Category Archives: Journalism

Proof that advice columnists can be journalists too.

Here. As compelling a read as anything by Gay Talese or Amy Waldman or David Friend. Who says sex columnists don’t have any depth?
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Another one to add to The Rob Ford Files…

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Fuck you, j-school

It’s Saturday night. As I mentioned in a previous post, I was supposed to put the Review to bed yesterday — which I guess technically we did, but since the role of editor is to take care of all the niggly leftovers, here I am in the lab again reading proofs and agonizing over the [...]
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Good journalism

“A Claim to Camelot” by Vanity Fair writer David Friend: No better way to distract oneself from writing a horribly dry journalism ethics paper (my last ever in my academic career!!! Noteworthy in itself, actually). Also, to explain the absenteeism: There are 10 days until I put the Review to bed. Ugh.
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New Boss.

I have decided to take a summer job offer for a business reporting internship at Dow Jones Canada. I don’t know anything about the stock markets, or business, or the economy or anything to do with numbers at all, but I figure if I don’t go down in a ball of flaming glory first, [...]
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