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Category: Spring 2017
Teen Vogue Takes on Trump
Hed: (n) Newsroom Jargon for Headlines Headlines are tricky. They have to grab flighty readers’ attention, tell a story, and hopefully even squeeze in a witticism. The smallest choices affect readers’ first impressions and, sometimes, their only take on the story. Once a week, we analyze the different ways news outlets present the same story.… Continue reading Teen Vogue Takes on Trump
How Discourse Media is Addressing Reconciliation
The independent media company tackles the TRC’s Calls to Action
“This is what happens after you die,” Moheb Constandi’s breakdown of the breakdown of the human body
The RRJ recommends you read Moheb Constandi’s essay, “This is what happens after you die,” published on Mosaic on May 5, 2015. There’s beauty in a rotting corpse. It’s a beauty that’s obscured by putrefying flesh and fetid odours, and by our innate fear of death. The kind of beauty that takes a scientist, and a rather dedicated… Continue reading “This is what happens after you die,” Moheb Constandi’s breakdown of the breakdown of the human body
Viola Desmond: How the Headlines Handle History
Hed: (n) Newsroom Jargon for Headlines Headlines are tricky. They have to grab flighty readers’ attention, tell a story, and hopefully even squeeze in a witticism. The smallest choices affect readers’ first impressions and, sometimes, their only take on the story. Once a week, we analyze the different ways news outlets present the same story.… Continue reading Viola Desmond: How the Headlines Handle History