By Christina Pellegrini I’ve read 180 pages of the new Michael Lewis book Flash Boys and like <a” href=”http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/03/31/michael-lewiss-flawed-new-book/”>Reuters blogger Felix Salmon, I haven’t come across anything major that I didn’t already know about high-frequency trading and what it’s done to financial markets. I’ve been interested in HFT for a few years. The first feature I wrote in… Continue reading How Michael Lewis scooped me
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Friday Funny: from the pages of the Halifax Calorie Herald
This week on “Journalists Being Cheeky”: The Halifax Chronicle Herald arranged its pages by theme. A certain British comedian noticed. A Beatles fan snuck into One Yonge Street. And The Australian got a chuckle out of a study on sleep. Remember to follow the Review and its masthead on Twitter. Email the blog editor here. Posted on March 28, 2014
That time we launched a magazine
By Daniel Sellers By quarter to nine last Thursday night, the crowd at the back of Toronto’s Esplanade Bier Markt had thinned into discrete, scattered clusters. The party launching the Spring 2014 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism was over, and members of funk and soul cover band Soular were beginning to set up their gear.… Continue reading That time we launched a magazine
Women in the media: Steve Paikin’s missed opportunity
By Shannon Clarke Image via The Agenda’s YouTube channel. “Where, Oh Where, Are All The Female Guests?” started out well enough. After questions about the lack of diversity on TheAgenda, anchor and senior editor Steve Paikin took his exasperation online. The producers, he wrote, are committed to gender parity, having tried for years to include more women on… Continue reading Women in the media: Steve Paikin’s missed opportunity
The Quebecor empire, on which the son refuses to set
By Ronan O’Beirne Don’t panic. Image via Maclean’s. Or, okay, go ahead and panic. Whatever. In case you’ve been living under a rock or haven’t checked your Vidéotron email: Pierre Karl Péladeau (or PKP), who served as CEO of self-styled “communications giant” Quebecor from 1999-2013, and vice-chair thereafter, is running for the Parti Québécois in the… Continue reading The Quebecor empire, on which the son refuses to set