The following memo was sent to Toronto Star staff on July 13, from John Honderich, Chair, Torstar Corporation, and Michael Cooke, Editor, Toronto Star. Spelling of Ms. Aulakh’s name is reproduced as it was in the original document. To all newsroom staff: We write today to bring you up to date on efforts made by the company over…
Here’s our regular update on the moves, hires and promotions in Canadian journalism for June 30 to July 13.
By Diana Pereira It’s refreshing to read a book that tells real reporters’ stories from the front lines. That’s Why I’m a Journalist by former CBC journalist and current Ryerson journalism professor Mark Bulgutch is made up of essays from 44 Canadian journalists who write about the most memorable stories that they’ve covered. The stories…
By Jane Gerster In her first column as the Toronto Star’s public editor, Sharon Burnside wryly noted, “Readers will look after the swelled head.” It was March 2005 and she’d held the post all of seven hours, had already written five corrections and was working on two more. The phone had rung: one caller angry…
By Errol Salamon, Work and Labour Editor Before the Internet and World Wide Web became fully commercialized in the mid-1990s, freelance writers and photographers began using computer networks as organizing tools as early as 1992. Even before rights-grabbing contractsbecame the strong concern they are today for freelancers in Europe and North America, and before freelancers launched social…
By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail It has been a banner year for investigative journalism in Canada. Witness the recent spate of awards for work that uncovers malfeasance or shines a light on deeply ingrained societal prejudices and problems. This is an area where the established media excel – if only because it…
By Kathy English for the Toronto Star “Did Nunavut hunter shoot grizzly-polar bear hybrid?” read a headline in the Toronto Star some six weeks ago. As it turns out, the answer to that question is no. The bear that Inuit hunter Didji Ishalook shot during a sanctioned hunt in Nunavut in late May was not…
By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Canada’s new National Newsmedia Council has dismissed – with reservation – a complaint about the Toronto Star’s March report of the Ford family event held at the Toronto Congress Centre to celebrate the life of Toronto mayor Rob Ford. The complaint concerned a question of the accuracy of…
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Anda Zeng A series of photos hangs on Jean LaRoche’s wall. The first shows the president of the Nova Scotia Legislative Press Gallery and CBC journalist amid a group of nine other smiling reporters outside Province House in the late 1990s. The other photo, taken this…
On July 7, the media company released its 2016 third quarter results and details of a proposed recapitalization transaction.