Students' Lounge
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.
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.
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.
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age is muddying the waters, and the Ryerson Review of Journalism is questioning whether the YCJA is quickly becoming outdated.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 05, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
The hunger for information won't die just because the mode of delivery evolves, writes Ryerson Review of Journalism editor Marit Mitchell. The first of two annual RRJ issues covers old-media giants (Robert Hurst, Terance Corcoran), new faces (Sarah Fulford, citizen journalists) and dying breeds (headline specialists, indie alt-weeklies).
The hunger for information won't die just because the mode of delivery evolves, writes Ryerson Review of Journalism editor Marit Mitchell. The first of two annual RRJ issues covers old-media giants (Robert Hurst, Terance Corcoran), new faces (Sarah Fulford, citizen journalists) and dying breeds (headline specialists, indie alt-weeklies).
Apr 24, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
The 2009 issues of the Ryerson Review of Journalism were launched this month at a gathering in Toronto. The Spring edition of the award-winning mag is now available on newsstands. Here are some of the highlights...
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