Fatima Syed

What’s most important for the Review’s future? You

What’s most important for the Review’s future? You

A note to readers from Ivor Shapiro, chair, Ryerson School of Journalism, and publisher of the Review

Dear readers, After more than a year of questions and discussion about the future of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, our plan’s building blocks are in place. It will be an audience-focused, audience-driven, audience-supported multiplatform magazine brand that continues to include an annual print edition, plus much more. By audience, we mean you. But first, […]

 Fatima Syed

The rise of the reader

The rise of the reader

In the ecosystem of the web, readers and journalists are now co-dependent species—a relationship we're still trying to grapple with

The former hierarchies of the journalism industry have crumbled by the weight of the digital realm, to be replaced by blurry parallel relations between journalists and readers. The result is evident in the record 10,600 readers who participated in the Toronto Star‘s annual “You be the editor” survey. Administered by the Star’s public editor, Kathy English, the “highly unscientific, […]