Fatima Syed

24 posts

Fatima Syed is the blog editor of the spring 2016 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.

The 20%

Immigrants and refugees make up one-fifth of people in Canada. Why are so few reporters telling these stories?

Fatima Syed
March 23, 2016

Paul Chiasson, CP

PMJT is hot. Get over it.

Politics is about perception (and always has been). Official messages are carefully…

Fatima Syed
March 11, 2016

Why are we still talking about diversity?

“Is it Fateeema?” asked two editors interviewing me in a boardroom much…

Fatima Syed
February 29, 2016

We’re looking at the wrong numbers

A StatsCan report released on February 15, 2016 shows how different age groups…

Fatima Syed
February 22, 2016

Subsidize or die?

“Should the government get involved?” It’s a question that’s been floating around…

Fatima Syed
February 11, 2016

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 →

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