Fatima Syed

Op-ed: Dear Canadian journalists

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 […]

 Ryerson Review of Journalism

Sketches of Obe

Sketches of Obe

A digital wake of salutes and stories for the Review founder, pioneer of Canadian literary journalism and rebellious spirit

 Don Obe 1936-2014     No better magazine editor ever put pencil to paper than Don Obe. And that’s when he would have stopped me. “Awkward sentence, Paul,” he would have said. “And what kind of pencil? Short? Stubby? 2B? HB? Eraser? Details, Paul, details.” I met Don at this time of year in 1961 […]