopted an ad-free model in an attempt to ensure unbiased reporting. “Ad-free, to me, is the only way to guard our editorial and keep it […]
Canadian University Press: 75 Years of Student Journalism
It’s early January and Canadian University Press’s president Sam Brooks and national bureau chief Arshy Mann sit in their new Yonge Street office in downtown Toronto, putting the finishing touches on the organization’s 75th national conference. Canadian University Press, commonly known as CUP, claims to be “the oldest student news service in the world, […]
Ming Pao: Unionized At Last
Simon Sung grew up reading Ming Pao. Mind you, that was in Hong Kong. Back then he never imagined he’d one day be heading the union, CEP Local 87-M, at the newspaper’s Toronto office. For more than a year, Ming Pao employees fought, first for a union, then for a contract. Sung, a 33-year-old graphic designer […]
Ryerson Review of Journalism Fundraiser
The Ryerson Review of Journalism is celebrating its 30th anniversary with the release of its Summer 2013 issue. However, producing a magazine of professional quality comes with plenty of costs, from printing to art. While we receive tremendous support from the Ryerson School of Journalism, our generous advertisers, and our talented contributors, the current masthead […]
Battle of the Books
There have been plenty of Canadian TV shows in which contestants are showcased live on air, critiqued, and then voted off until a winner remains. Canadian Idol, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, and Canada’s Got Talent immediately come to mind. But, in only one of these shows are the contestants defending novels. CBC’s […]
Tyler Brûlé On Making Magazines
If one thing has stuck with Tyler Brûlé, the founder of Wallpaper* and Monocle, it’s that digital media cannot do what print magazines can do. Brûlé doesn’t have Twitter, Facebook or any other social media. He doesn’t believe in online media at all and follows suit with his magazines. On January 29, the Canadian magazine mogul shared […]
The Quinoa Quandary
“The more you love quinoa, the more you hurt Peruvians and Bolivians,” read the headline on a recent piece by Globe and Mail reporter Amy Verner. Whether you consider yourself a quinoa lover or not, this headline might come as quite a shock. Quinoa, which has been called the “miracle grain of the Andes” and is […]
