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
Referendum Politics Heat Up (Again) in Scotland
Hed: (n) Newsroom jargon for headlines Headlines are tricky. They have to grab flighty readers’ attention, tell a story, and hopefully even squeeze in a witticism. The smallest choices affect readers’ first impressions and, sometimes, their only take on the story. Once a week, we analyze the different ways news outlets present the same story.… Continue reading Referendum Politics Heat Up (Again) in Scotland
The Markup: Susanne Craig on Trump’s Tax Returns
The best long-form journalism involves a lot of red ink. An editor’s corrections, cuts, and revisions often go unseen by the public. Here at The Markup, our job is to dissect their choices. Episode 5: Susanne Craig on Trump’s Tax Returns New York Times reporter Susanne Craig loves her mailbox. Mailboxes at the Times Metro section… Continue reading The Markup: Susanne Craig on Trump’s Tax Returns
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
Kathryn Schulz’s “When Things Go Missing”
The RRJ recommends you read “When Things Go Missing” by Kathryn Schulz, from the Feb. 13, 2017 issue of The New Yorker. At Toronto’s York Mills subway station a few weeks ago, waiting for the bus driver to come back from wherever bus drivers go when they’re not glowering at you, I took the latest issue of… Continue reading Kathryn Schulz’s “When Things Go Missing”
