The Southam Journalism Fellows at Massey College invite you to attend a panel discussion focussing on how the challenges confronting journalism today affect civic discourse and engagement. The panelists include Ishmael Daro (BuzzFeed Canada); Ed Greenspon (President and CEO, Public Policy Forum); Asmaa Malik (Asst. Professor, Ryerson School of Journalism); and Tanya Talaga (Atkinson Fellow…

The Ryerson Review of Journalism is pleased to announce our upcoming conference "Covering Disaster: a critical lens". In recent times, images of smoldering wildfires, lashing hurricanes, fearsome earthquakes, and devastating mudslides inundated our newspapers, TV screens, and smartphones, feeding a never-ending public fascination with natural disasters and the human cost left in their wake. What…

Join us on Twitter for a wide ranging chat on Bill C-58 and access to information reform, moderated by J-Source's editor-in-chief Patricia W. Elliott. Our panellists include: Holly Doan, publisher of Blacklock's Reporter (@hollyanndoan) Nick Taylor-Vaisey, President of the Canadian Association of Journalists (@TaylorVaisey) David McKie, Ottawa-based journalist in CBC News’ Parliamentary bureau We'll be…

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied. More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died…

Hear from Columbia Review of Journalism (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism) editor and publisher Kyle Pope on why media criticism matters now more than ever. Pope has over a decade of experience as a foreign correspondent and editor at The Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast and The New York Observer. In the summer of…