On the evening of November 16, 2011, right around 6:30 p.m., a group of 10 women—editors, former co-workers, and friends—gathered at Sally Armstrong’s condo at Yonge and St. Clair streets in Toronto, in honour of what was once seen as just a “little book of recipes”; one that brought them all together once and has… Continue reading A Toast to Homemakers
The Most Tales: Wilf Dinnick
In the third episode of the Ryerson Review of Journalism’s Most Tales video series, former foreign correspondant Wilf Dinnick talks about the most frightening period of his career—launching the online community news site OpenFile.
News over noise
Tony Burman gestures to the projector screen to his left, and it floods with riot footage from the Egyptian revolt against former president Hosni Mubarak. Al Jazeera’s cameras captured scenes that make Toronto’s G20 look like a playground squabble: mobs trying to topple a police van into the Nile, civilians shot while carrying bodies out of the… Continue reading News over noise
NBC: Brian, please don’t gawk at the Lana-mals
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is making news himself for once, after an email correspondence critical of his own network was posted online for all to see. In a private email to Gawker editor Nick Denton sent on January 15 (the pair are apparently friends), Williams criticized the popular media and gossip blog for not featuring enough TV content on… Continue reading NBC: Brian, please don’t gawk at the Lana-mals
Battered and biased
This hasn’t been the most exemplary week for our craft. It’s a week in which popular Independent columnist Johann Hari officially left his job because of plagiarism; in which disgraced journalist (and storyteller) Stephen Glass may be licensed to practise law; in which Rush Limbaugh proposed an investigation into the personal life of the ABC News journalist who had the… Continue reading Battered and biased
