Fatima Syed

PMJT is hot. Get over it.

PMJT is hot. Get over it.

Politics is about perception (and always has been). Official messages are carefully constructed to paint a specific type of picture. It’s the journalist’s job, theoretically at least, to find the flaws and the hidden distortions in that image. But what if the picture is perfect and makes everyone happy? A hot prime minister meets a […]

 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 […]