Editor’s Letter
Reflections on the making of the Review’s 2023 spring issue from the editorial team
Silas Le Blanc
Silas Le Blanc is a second-year Master of Journalism student at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has previously worked as the Sports Editor and Managing Online Editor at The Varsity, and as an intern at Xtra, and at The Logic. She is currently the news coordinator at CJRU 1280AM, and does production for CBC’s Cross Country Checkup. In her spare time she listens to SOPHIE, Charli XCX, and Bladee.
Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 6: Iman Adem on the conundrums of photojournalism
Tara De Boer talks with Iman Adem about the ethics of photojournalism and exploitation of the subjects of photographs in today’s media environment
Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 5: Hyeji Yoon on Western media coverage of North Korea
In the fifth episode of season six, host Silas Le Blanc talks to Hyeji Yoon about her Review-exclusive story on the way the Western media covers North Korea, and what it misses.
The House Always Wins
Silas Le Blanc investigates the legalization of sports betting and its effects on sports journalism and sports fans, in this audio documentary
Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 4: Carly Penrose on the coverage of the Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal
In the fourth episode of season six, host Tara De Boer talks to Carly Penrose on her Review-exclusive story about carefully navigating the turbulent waters of the Canadian sports industry—and interviewing those who reported on it.
Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 3: Maddy Mahoney on the evolution of advice columns
In the third episode of season six, host Silas Le Blanc talks to Maddy Mahoney on her Review-exclusive story about the history of advice columns, their advice columnists, as well as how the medium has evolved throughout the years.
Pull Quotes: Season 6, Episode 2: Tony Milton on the fall of Now Magazine
In the second episode of season six, host Tara De Boer interviews Anthony ‘Tony’ Milton on his Review-exclusive story about the past, present, and tentative future of Now magazine.
Pull Quotes: Season 6, Episode 1: ChatGPT, text-generative AI and the newsroom
In the first episode of season six, host Timothy Cooke talks to a computer scientist and a newsroom digital developer about ChatGPT and the future of other text-generative AI in newsrooms.