Kevin Hamilton investigates how a major daily newspaper is embracing social media. Look for the story in the Summer 2011 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, launching on May 4 at Tequila Bookworm in Toronto.
Category: Summer 2011
Branded
It was November 2006 and I sat in my high school’s library as a university representative lectured a group of bored Grade 12 students about the importance of post-secondary education. I knew I was going to university. Both my parents had degrees, my brother was about to graduate, and to avoid that dreaded “black sheep”… Continue reading Branded
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Globe and Mail culture reporter Kate Taylor has a flair for the dramatic, which she proved again one evening when she made a rather perplexing analogy: a respectable film critic should possess the same omniscient authority as celebrity handyman Mike Holmes. She was speaking at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall, where a group… Continue reading Thumbs Down