With 2017 coming to a close, we wanted to know what news stories Ryerson University students felt were the biggest of this year. While answers ranged from refugee crises in Southeast Asia to sports politics next door in the United States, one thing is clear: there was no shortage of breaking news in 2017. Video…
The world currently has about 2,043 billionaires and 89% of them are men, indicates data released by Forbes in their 2017 World’s Billionaires List. So while the wage gap for average workers marches slowly towards parity, becoming one of the the richest of the rich appears to be the final boy’s-club frontier. Forbes’ list, which calculated…
On June 17, 2015, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. He opened fire, shooting and killing nine people, all of whom were African American. In response, Confederate flags, long a symbol of the values of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, were removed from state…
The Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent says readers want to see hard evidence before they believe reporters Julianna Perkins, RSJ The public’s lack of trust for the media means facts are more important than ever, said Daniel Dale, the Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent, in a talk at Ryerson University Wednesday. Dale, who also covered Toronto’s city…
BuzzFeed Canada founding editor says rumours, unverified information, and fake articles are taking over social media Julianna Perkins, RSJ The less true an article is, the more popular it tends to get, said Craig Silverman, founding editor of BuzzFeed Canada in a lecture at Ryerson University Tuesday. Silverman, who now acts as the company’s media…
War journalists around the world are not having their mental health taken seriously by their employers, Dr. Anthony Feinstein, a University of Toronto professor of psychiatry, said at a discussion at Ryerson University Wednesday. Feinstein, also a successful author and documentary filmmaker, has spent over a decade studying and surveying war journalists and has found…