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All stories of the Review of Journalism.

Dos and Don’ts

Mike LaPointe darts back in from the cold, flexing his fingers to warm them up as he sits down to write. One hour inside, then back out to report some more. He pens just 100 words, then goes back to covering the story occupying the heart of Ottawa—the trucker protests.

Unionland

Jesse Brown didn’t fight his shop’s unionization. The brash publisher of Canadaland, a leading digital podcast company, welcomed his staff’s effort to form a union in 2020, and took the same approach to hammering out their first contract, which was announced publicly by the union on January 20.

Review of Journalism 2022 Diversity Report

The Review of Journalism strives to create a workplace and publication that reflects the diversity of both our readers and the stories we tell. As a new measure in 2022, we have chosen to publish an anonymous breakdown of the race, gender, sexuality, and disability representation of our staff.
Sign on a fence that says we are not the virus, we are not the virus.

We Are Not The Virus

Aliya Pabani and Allie Graham on how their four-part audio-doc counters the media narrative on unhoused people by centring the lived experience of Toronto’s park encampments’ residents
Nadia Stewart

Nadia Stewart is Creating Space for Black Journalists in Canada—Here’s How

“I always lean on the side of optimism.”
How J-School Failed Me

How Journalism School Failed Me

J-schools are inadequately preparing us for the future of journalism—here’s why.
Sanam Maher sits on the ledge of an empty fountain in Pakistan

Facing Harassment In and Out of the Newsroom

How women journalists in Pakistan are fighting back—and the online spaces that are helping them do it.
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Path of Exile

Non-profits are urging Canada to facilitate refuge for journalists in danger, but can the industry help them get back to work?
Illustration of a maze showing various points on the map

Anatomy of an Investigation

How did journalists working on the FinCEN Files used innovative techniques to trace financial crime globally?
clip art compilation of close ups of eyes and a person sitting at a desk

Signs of Trouble for Lifestyle Journalism

Layoffs and lack of equity amid a pandemic—how is lifestyle journalism surviving?