Series: Summer 2013

  Jagdish Grewal (left) and Paul Knox at the 2012 Press Freedom in Canada conference at Ryerson University.   It seemed like any other workday. Jagdish Grewal, editor and publisher of Canadian Punjabi Post, was in his newsroom in Brampton working late after attending a meeting. Around midnight, he walked out into the parking lot and… Continue reading For Punjabi journalist Jagdish Grewal, reporting can be a matter of life or death

  “There are days when I literally run out of bed in the morning due to the pressure of making payroll,” says Rachel Pulfer. Pulfer is the executive director for Journalists for Human Rights, Canada’s largest non-profit media development organization. Seventy percent of her time as executive director is spent fundraising. “In the first year,… Continue reading Fighting for funds

  Even though he had already made the decision to flee Mexico many months before, Luis Horacio Nájera didn’t realize what he was leaving behind until the day he fled to live in exile in Canada. As his family was getting in the car, their lives packed into bags in the trunk, Nájera turned back… Continue reading Journalist in exile

  It’s early January and Canadian University Press’s president Sam Brooks and national bureau chief Arshy Mann sit in their new Yonge Street office in downtown Toronto, putting the finishing touches on the organization’s 75th national conference.      Canadian University Press, commonly known as CUP, claims to be “the oldest student news service in the… Continue reading Canadian University Press: 75 Years of Student Journalism

  While readers may not notice a publication’s stance on the serial comma or whether it spells smartphone as one word or two, these minutiae are all painstakingly detailed in newsroom Bibles: the style guides. In the case of Canadian newspapers, one of these is likely the CP Stylebook; another is the house style list, assembled… Continue reading Changes in Style