Pull Quotes

t] Hamilton Spectator columnist Susan Clairmont has told several stories about suicide over the course of her career, including in the recent photo project, Lives left behind . On this week’s episode, Clairmont talks about the experience and responsibilities of reporting on people who take their own lives. Subscribe on iTunes [/vc_column_text] Hear the full interview with Susan Clairmont. [r...

By Laura Howells, Jacob McNair and Emily Pardo The New York Times’ updated social media guidelines stress that journalists should always be impartial online–they can’t post political opinions or appear to “take sides.” But is this a smart approach to social media? We talk to Cynthia Collins, the New York Times’ social media editor, and journalist David Uberti, who says this kind of poli...

By Laura Howells, Jacob McNair and Emily Pardo When should journalists use the word “terrorism?” Why refer to the attack in Edmonton as terrorism, and not the mass shooting in Las Vegas? Does it matter that neither the Edmonton attacker nor the Quebec City mosque shooter from January have actually been charged with terrorism? In this episode, we explore what the word “terror...

By Laura Howells, Jacob McNair and Emily Pardo Welcome to Pull Quotes, a new podcast from the Ryerson Review of Journalism. This week: Cracks in Canadian press freedom. The RCMP wants Vice reporter Ben Makuch to hand over all his messages with one of his sources — an accused terrorist. But new reports say that man has been dead for the last two years. And some good news for Canadian journalis...