Journalists, are you worried about more magazines folding, about the onward march of corporate downsizing, about the steady migration of readers to the Internet? Of course you are! But fear not. At the Ryerson Review of Journalism, we’ve developed a plan for you to stay in the game. You see, journalists really can benefit from… Continue reading Who Needs Journalists?
Category: Winter 2006
War of the Words
Patti Tasko calls it a “huge fight”: Canadian Press (CP) versus the town of Lac La Biche, Alta. No blood was shed, no one was killed, and there were certainly no sex scandals. But calls came into CP, including one from the mayor, with people riled up about one thing: the spelling of the town’s… Continue reading War of the Words
Spoiling for a Fight
The day before her “Situation Critical” series on Sunnybrook hospital’s critical care unit was set to be published in The Toronto Star, health policy reporter Tanya Talaga caught a glimpse of an open spread of that day’s edition of The Globe and Mail on a colleague’s desk. A half-page ad jumped out at her: “Life… Continue reading Spoiling for a Fight