Long Reads - The Review of Journalism

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?

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

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

Inside the strange symbiosis of journalism and public relations

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

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

When journalists “parachute” into communities, what does that mean for the people they cover?

They work hard. They stick around. And yet many of them are never offered jobs. How CBC treats its temporary workers—and how some are fighting back.

Photojournalism has an exploitation problem. Three journalists are finding ways to solve it.

For generations, the Toronto Star has had a reputation as a progressive paper. But does its newsroom culture live up to its own ideals?