Finding your subject with Hannah Yoon
The Tom Hanson Award-winning photographer explains how she captures the perfect shot.
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Brampton’s ethnic media strategy an experiment in reaching out to newcomers
Efforts by the City of Brampton to reach newcomers through ethnic media will be an important test of how municipalities can better communicate with newcomers, particularly those who struggle with English.
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Laurie Few from Global’s 16X9 on investigative journalism
Before she picks up a hidden camera, 16×9 executive producer Laurie Few consults with a lawyer.
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How training inspired me to bring journalism and IT together
Over the last few years Kanina Holmes has felt a growing disconnect between the aptitudes and skills we want to cultivate in young journalists and what we can actually cover within curricular, institutional, attention and time constraints.
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Finding reporters who are “Offbeat”
As newsrooms shrink, reporters juggle multiple duties while carving out a niche for themselves.
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Learning how to interview doctors, by actually interviewing them
Ryerson and U of T combine forces to train doctors and journalists on interviewing skills.
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Inside the Ryerson Review of Journalism’s #WhyDiversity
We talk about “diversity” a lot but rarely do we understand or directly address the personal turmoil or long-lasting impact it has on the people and communities the term defines.
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College class project spurs Nova Scotia government to take action
Student project looks at the stunning fact that 200 years after the first Black settlers came to Nova Scotia, many people still do not have legal title to their land.
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Is journalism school enough, or should you be studying more?
By Badri Murali After Marco Chown Oved finished his master’s in philosophy at the Sorbonne, in Paris, he was looking around for work. He was not particularly looking for a career in journalism, but when a friend told him of a contract reporter position with the Associated Press in 2007, he applied and got the…
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How journalism students are taught to tell Aboriginal stories
By Meagan Gillmore The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s mandate ended last year. Among its 94 items believed crucial for reconciliation is a call for journalists to tell Aboriginal history well—beginning with students. Of the three items directed to the media, one calls on post-secondary journalism and media programs to require all students to…