This Isn’t Normal So Change It

I attended the section of the teach-in titled “This isn’t normal”. This section of the event featured four working journalists conversing with their audience about how to keep focus and remember what is important in a time that is extremely challenging in a journalistic and personal sense. Andrea Houston, interim managing editor at the Torontoist,…

A good reminder

  Words have power. It’s a familiar concept, particularly in journalism. But recently, it’s an idea that has slipped my mind. Words seem somewhat diminished these days, in the fervor of fake news and press conferences defined by clarification, corrections and redefinition. When Graham Hudson, professor of criminology at Ryerson University, took the stage at…