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14 Apr

Student journalism WIN

Last week, The College of New Jersey’s student paper, The Perspective, published an interview with Mike Huckabee, in which the former Governor of Arkansas said some colourful things about same-sex […]

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6 Apr

Ken Whyte versus the RRJ

Not 24 hours after a Ryerson Review of Journalism story on publisher Kerry Mitchell went online, Rogers publisher Ken Whyte sent a letter to the editor expressing his “disappointment” with […]

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23 Mar

UBC student paper prints special colours issue

Last week, the University of British Columbia’s student paper, The Ubyssey, published a special issue—the Colours Issue—that features articles exploring race and diversity at the Vancouver-based school. The series features […]

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1 Feb

J-schoolers take their know-how and get out of the classroom

Journalism students at Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario have collaborated and put their course work out there into the real world, publishing an online, multimedia series on […]

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4 Jan

Can Metro Toronto put out a strong paper without staff writers?

Metro Toronto, the biggest commuter paper in the country, has the smallest number of reporters. None, actually, writes reporter and J-Source Students’ Lounge editor Melissa Wilson in a story for […]

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19 Nov

Is it time to ditch the YCJA?

Many questions and controversies have popped up in the years since the Young Offenders Act came about in 1984 (and continued when the act was replaced in 2003 by the […]

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10 Nov

Canwests do what the sergeant says training for war reporting

Most news organizations send reporters for special hostile environment training to prepare for Afghanistan, but in his article “College for Killing Fields,” King’s Journalism Review reporter Geoff Davies learned that […]

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23 Oct

Can Derek Webster save RD? The RRJ reports

Reader’s Digest Canada has over six million readers and an ambitious new editor hired from one of the country’s most daring small magazines. Ryerson Review of  Journalism reporter Matthew Halliday […]

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11 Aug

The muck is good, I promise

Ryerson Review of Journalism editor Chantal Braganza sees the arsenal of web weapons new media provides and wonders why they haven’t spawned more in-depth reporting and must-read reportage. The second […]

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20 May

Outsourcing copy-editing to India

In “Passages to India”, a feature article for the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Sarah Bridge examined the practice of outsourcing of newspaper copy-editing to India. Bridge talked about what she […]

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