These are the stories we’re watching over the next week. Here is your Weekly Wire: The RCMP revealed top secret files to the CBC and Toronto Star to make its case for broader surveillance powers, including the authority to force people to unlock their phones and for telecoms to provide subscriber information upon request. Police… Continue reading November 21: The RCMP, Facebook’s Fake News, and More
Canada has a Press Freedom Problem
Too many cases of journalistic restrictions have continued into Trudeau’s era, citing security concerns.
Frustrated Chronicle Herald Strikers Target Local Businesses
Tom Ayers and two of his colleagues walk the most remote picket of the Chronicle Herald’s strike. Five days a week for the last 10 months, the three reporters—Ayers, Erin Pottie, and Andrew Rankin—pace up and down a stretch of sidewalk outside their bureau in downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia, across from “the busiest Tim Horton’s… Continue reading Frustrated Chronicle Herald Strikers Target Local Businesses
A Few Words on Esquire’s “A Few Words About Breasts”
The RRJ Recommends you check out Nora Ephron’s “A Few Words About Breasts,” published in Esquire in 1972. Talking about boobs when you’re surrounded by hardlined definitions of gender is a lot more daunting than it sounds. Especially when you’re talking about your boobs. It’s probably why it was hardly ever done. In fact,… Continue reading A Few Words on Esquire’s “A Few Words About Breasts”
The Rock: People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive”
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 The Rock: People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive”
