This week on “Journalists Being Cheeky”: The Halifax Chronicle Herald arranged its pages by theme. A certain British comedian noticed. A Beatles fan snuck into One Yonge Street. And The Australian got a chuckle out of a study on sleep. Remember to follow the Review and its masthead on Twitter. Email the blog editor here. Posted on March 28, 2014
Caught on Camera: How citizen video told Sammy Yatim’s story
By Miro Rodriguez Martin Baron walked home from a late dinner with his wife and son on a warm July night in Toronto, he saw what appeared to be an empty streetcar stopped in the middle of the road. Brushing it off as just broken down, the family continued walking. Suddenly, police officers ran toward… Continue reading Caught on Camera: How citizen video told Sammy Yatim’s story
Breaking faith: are religious newspapers reporting or preaching?
By Luc Rinaldi I don’t have a story. That’s my first thought as I emerge from a downtown subway station on an overcast October afternoon in 2011. I’m on assignment to cover a pro-life rally for The Catholic Register, a Toronto-based religious weekly, but the small turnout—two dozen picketers line the sidewalk—hardly constitutes news. As I… Continue reading Breaking faith: are religious newspapers reporting or preaching?
Campus clampdown: student governments bully the papers that cover them
Last summer, Queen’s University’s The Journal ran a story on the renovation and rebranding of a money-losing campus pub. Two months later, the school’s student government pulled its ads—a large part of the paper’s revenue. The move was, according to co-editor-in-chief Alison Shouldice, “an extreme threat to the democracy of the student body on campus.”… Continue reading Campus clampdown: student governments bully the papers that cover them
That time we launched a magazine
By Daniel Sellers By quarter to nine last Thursday night, the crowd at the back of Toronto’s Esplanade Bier Markt had thinned into discrete, scattered clusters. The party launching the Spring 2014 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism was over, and members of funk and soul cover band Soular were beginning to set up their gear.… Continue reading That time we launched a magazine
