Steve Ladurantaye, media reporter at The Globe and Mail, is blunt: “If we don’t find a way to add revenue, then there’s not going to be a newspaper in five years. This goes for the Globe and everyone else. You can’t lose money forever.” Which is why, almost two years after The New York Times introduced its metered subscription model,… Continue reading Up against the walls
Regretting the error
Mistakes happen. In the case of the Toronto Star, they happened at least 415 times last year. That’s the number the Star’s public editor, Kathy English, cited in her end-of-year grovel “A Year in Corrections.” Worse, she noted that the paper’s print corrections in 2012 were up 10 percent over the previous year, and that there had been a… Continue reading Regretting the error
Talking with Ivor Tossell
Ivor Tossell is a former online-culture columnist for The Globe and Mail, but since the recent publication of his e-book, The Gift of Ford, he has become one of Toronto’s resident experts on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. The Ryerson Review of Journalism sat down with Tossell to talk about how he stayed unbiased while writing about one of Toronto’s most controversial mayors, whether he ever spoke… Continue reading Talking with Ivor Tossell
Media Tour: Alberta Oil
Crime-reporting blunders
Reported and produced by Siobhan McClelland, with assistance from Ignacio Estefanell and Ahmad Hathout
