Coming soon to a television near you: drugs, multicultural robots and foreign places. A year ago, Rogers announced a three-year $100 million content, studio and distribution partnership with Vice Media to produce daily news and long-form content like documentaries on food, fashion, technology and sports. Yesterday, this become a reality as the official trailer for the 24-hour specialty… Continue reading Is Viceland the future of television journalism?
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Scaachi Koul faced some legitimate criticism that shouldn’t be ignored
My fellow blog editor Fatima Syed wrote an important blog post yesterday responding to the Twitter debate regarding BuzzFeed Canada senior writer Scaachi Koul’s appearance on The National. I agree with the main argument put across in Syed’s post: we need to fight for newsroom diversity in order to allow more women of colour to… Continue reading Scaachi Koul faced some legitimate criticism that shouldn’t be ignored
We need to talk about female journalists of colour
As with many things on the internet, it all started with someone stating their 140-character opinion about something they had watched. https://twitter.com/Scaachi/status/661186567831093250 The comment was made in regard to Scaachi Koul’s appearance during a segment on The National about affirmative action in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet. Koul, a senior writer for BuzzFeed Canada, spoke in agreement… Continue reading We need to talk about female journalists of colour
Canadian journalists must support Vice’s fight against the RCMP
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers entered Vice Canada’s offices in Toronto and Montreal in February. The officers served Vice with a production order–similar to a search warrant–demanding “any notes and all records of communication” between Vice reporter Ben Makuch and an ISIL militant. Makuch interviewed the Canadian ISIL militant, Farah Mohamed Shirdon, through Kik Messenger… Continue reading Canadian journalists must support Vice’s fight against the RCMP
Farewell, Richard “Badger” Brennan
Richard Brennan has never called a premier by anything other than his first name. Keith Leslie, long-time Canadian Press reporter covering Ontario politics and the Statler to Brennan’s Waldorf at Queen’s Park, remembers coming back to Toronto from Ottawa the morning after former Premier Dalton McGuinty won the election in 2003. They got on a bus at the… Continue reading Farewell, Richard “Badger” Brennan