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One Year Later, The Sprawl Is a Quiet Riot

(L-R): Natasha Campagna (DMZ Sandbox), Ashutosh Syal (DMZ Sandbox), Jeremy Klaszus (The Sprawl), Asmaa Malik (Ryerson School of Journalism), Kevin Chan (Facebook). (Photo: Celina Gallardo)

In a year, Jeremy Klaszus has won $100,000, crowdfunded over $5,000, and spotlighted underreported stories—and he’s just getting started

Journalism schools introducing Indigenous reporting courses

It's been two years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada called for the next generation of journalists to be taught about Indigenous issues. (Annie Arnone/RRJ)

The moves were in response to recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC).

What’s in the public interest? The Snowden Archive

The small cooperative work space for journalism students at Ryerson was crowded with professors, working journalists, community members and the few j-schoolers who could squeeze in. Suddenly, U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden appeared on a large screen—the moment we were waiting for. I was prepared to live blog the event, but being a journalist, a thought… Continue reading What’s in the public interest? The Snowden Archive

Sketches of Obe

Don Obe 1936-2014 No better magazine editor ever put pencil to paper than Don Obe. And that’s when he would have stopped me. “Awkward sentence, Paul,” he would have said. “And what kind of pencil? Short? Stubby? 2B? HB? Eraser? Details, Paul, details.” I met Don at this time of year in 1961… Continue reading Sketches of Obe

Mighty Mouth

Inside a classroom in the Bancroft Building at the University of Toronto, fluorescent lights buzz above Heather Mallick’s head as she sits behind a long desk, poised in a long-sleeved dark blue dress, wide-eyed and nodding at a student in her continuing education course, Town Hall: The Bush Legacy. It’s her first time teaching this… Continue reading Mighty Mouth