In the last three or so weeks, NBA player Jeremy Lin has been the subject of much media fodder. The New York Knicks point guard’s sudden rise to fame has been a hot topic in both sports and mainstream news alike. Unfortunately the frenzy surrounding the Asian-American player has resulted in less than stellar news… Continue reading Journalists need not be overtaken by the “Lin-sanity”
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The Grid’s Vanessa Wyse picks her favourite mag covers
This year, The Society for News Design, which recognizes excellence in visual journalism, named Toronto’s own The Grid as the world’s best-designed newspaper for their circulation. “The design is minimalistic and cool,” said the panel. In honour of the honour, we asked The Grid’s creative director, Vanessa Wyse, to pick five of her favourite magazine covers of all… Continue reading The Grid’s Vanessa Wyse picks her favourite mag covers
RRJ-themed Press Pass (because the fun isn’t over just yet)
Greetings, readers! I’m here to inform you of one more great event. Thanks to the always fabulous Nadja Sayej (of ArtStars* fame), the popular journalist-centred booze fest Press Pass is hosting a special RRJ-inspired event. It takes place on Wednesday, April 25, at the Press Club (because where else can you party hard with all your journalist friends and still feel scholastic?).Here’s… Continue reading RRJ-themed Press Pass (because the fun isn’t over just yet)
A celebration: The RRJ Summer 2012 issue launch party
Everything—seven months of planning, discussing, organizing, and executing—led up to this night. It was Thursday, April 5, and we (the Summer 2012 masthead of the Ryerson Review of Journalism) were finally ready to reveal our baby to the masses. And, if I do say so myself, everyone loved her. The evening got started around 5:30… Continue reading A celebration: The RRJ Summer 2012 issue launch party
No, Chris Jones did not write about his wife giving him the terror clamp, thank you
Esquire‘s Chris Jones—and homegrown Canadian writer—is under fire for a 370-word post about how some women aren’t as good in bed as they may think they are. “I’ve slept with you: unenthusiastic, uncomfortable, and uncommunicative, the human equivalent of the space between the couch cushions, only without the bonus possibility of my finding loose change in there,”… Continue reading No, Chris Jones did not write about his wife giving him the terror clamp, thank you