Copy Rights and Wrongs

From Playboy to the Financial Post, print publications are continuing to move onto the iPad. But as publishing platforms expand, the industry is finding “a new way to exploit work,” says Giuseppina D’Agostino, founding director of IP at Osgoode Hall Law School. She thinks we’ll be seeing more cases like freelancer Heather Robertson’s, who sued… Continue reading Copy Rights and Wrongs

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Shanghoon

Globe and Mail culture reporter Kate Taylor has a flair for  the dramatic, which she proved again one evening when she made a rather perplexing analogy: a respectable film critic should possess the same omniscient authority as celebrity handyman Mike Holmes. She was speaking at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall, where a group… Continue reading Thumbs Down

How Designers Think

I stand next to Adrian Norris, The Globe andMail’s managing editor of design and presentation. Norris, with a cardboard cup of cafeteria coffee in hand, gives me a brief tour of his second home: the redesign room, a closet-like visual spectacle of an offi ce tucked in the corner of the third floor. It’s hidden… Continue reading How Designers Think

Pioneer Spirits

(Note: This is a somewhat longer version of the same story that originally appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of the RRJ – Ed) The local newscast in Victoria, B.C., looks much like any other local news broadcast. A handsome anchorman wearing a smart suit delivers news of the quest to find a young girl’s… Continue reading Pioneer Spirits

Summer 2011 teaser: Branded!

Branding isn’t just for big corporations anymore. Nowadays, journalists are cultivating personal brands to attract larger audiences and to stand out amid all the noise. But even though branding can sometimes bring more fame and more work, what is the downside? Today on our podcast, Kristen Chamberlain speaks to host Samantha Edwards about her RRJ… Continue reading Summer 2011 teaser: Branded!

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