The RRJ recommends you check out the Seventh Art, a digital magazine with a unique take on Canadian film. Toronto has a lopsided film culture. TIFF, one of over 75 film festivals in the city, is also one of the world’s largest film festivals. Toronto has a gamut of film clubs, from the experimental Early Monthly Segments… Continue reading The Seventh Art takes Canadian Film Criticism to New Heights
Category: The Magazine
Q&A with Daniel Dale
As the world prepares to welcome a new President, the RRJ’s Dylan Freeman-Grist caught up with the Toronto Star‘s Washington correspondent, Daniel Dale. DFG: You’ve become known as one of the most prominent fact-checkers of Trump. Can you talk about your decision to begin focusing on him? DD: Yeah it was mid-September during the campaign and Trump had… Continue reading Q&A with Daniel Dale
Two Women make Headlines with Trudeau and a Selfie
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 Two Women make Headlines with Trudeau and a Selfie
January 16th: Boyden responds, unverified allegations, and more
These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: Last week, the Globe and Mail’s Mark Medley and CBC q’s Candy Palmater separately interviewed novelist Joseph Boyden, whose long-claimed Indigenous ancestry came into question after an APTN investigation last month found little to substantiate it. (Check Karen McCall’s take on the… Continue reading January 16th: Boyden responds, unverified allegations, and more
How the Headlines Covered the Controversy Over Joseph Boyden’s Heritage
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 How the Headlines Covered the Controversy Over Joseph Boyden’s Heritage