Archive for category: Journalism

Ftrain then and now    (2014.08.27)

Two rather different pieces from Paul Ford

Michael Erard should know better    (2014.08.27)

Esteemed colleague Michael Erard knew perfectly well, I am sure, that it was always possible to use the relay service to fact-check an article with a deaf source

Logrolling in our time    (2014.04.18)

Jason McBride does not quite recapitulate an old Spy article for Toronto Life

Historical elucidation of “pink pound”    (2014.02.15)

Michael Mason writes in to offer a socioeconomic history of the pink pound

Karen K. Ho Defamation Watch    (2014.01.16)

Local journo isn’t quite as clever as she thinks she is

Cheering the demise of OpenFile and J-Source    (2013.05.21)

I heartily cheer the demise of J-Source and OpenFile. And, boy, do I have documentation on their failings

Confidential to Steve Paikin: Ed Koch was gay    (2013.04.13)

Despite what Glen Murray thinks, Steve, Ed Koch was gay, and I won’t stand for any journalist claiming otherwise

Toronto journalists’ technical illiteracy made them late on a story by a full year    (2012.10.17)

Toronto journalists, a monoculture of a commentariat class, have a shared technical incompetence that made them a year late on the biggest journalism story of ’012

‘New York Times’ confirms it interferes with its journalists    (2012.10.16)

A New York Times Co. boardmember told a podcast that journalists at the New York Times must write according to corporate interests, it appears