Ryerson Review of Journalism

A Different Alberta View

Michelle Kuran — Thu, 04 Mar 2010

With her "un-Albertan" magazine, founding editor Jackie Flanagan is trying to show her province isn't all rednecks, cowboys and oil tycoons

Reckless Disregard?

Whitney Wager — Fri, 26 Feb 2010

Amanda Lindhout has taken a lot of flak for her sally into Somalia. But maybe she’s more latter-day Kit Coleman than "cowboy"

Report on Silver Linings

Wed, 31 Dec 1969

All the good news that’s fit to print: facts and arguments against the Globe’s special sections

Too White

Leslie Joynt — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

Canada has changed. Our major dailies haven’t. Why aren’t they doing more to make sure they’re read all over?

All Work, No Pay

Paul Jay — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

Graduates are finding work at magazines, but at slave wages. Are unpaid positions great experience or exploitation?

Lights! Camera! No Action?

Iain Mitchell — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

If the National Film Board can’t stop the recurring charges of irrelevance, we may lose one of our most thoughtful forms of journalism

An Ominous Sign

Cheryl Stepan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

The Toronto Sun billboard that linked immigrants and crime should have been setn back where it came from

Rex Appeal

Mariam Mesbah — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

How many Newfies does it take to host a national call-in show, inflame the nation with small-screen soliloquies, produce incisive documentaries and still read six hours a day? Just one

Academic Question

Jazz Miller — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

If journalism is worth doing, why isn’t it worth studying?

Someone’s in the Kitchen with Rona

Ronnilyn Pustil — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

When Rona Maynard became editor at Chatelaine, she called her magazine Canada’s biggest kitchen table. Her intention was to serve up food for thought. But right now, we’re getting too many leftovers

Missing the Boat

Lesley J. Furlong — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

Project Censored Canada’s mandate is to shine light on under-reported stories. But to do that successfully, it has to do a better job of illuminating itself

The Unblinking Eye

Patricia D’Souza — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

Thou shalt not edit. Thou shalt not hire anchors. Thou shalt not opine. CPAC labours under strict commandments. Is the result boring as sin—or is it journalism at its purest?

United We Falter

Connie Febbraro — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

In an anti-union age, can Canada’s major print guild get back in fighting form?

Back of the Pack, Baby!

Shannon Murphy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

For all the ground that women have gained, they still catch-up in the world of jock journalism

www.clueless.@nd.hopeless.ca

Craig Saila — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

Net Newspapers of the Great White North

The Final Frame

Julie Tanenbaum — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

Twilight descends on the luminous art of photojournalism

Live from the Plains of Abraham

Dana Bookman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

It’s Canada: A People’s History, the CBC $25 million, 30 hour, 15 episode attempt to show us the way we were

The Tragically Square

Kali Pearson and Claire Sibonney — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

How the papers are, like trying to, um, attract teen readers—or whatever

Overshadowed

Ingrid Nielsen — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

A big broadcasters eclipse small stations, local news is getting left in the dark

Here He Comes to Save the Day!

Shane Dingman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a community of champion and a readership and ratings booster. Why action-line heroes make big news by standing up for the little guy.