The Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald have rightly earned praise this week for their sprawling and devastating series, “Fatal Care,” on the unreported deaths of 145 children in foster care since 1999. It’s a masterwork of investigative reporting: a six-part series on a matter of public interest involving a vulnerable population; documents posted online; an… Continue reading Fatal Care” and the sad state of access to information
Do Rob Ford reporters have a transparency problem?
By Luc Rinaldi On a summer afternoon in August 2011, Globe and Mail investigative reporter Greg McArthur sent an email to his editor with the subject line, “Ideas.” Inside, he suggested: “A portrait of Rob Ford as a young man—who is Rob Ford, really?” Alongside freelancer Shannon Kari, McArthur called Ford’s high school classmates and hunted down yearbooks.… Continue reading Do Rob Ford reporters have a transparency problem?
All journalism, all the time
Even though the Review has moved to a one-issue-per-year publishing schedule, we’re not about to leave you without thorough and thoughtful journalism until March. Today, we’ve posted senior editor Luc Rinaldi’s take on the Ontario Press Council hearings into the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail’s reporting on the Ford scandal. (Rinaldi previously wrote a quick take on the hearings for the… Continue reading All journalism, all the time
What we lose when we lose a magazine”
When the world’s oldest person dies, the joker’s natural response is, “Again?!” The punchlines are somewhat more difficult to come by when an institution passes. News came out this week that horseracing trade magazine The Canadian Sportsman, all of 143 years old, will not celebrate a 144th birthday. Three years younger than the country, it… Continue reading What we lose when we lose a magazine”
The Ryerson Review ebook: get it while it’s hot
Thanks to all the friends of the Review who came out to our ebook launch party at Measure earlier this week. If you missed the party, don’t miss the main event. RRJ in Review: Thirty Years of Watching the Watchdogs is now available on Amazon for a paltry $4.78—less than a venti latte. Do you… Continue reading The Ryerson Review ebook: get it while it’s hot
