Fatima Syed

In pictures: Great journalism fails of 2015

In pictures: Great journalism fails of 2015

As the year comes to an end, we "draw" a glance back to the big moments in Canadian journalism in 2015

Derek Finkle of the Canadian Writers Group on kill fees and ethics at The Walrus

 Viviane Fairbank

Offleash podcast: Kill fees and story theft

Offleash podcast: Kill fees and story theft

Offleash is the Ryerson Review of Journalism‘s first-ever regular podcast, published on RRJ.ca every second Wednesday at 3:33 p.m. In this week’s episode of RRJ’s Offleash, Viviane and Allison speak to Alex Gillis, who recently made news in the journalism industry after his story was killed then used by The Walrus. We also interview Derek Finkle from […]

 Fatima Syed

Can Seven-Minute Speeches Save a Magazine?

Can Seven-Minute Speeches Save a Magazine?

How The Walrus Talks series is helping to keep a venerable publication alive

A heavy silence takes over the room as Sylvia Maracle, executive director of the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres, takes a pause during her seven-minute speech. “You need to make sure that when people arrive they understand that some of the trauma they have left is the trauma that exists here for the original people […]

 Eternity Martis

How to Sell a Magazine in Three Seconds or Less

How to Sell a Magazine in Three Seconds or Less

We talked to top editors about what goes into crafting an issue’s first impression and if it still even matters

For seven years, Toronto Life editor Sarah Fulford has seen the glossy covers of her magazine go through a demanding selection process before hitting newsstands. Since the editorial and art direction teams, as well as the publisher, are involved, the final version is often the result of many revisions and even late changes. The May […]

 Cormac McGee

Jesse Brown: saviour, danger, jerk?

Jesse Brown: saviour, danger, jerk?

Last Tuesday evening I learned some new things from Jesse Brown: he and a friend made the song that opens his show Canadaland, News Canada—which provides free editorial content—sources articles from the federal government and, well, that’s about it. “The news, Jian and me: a conversation with Jesse Brown,” was advertised as two hours of […]

 Cormac McGee

The Alumni Essentials: Carly Lewis

The Alumni Essentials: Carly Lewis

Welcome to the Alumni Essentials, or, as it shall be known for the next week: the Carly Lewis show! This is Lewis’s second time featured in this series and she’s the first person ever to fully take it over. Cue applause. She really left us no choice, because whether it’s about Girls, the year’s best albums […]

 Cormac McGee

The Alumni Essentials

The Alumni Essentials

Wondering where our past writers are now? Well, you’ve come to the right place! This year, we’re keeping up with the Review‘s alumni and showcasing our favourite pieces of their current work. First up this week, spring 2007 editor Julia Belluz interviewed Richard Preston—author of The Hot Zone, the non-fiction thriller about Ebola published in 1994—about how […]