Offleash, the Review’s podcast created by senior editor Viviane Fairbank and multimedia editors Allison Baker and Eternity Martis, is now on iTunes. In honour of this, we made a list of some of our favourite podcasts: all songs considered by NPR Stuff Mom Never Told You by How Stuff Works The Backline – An… Continue reading Offleash is on iTunes!
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Temporarily live from Moscow
Last week, CBC journalists Susan Ormiston, Corinne Seminoff and Jean-Francois Bisson made the 12-hour trek to CBC’s new pocket bureau in Moscow, Russia, where they’ll spend the next three months documenting the transformation of Russian society under Vladimir Putin’s leadership. “Moscow is a place we haven’t been for many years,” says CBC managing editor Greg… Continue reading Temporarily live from Moscow
Canadian MLK Day reporting ignored King’s legacy
Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day is meant to commemorate the life and achievements of the famous civil rights leader. This day often provokes intense debate regarding what King actually stood for, as well as how much (or little) progress has been made in the fight against racism since King was assassinated. These debates often act as… Continue reading Canadian MLK Day reporting ignored King’s legacy
Murder, they wrote wrongly
As the RRJ podcast crew got ready for this week’s episode on indigenous reporting in Canada, we knew it was impossible to talk about indigenous coverage without commenting on the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history. Robert Pickton, a pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, Vancouver, had been raping and killing women, mostly from the… Continue reading Murder, they wrote wrongly
Op-ed: Dear Canadian journalists
Dear Canadian journalists, It’s time we have a serious talk. Yes, you are in trouble. It’s not you, it’s the Paul Godfreys of the world. They have pushed a noble profession closer and closer to falling into a black void of unemployment and no value, the Mount Doom for our seemingly cursed pens (or keyboards, if… Continue reading Op-ed: Dear Canadian journalists