TEASER: Talk is Cheap
Here is a sneak peek at one story from our Spring 2015 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism magazine.
Silenced Spring
Environmental reporters are turning to crowdfunding—but their voices are becoming whispers in the noise of news
Environmental reporters are turning to crowdfunding—but their voices are becoming whispers in the noise of news
Stories Behind the Shots – Marta Iwanek
2015 Tom Hanson #Photojournalism award winner Marta Iwanek shares the emotional stories behind her photos.
The dangerous pride of the innumerate journalist
The following is a guest post from this year’s Review instructor Tim Falconer. “I suck at math—that’s why I went into journalism” has been a humblebrag since before the invention of the humblebrag. I heard people chortle about their mathematical incompetence back when I was a student and I still hear them laughing today. My reaction […]
Paying to write
It was the wee hours of the morning when I finished writing my first op-ed about another failed Toronto FC campaign and the frustrations of being a season ticket holder. I had no idea how difficult it could be to translate my thoughts to paper. After reading it for what felt like the thousandth time to […]
The Most Tales: Emma Prestwich
The RRJ sat down with Emma Prestwich from the Huffingtonpost.com to hear her most bizarre moment in her career. This is one you don’t want to miss—it includes a human head!
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 […]
Can crowdfunded Ricochet survive to create a journalistic utopia?
Ricochet is the latest attempt to unite crowdfunding and journalism in Canada. On October 2, Ricochet launched as an independent, interactive, investigative and not-for-profit online news outlet with a promise to embrace Canadian identity by producing bilingual content. Their campaign video was posted on Indiegogo on May 20 and managed to raise an impressive $82, […]
A novel approach
Fiction and journalism are contradictory, but equally relevant ways of getting at the truth.
By Jennifer Cheng It’s September 1982, and Linden MacIntyre has just sneaked into the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut with his camera crew and a taxi driver. Lebanon is in the midst of a civil war, and a week earlier, Christian militia had slaughtered hundreds—possibly thousands—of Palestinians. As the CBC broadcast journalist watches a front-end loader […]
