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In season five, episode two, we take you behind the scenes of Nicholas Hune-Brown’s feature The Shadowy Business of International Education. In this episode, Nicholas talks to co-host Rahaf Farawi about what drew him to the story, how he gathered rich scene material over Zoom and how this became the longest story he’s ever worked on.

Podcast art by Katelyn Curtis Download the transcript In the season opener of Pull Quotes , the Toronto Star feature writer Richard Warnica spoke with Gabe Oatley, the podcast’s editor and co-host, about his recent feature Rothko at the Inauguration .  This season’s podcast takes you behind the scenes of Canada’s top long-form stories. In this episode, Warnica talks about his near half-decade...

  Download the transcript Tuesday, May 11 marks the day the 2021 edition of the [   ] Review of Journalism is officially available in print, and a year’s work of love and obsession comes to a close. The publishing of the Review is an annual tradition at the Ryerson School of Journalism, a rite of passage open to final-year undergrad and graduate students. The first edition of the magazin...

  Download the transcript This week on PullQuotes, we’re talking about global approaches to crime coverage and their implications for their application in Canada.  I recently wrote a story about how the Canadian judiciary’s shift to remote trials is affecting the ability of journalists to cover the courts. While writing the piece, I never thought twice about naming defendants in trials,...

  Download the transcript This week on Pull Quotes, we’re discussing photojournalism and how it contributes to the public record of the impact of extractive economic industries on human life.  In written stories about rising sea levels or melting glaciers, the serious implications of environmental degradation are too often obscured by numbers and jargon. Some photographers are trying to...

  Download the transcript On this episode of Pull Quotes, in honour of International Women’s Day, host Emma Jones talks to Tracee Herbaugh about balancing a career as writer with being a mom. Newsrooms continue to be dominated by men, however, the presence of women is slowly increasing. In 2018, 41.7 percent of newsroom employees were female, compared to 39.1 percent in 2017, according...

Download the transcript This week on Pull Quotes, podcast editor Emma Jones interviewed Nora Loreto , editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media and co-host of Sandy and Nora Talk Politics with Sandy Hudson. We reached out to Nora because of her work compiling data on COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes across Canada, and to ask about coverage of this issue before and throughout the pa...

This season of Pull Quotes we’re doing something a bit different. Readers of our publication know that every year the student journalists at the Ryerson Review of Journalism produce feature articles about some of the most important issues in Canadian news. While working on a long-form piece, you invariably encounter so many people, each with their own unique point of view. Word counts in magazine...

The Out-of-Office Finale: Pull Quotes Season 3, Episode 11 Listen above or subscribe on iTunes. To our Pull Quotes listeners:  As we launch our final episode of season three of Pull Quotes and as we prepare to launch the print issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, we would like to say an enormous thank you to all of you. Working as the Review ’s podcast chief editor and producer has allowed u...

The Threat of “Deep Fake” Text Generation: Pull Quotes Series 3, Episode 10 Listen above or subscribe on iTunes. As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the globe, disinformation is a threat as dangerous as the pandemic itself . That is according to the World Health Organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , who suggested at the Munich Security conference, back on February 15...

Exploring Innovative Journalism Practices: Pull Quotes , Series 3, Episode 9 Listen above or subscribe on iTunes. This week, Pull Quotes hosts Ashley Fraser and Tanja Saric sit down with Ryerson University professor Adrian Ma, and Ryerson School of Journalism Alumni, Adam Chen, to discuss how innovative storytelling methods are making their way into journalism practice. Ma introduced the use of vi...

Putting Calls for Racial Diversity in Canadian Media into Action: Pull Quotes Season 3, Episode 8 Listen above or subscribe on iTunes. North America’s first female Black publisher, Mary Ann Shadd Cary , fearlessly printed her paper, the Provincial Freeman , from a downtown Toronto office. Cary’s life story is currently featured in Toronto’s Mackenzie House for Black History Month. She published he...

Covering Disasters Beyond the Eye of the Storm: Pull Quotes Season 3, Episode 7 Listen above or subscribe on iTunes. On January 17, CBC viewers watched as 121 km/h winds blew Chris Murphy off his feet into a snowbank. The reporter was broadcasting during a massive blizzard in St. John’s, Newfoundland. That day, the provincial government declared a state of emergency for the first time since 1984 ....

The Decade in Review: Stories that Caught our Attention in the 2010s + Pull Quotes: Season 3, Episode 6 The last decade has seen Canada’s image change drastically, both internally and internationally. Long gone are the days of drolly referring to the Great White North as America’s Hat . There have been major strides in the worlds of music and sports in Canada. But during this period of major accom...

How The StarMetro Cuts Exemplify The Precarious Nature Of Journalism: Pull Quotes Season 3, Episode 5 Listen to season three, episode five above or subscribe on iTunes This week, Pull Quotes hosts Ashley Fraser and Tanja Saric sit down with Ryerson Review of Journalism web editor Hannah Alberga to discuss the recent StarMetro cuts , in which 121 employees were laid off in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calg...

Walking the Fine Line of Objectivity in the Age of Twitter – A Conversation With Desmond Cole and Vicky Mochama: Pull Quotes Season 3, Episode 4 Listen to season three, episode four above or subscribe on iTunes In the latest installment of the Ryerson Review of Journalism ’s Unpublished conversation series, Pull Quotes host Ashley Fraser sat down with journalist and activist Desmond Cole. Th...

SPECIAL: A Podcast About Podcasts Plus: A Q&A with Jayme Poisson – Pull Quotes Season 3, Episode 3 Listen to season three, episode three above or subscribe on iTunes In the past year, almost 11 million Canadian adults listened to podcasts . This data, from the Canadian Podcast Listener, shows the number of people who listen to podcasts has grown since 2017. As the consumption grows and n...

Pull Quotes Season 3, Episode 2: How Media Professionals Adapt to Challenging Misinformation Listen to season three, episode two above or subscribe on iTunes Since September 2016 , Daniel Dale, former Toronto Star Washington bureau chief and current CNN reporter , has been fact-checking US President Donald Trump’s statements. As of May 5, when Dale was still with the Star , he had documented 5,276...

Pull Quotes Season Three, Episode One: How Has the Loss of Local Media Impacted Coverage of the Federal Election?  Listen to season three, episode 1 above or subscribe on iTunes You may have heard the news—Justin Trudeau was re-elected as prime minister in the Canadian federal election, forming a Liberal minority government . What you may not have heard is how the election played out on the l...

Subscribe on iTunes For the final episode of season 2 of Pull Quotes, we bring in Jordana Goldman , Jordan Currie , Hannah Ziegler and Rhianna Jackson-Kelso to talk about their stories from the upcoming print issue from the Ryerson Review of Journalism. From access to the internet, to coverage of race, music criticism, and the increasingly fraught relationship between Doug Ford’s government and jo...

It’s time for public understanding of incarceration as a part of the criminal justice system to change. According to the Adult and youth correctional statistics in Canada, 2016/2017, adults in remand, meaning people who are awaiting trial in prison, and are legally innocent, outnumbered prisoners who had been sentenced. But often, coverage of people who are in prison tells a different story. In ma...

Subscribe on iTunes In 2017, then-Minister of Canadian Heritage, Melanie Joly, announced that Netflix would be spending $500 million over five years on films produced in Canada. It sounds like a lot of money—but where is that money actually going? Do we know how it’s being spent? This past February, Netflix announced that they’re leasing office and studio space in Cinespace and Pinewood studios. W...

Subscribe on iTunes As soon-to-be journalism school graduates about to enter the industry, we’re well aware of the doom and gloom facing journalism in 2019. It’s increasingly clear that the old models won’t be around for much longer. Advertising revenue hasn’t been able to sustain print or digital publications for a long time, and readers have gotten used to getting their news—for free—on the Inte...

Subscribe on iTunes This week on Pull Quotes, we’re joined by three RRJ colleagues: Jordan Currie, copy editor; Linsey Raschkowan, chief of research; and Aurora Zboch, on the sales and sponsorship team, to talk about stories they wanted to bring to our attention. Linsey brought up some context for a story she wrote with Maddie Cornacchia about objectivity while writing about protests. Jordan Curri...

Subscribe on iTunes The alt-right movement has been in and out of the centre of media attention in the last few years. After the Charlottesville protest in Virginia, the world finally got a glimpse of the extreme hateful rhetoric that is at the centre of these groups. However, when we talk about the “alt-right,” we’re not actually talking about one, monolithic movement—it has become a catch-all te...