Students' Lounge

Apr 14, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor

Mike Huckabee tries to slam a college newspaper in New Jersey—and fails.

Apr 06, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor

Not 24 hours after a Ryerson Review of Journalism story on publisher Kerry Mitchell went online, Rogers publisher Ken Whyte sent a letter to the editor expressing his “disappointment” with the way his comrade was portrayed.

UBC student paper prints special colours issue

Mar 23, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor

Last week, the University of British Columbia’s student paper, The Ubyssey, published a special issue—the Colours Issue—that features articles exploring race and diversity at the Vancouver-based school.

J-schoolers take their know-how and get out of the classroom

Feb 01, 2010 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor

Journalism students at Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario have collaborated and put their course work out there into the real world, publishing an online, multimedia series on DIY culture.

Can Metro Toronto put out a strong paper without staff writers?

Jan 04, 2010 - Posted by Regan Ray

Metro Toronto, the biggest commuter paper in the country, has the smallest number of reporters. None, actually, writes reporter and J-Source Students' Lounge editor Melissa Wilson in a story for the online edition of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. She examines the staffing changes at the paper in 2009.

Is it time to ditch the YCJA?

Nov 19, 2009 - Posted by Melissa Wilson - Students' Lounge Editor

Many questions and controversies have popped up in the years since the Young Offenders Act came into force in 1984 (and continued when the act was replaced in 2003 by the Youth Criminal Justice Act), not the least of which had to do with press's inability to publish the names of youth accused of a crime, especially a heinous one. Now, it seems the internet age is muddying the waters, and the Ryerson Review of Journalism is questioning whether the YCJA is quickly becoming outdated.

Canwests do what the sergeant says training for war reporting

Nov 10, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray

Most news organizations send reporters for special hostile environment training to prepare for Afghanistan, but King's Journalism Review reporter Geoff Davies learned that Canwest doesn't.

Can Derek Webster save RD? The RRJ reports

Oct 23, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray

Reader’s Digest Canada has over six million readers and an ambitious new editor hired from one of the country’s most daring small magazines. Ryerson Review of Journalism reporter Matthew Halliday examines the mag under a new editor. He asks: Can Derek Webster save the old standby from irrelevance?

The muck is good, I promise

Aug 11, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray

Ryerson Review of Journalism editor Chantal Braganza sees the arsenal of web weapons new media provides and wonders why they haven't spawned more in-depth reporting and must-read reportage. The second of two annual RRJ issues covers various hot spots in the industry including outsourcing to India, John Macfarlane's Walrus, trouble at shelter mags and the trials and triumphs of female sports journalists.

Outsourcing copy-editing to India

May 20, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray

In "Passages to India", a feature article for the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Sarah Bridge examined the practice of outsourcing of newspaper copy-editing to India.

Bridge talked about what she discovered while writing the article in an interview with Andy Barrie on Metro Morning, CBCs Southern Ontario morning radio program.

Listen to the interview.

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