Category: Weekly Wire

April 3rd: Our Annual Issue Hits Shelves (!), Leah McLaren’s Column, and more

These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: It’s a big week for the Ryerson Review of Journalism—our annual print issue is hitting shelves on April 6. It’s one of our biggest issues ever, with features on APTN, the Toronto Star, and Walrus editor Jonathan Kay, amongst others. We’re also… Continue reading April 3rd: Our Annual Issue Hits Shelves (!), Leah McLaren’s Column, and more

March 27th: Makuch’s Bad Day in Court, Trouble at McGill, and more

These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: After a two-year legal battle, Vice News reporter Ben Makuch will likely be forced to surrender his correspondence and interview materials with a Canadian ISIS recruit to the RCMP. Last Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal sided with… Continue reading March 27th: Makuch’s Bad Day in Court, Trouble at McGill, and more

March 21st: The Death of Jimmy Breslin, Slate Staff Votes to Unionize, and more

These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: Jimmy Breslin, the longtime newspaper columnist, novelist, and self-described “street reporter,” died Sunday at his Manhattan home. He was 88. Breslin was writing about humans of New York before Humans of New York, and typically chased the atypical story. In 1963, he… Continue reading March 21st: The Death of Jimmy Breslin, Slate Staff Votes to Unionize, and more

March 13th: Even More Postmedia Layoffs, Vault 7, and more

These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: Postmedia announced last week it will lay off 54 employees from its Pacific Newspaper Group, which includes the Vancouver Sun and Province. The layoffs are the second phase of Postmedia’s most recent round of salary cuts, the first of which saw 38 PNG staffers… Continue reading March 13th: Even More Postmedia Layoffs, Vault 7, and more

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