2016: 626 jobs cut in 25 days
2016 has been a dismal year for Canadian journalists thus far. Every day seems to bring about a new announcement of massive job cuts. I’ve put together a timeline of all of these cuts so far, just in case you’ve managed to forget (or haven’t been able to keep up). This timeline will (unfortunately) be […]
#JournalismSoWhite
Hashtag decrying the whiteness of journalism trends on Twitter
On Friday night, #JournalismSoWhite trended across the United States and Toronto. The hashtag, a spinoff of #OscarsSoWhite, takes aim at demographic uniformity in journalism. This is a much needed discussion, and one that I tried to add to with my November 2015 article, “The Unbearable Whiteness of Canadian Columnists.” There is more to come from the Ryerson Review […]
A lunch in two languages
Last week, The Globe and Mail published a story in English and Chinese—an attempt to start bridging cultures and readers
In last week’s installment of Report on Business’s weekly profile series, The Lunch, one line brings a whole new side to the story. Appearing right before the opening scene, translated to English: “Click here to read the full article in Chinese.” The piece, written by The Globe and Mail’s Asia-Pacific correspondent Iain Marlow, profiles Mark Rowswell, […]
The high cost of free information
Canada’s highly complex access to information system has spawned a profession of "information warriors" that shouldn't exist
John Dunn is on welfare. To journalists and other curious citizens using Canada’s free information laws to seek out public records, this is his greatest asset. For a small fee (Dunn is allowed to make only $200 per month while receiving government assistance), Dunn will file an access to information (ATI) request on your behalf. […]
Offleash is on iTunes!
To celebrate, here's a list of some of our favourite podcasts
Offleash, the Review’s podcast created by senior editor Viviane Fairbank and multimedia editors Allison Baker and Eternity Martis, is now on iTunes. In honour of this, we made a list of some of our favourite podcasts: all songs considered by NPR Stuff Mom Never Told You by How Stuff Works The Backline – An […]
Temporarily live from Moscow
To maintain a news presence in faraway lands, some organizations are looking to pop-up bureaus as a solution
Last week, CBC journalists Susan Ormiston, Corinne Seminoff and Jean-Francois Bisson made the 12-hour trek to CBC’s new pocket bureau in Moscow, Russia, where they’ll spend the next three months documenting the transformation of Russian society under Vladimir Putin’s leadership. “Moscow is a place we haven’t been for many years,” says CBC managing editor Greg […]
Canadian MLK Day reporting ignored King’s legacy
Why did coverage focus on Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau’s vocal performance?
Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day is meant to commemorate the life and achievements of the famous civil rights leader. This day often provokes intense debate regarding what King actually stood for, as well as how much (or little) progress has been made in the fight against racism since King was assassinated. These debates often act as […]
Offleash Podcast: Indigenous reporting
Offleash is the Ryerson Review of Journalism‘s first-ever regular podcast, published on RRJ.ca every second Wednesday at 3:33 p.m. In this week’s episode, Eternity, our multimedia editor, and guest host Laura Hensley, our departments editor, delve into the issues surrounding indigenous reporting. Stevie Cameron tells us about the process of writing her book, On the […]
Murder, they wrote wrongly
Journalist and author Stevie Cameron sat down with the RRJ to talk about Canadian misconceptions of the trial of Robert Pickton
As the RRJ podcast crew got ready for this week’s episode on indigenous reporting in Canada, we knew it was impossible to talk about indigenous coverage without commenting on the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history. Robert Pickton, a pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, Vancouver, had been raping and killing women, mostly from the […]
Op-ed: Dear Canadian journalists
It's time to take action
Dear Canadian journalists, It’s time we have a serious talk. Yes, you are in trouble. It’s not you, it’s the Paul Godfreys of the world. They have pushed a noble profession closer and closer to falling into a black void of unemployment and no value, the Mount Doom for our seemingly cursed pens (or keyboards, if […]
