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Healthy Distractions II

What the Review masthead is reading, watching, and listening to during the pandemic: Part 2

Ryerson Review of Journalism
April 9, 2020
155 views
6 minute read

Healthy Distractions

What the Review masthead is reading, watching, and listening to during the pandemic: Part 1

Ryerson Review of Journalism
April 8, 2020
265 views
7 minute read

The Threat of “Deep Fake” Text Generation: Pull Quotes Series Three, Episode 10

We fed an advanced text generator numerous RRJ articles to see if it could mirror the…

Ashley Fraser, Mitchell Consky and Tanja Saric
April 2, 2020
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5 minute read

Advice for journalists whose desks are now in the kitchen

We asked eight Canadian freelancers how they manage working from home

Sarah Do Couto
March 23, 2020
963 views
7 minute read

Exploring Innovative Journalism Practices: Pull Quotes, Series Three, Episode Nine

In season three, episode nine of Pull Quotes, the team examines live journalism and…

Ashley Fraser
March 9, 2020
682 views
2 minute read

This Publisher Launched a Contest to Give Her Newspaper Away For $1

How one Saskatchewan paper refused to fold in a shrinking media landscape

Karen Longwell
February 19, 2020
707 views
6 minute read

Rest in feast: The death of food criticism in Canada

Thoughtful food journalists are more crucial than ever.

Neha Chollangi
February 6, 2020
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8 minute read

Hidden History

Voices lost in time are found in a new form.

Madeline Cornacchia
January 22, 2020
852 views
13 minute read

Putting Calls for Racial Diversity in Canadian Media into Action: Pull Quotes Season Three, Episode Eight

In season three, episode eight of Pull Quotes, the team examines diversity in Canadian media. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS

Tanja Saric, Ashley Fraser and Karen Longwell
February 13, 2020
3 minute read

Covering disasters beyond the eye of the storm: Pull Quotes Season Three, Episode Seven

In season three, episode seven of Pull Quotes, the team examines how journalists cover disasters. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS

Tanja Saric, Grace Wells-Smith and Ashley Fraser
February 4, 2020
3 minute read

The Ten Most Celebrated Magazine Covers of the 2010s

The RRJ asked Canadian magazine editors and art directors to share their favourite magazine covers of the decade.

Sabina Seyidova
January 4, 2020
2 minute read

The Decade in Review: Stories that Caught our Attention in the 2010s + Pull Quotes Podcast

A look back at Canadian journalism’s public service reporting this decade. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS

Daniel McIntosh
December 27, 2019
12 minute read

Stakes in the Spaces

Digging into the cultural and political meanings of style guides.

Grace Wells-Smith
December 21, 2019
4 minute read

Chuck Klosterman’s Analysis of a Finished TV Show for a Defunct Website

The RRJ recommends you read Chuck Klosterman’s meditation on “Mad Men” protagonist Don Draper, “A New Don,” written for the now... Read more →

The Award-Winning Canadian Documentary, Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr

The RRJ recommends that you watch Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr released in 2015, and directed by Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard.... Read more →

Two Long Takes From Jimmy Breslin

The RRJ recommends you read “A Death In Emergency Room One” and “A Part of Cop’s Past Lies Dead” by the... Read more →

Kathryn Schulz’s “When Things Go Missing”

The RRJ recommends you read “When Things Go Missing” by Kathryn Schulz, from the Feb. 13, 2017 issue of The New Yorker.... Read more →

Alison Motluk’s “Uncommon Ancestry”

The best health stories are about empathy, about seeing clearly that all that separates you, the reader, from the story’s... Read more →