PODCAST: Allegations of Jian Ghomeshi & the role of journalists covering sexual assault
We spoke with Celine Cooper from Montreal’s The Gazette, Scaachi Koul from Hazlitt, Robyn Urback from the National Post and Margaret Wente from The Globe and Mail about how the issues surrounding sexual assault, rape and abuse should be covered by journalists. Listen here:
Missed opportunity: the Rice video was about domestic abuse, not sports
When a football player hit a woman in an elevator, journalists were quick to write about it, but too many wrote about the wrong issue
By Alanna Kelly There are many viral videos that The Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti refuses to watch, but she had to see the video that showed Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. As disgusting as it was, it showed an issue that people needed to talk about. The couple had just left […]
Government secrecy thwarts coverage of spill at B.C. mine
Without access to inspection reports, journalists can’t report what really happened at Mount Polley
By Cormac McGee Out at the Mount Polley mine site in south-central British Columbia in mid-September 2014, Gordon Hoekstra found himself with a few hours to kill before his flight back to Vancouver. The mine’s dammed tailings pond—which holds fine rock particles left over after the ore is extracted—had breached a few weeks earlier on […]
Social media and television news: never the twain shall meet
After seven months on air, CTV's Kevin Newman Live gave up trying to bridge the gap between online interaction and traditional broadcast journalism
By: Erica Lenti It started with a shaky, selfie-angled smartphone shot. Kevin Newman, then 54, held his device up for the opening monologue of his new TV show the same way a teenager would at the club—arm raised, head slightly tilted. He then began the broadcast straight from his smartphone. The night’s top story, Newman […]
Stories Behind the Shots – Peter Bregg
Peter Bregg has been capturing Canadian history on the run through his lens for 48 years. He is the first photojournalist to win the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Watch now to learn about the stories behind the shots he takes.
Podcast: Emergent.Info
Do pumpkin spice condoms exist or what about a three breasted lady? Arielle Piat-Sauve met with Craig Silverman, founder of Emergent.Info, a real time rumour tracker. Listen here:
Spring 2015: Meet the Masthead
Meet this years Spring 2015 Masthead for the Ryerson Review of Journalism. We turned it around on our journalists and asked them the questions.
