Four editing tips from Hazlitt senior editor Haley Cullingham
Eleven of the magazine pieces she edited last year have been nominated for NMA awards.
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Finding your subject with Hannah Yoon
The Tom Hanson Award-winning photographer explains how she captures the perfect shot.
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How Lisa Gregoire created “Breathing Holes”
By Ilana Reimer Lisa Gregoire has read a lot of court dockets. As the managing editor at Nunatsiaq News, she gets them emailed to her each week so she knows which cases are coming up in the Nunavut Court of Justice. But one day as she opened the standard email in her Ottawa office, she…
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Covering aboriginal issues: Tips from TRC commissioner Marie Wilson
TRC commissioner and former journalist Marie Wilson delivers this year’s 2016 Atkinson lecture on covering aboriginal issues at the Ryerson School of Journalism. Photo courtesy Ilina Ghosh. By Ilina Ghosh for the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre Journalists must embrace their role as educators when reporting on indigenous issues and recognize how their work shapes perceptions,…
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Four lessons from losing a journalism job
By Melanie Coulson It is two years to the day since I ‘lost’ my job in media. I don’t mark it, but it’s hard to forget. It was three days before Valentine’s Day, 2014. It hit me like a truck. It was completely unexpected. So unexpected in fact, the first thought as the envelope detailing… -
Advice for writing about trans people and stories
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor After Caitlyn Jenner came out, many news articles continued to refer to her by her previous name. “Referring to Caitlyn Jenner as her previous name is incredibly disrespectful,” said Steven Little, director of social enterprise, education and advocacy at the 519, a Toronto LGBT community centre. A new guide produced by…