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Covering North Korea

News coverage of the “Hermit Kingdom” is sensationalist and reductive. Is Kim Jong Un more important than the country’s 25 million citizens?

Rage Against the Machines

The “Freedom Convoy” overtook downtown Ottawa last year. On the fly, reporters sorted fact from misinformation while the protestors called them liars

Into the Deep

Amid the onslaught of daily news, four in-depth podcasts are taking their time—and getting the story right

Whether We Like it or Not

Inside the strange symbiosis of journalism and public relations

Then and Now

Workers in revolt, unpaid wages, revolving-door management: inside five chaotic, difficult, tumultuous, teetering years at Now magazine

Cultures of Abuse

Sports journalism used to be the “toy department.” Now it’s an investigative unit

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.
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Trolling Night in Canada

Female sports journalists are living their dreams—except for the hate, threats, and online harassment

Old Questions, New World

Today’s advice columnists resist clear answers and moral authority. Their embrace of life’s chaos is changing the genre for good