These are the stories we’re watching over the next week. Here is your Weekly Wire: Toronto Star reporter Jennifer Yang will take on the brand-new “identity and inequality” beat. The Star continues to “reshape the newsroom” as several other changes announced on November 18 take effect. Other new beats include “legal affairs” with Jacques Gallant and a… Continue reading November 28th: The Star’s New Beats, Postmedia’s Buyouts and Bonuses, and more
Category: The Magazine
Journalists Take Activist Stance in Sports Coverage
“It’s just sports” is no longer an acceptable brush-off of the blatant racism in society’s most popular pastimes.
George Takei’s “They Interned My Family. Don’t Let Them do it to Muslims”
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Court Coverage: How Headlines Confront Archaic Laws
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 Court Coverage: How Headlines Confront Archaic Laws
Going Full Circle
How two ex-Postmedia employees went from layoffs to a 360-video startup.