What’s most important for the Review’s future? You

Photo by Allison Baker

Dear readers, After more than a year of questions and discussion about the future of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, our plan’s building blocks are in place. It will be an audience-focused, audience-driven, audience-supported multiplatform magazine brand that continues to include an annual print edition, plus much more. By audience, we mean you. But first,… Continue reading What’s most important for the Review’s future? You

The future of the Review: Your suggestions wanted

Dear readers, As the publisher of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, I am writing to ask you to contribute to the current rethinking of the Review’s operational plan and editorial mission. You may be aware that this spring, I began asking colleagues, students and others to join in a consideration of the Review’s options. While… Continue reading The future of the Review: Your suggestions wanted

Offleash podcast: An introduction

  Welcome to the Ryerson Review of Journalism‘s first-ever regular podcast, published on RRJ.ca every second Wednesday at 3:33 p.m. In our introductory episode, we get to know our hosts and learn what to expect from RRJ Offleash. Music in this episode courtesy of Paul Nathan Harper, also known as A F L O A T.… Continue reading Offleash podcast: An introduction

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: RRJ speaks to Mohamed Fahmy

RRJ blog editor Fatima Syed speaks to Mohamed Fahmy, who arrived in Toronto on Sunday after being detained on terrorist charges in Egypt.

Mohamed Fahmy has been toeing the line between being a journalist and being a story for over a year now. As the former Al Jazeera bureau chief in Cairo, Fahmy, 41, was arrested in Egypt in 2013 with two colleagues and convicted of terror-related charges. The case, the court trials, the journalist and his family have… Continue reading EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: RRJ speaks to Mohamed Fahmy

Jesse Brown: saviour, danger, jerk?

Photo courtesy CANADALAND

Last Tuesday evening I learned some new things from Jesse Brown: he and a friend made the song that opens his show Canadaland, News Canada—which provides free editorial content—sources articles from the federal government and, well, that’s about it. “The news, Jian and me: a conversation with Jesse Brown,” was advertised as two hours of… Continue reading Jesse Brown: saviour, danger, jerk?

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