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Pull Quotes: The Review of Journalism Podcast

Pull Quotes Season 4, Episode 6: End of a run

In the final episode of Season four, host Emma Jones talks to the [ ]RJ masthead to hear about their experiences producing a magazine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Mother Load

It’s never been easy to be a journalist and a mother. Now…
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Local Journalism Needs A Boost

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the deficit of local journalism in GTA communities. This is why it matters.
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Op-ed: The Case Against Unpaid Internships

Unpaid internships are commonly accepted practice in journalism, but these opportunities are only available to students with the privilege to work without pay.
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The Many Lives of The Canadian Jewish News

The CJN is in the midst of its second resurrection of the decade. With a shift in organizational structure style & focus it hopes for a stable and enduring future.
“Broken Home.” A sea turtle rests its head on a plastic bottle on Tortuguero Beach, Costa Rica in 2006. Image by Neil Ever Osborne.

Can Photojournalism Help Save the Environment?

Cameras in hand, journalists and photographers are taking action to help the environment. Here’s how.
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TikTok Breaks the News

TikTok is used by many journalists, but the app has posed a challenge: how to balance online trends with news-related content that appeals to younger users.
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In Defence of Good News

The experience of living through a pandemic is drawing audiences away from hard news and towards good news stories and solutions journalism.
Pull Quotes: The Review of Journalism Podcast

Pull Quotes Season 4, Episode 5: Should Canadian crime reporters start thinking beyond what they can print, to what they should?

Professors Maggie Jones Patterson and Romayne Smith Fullerton, co-authors of Murder in our Midst: Comparing Crime Coverage Ethics in an Age of Globalized News, join us to discuss regional approaches to crime reporting, and how they’re changing in the age of mass communication. We also discuss the recent sentencing decision in the trial of Toronto van-attacker Alek Minassian, and why it’s making waves in the Canadian journalism community. “Just focusing on this man’s name, does not equip the citizenry to make decisions, and help influence the people they elect to create policy.” – Romayne Smith Fullerton.
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Revisiting Indigenous Stories in the Review

The Review regularly tackles stories about Indigenous representation in the news – here is a sampling of the publication’s work since 2016 featuring Indigenous voices, stories, or writers.