School of Journalism

Magazine award nominations for RSJ

Read reaction online as Ryerson School of Journalism students, graduates and staff celebrate a number of National Magazine Award nominations. Winners will be named June 7. See all nominees here.

Bjourn candidate tops in province

See Vidya Kauri's award-winning coverage for The Ryersonian here. The fourth-year undergrad student took home the Ontario Newspaper Award for Student Journalist of the Year for her news reporting about sex assauts in the autumn of 2012.

Prof. Gene Allen penning Kent Cooper bio

This summer Allen will present early research on his biography about the longtime manager of the Associated Press who "reorganized the international news system between 1925 and 1950," he writes. Read more

Journalism students know value of research

RSJ students were named as three of 25 finalists for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council contest to tell a story about the value of on-going research. Read more here.

Shapiro et al. on journalists' verification rituals

Now available in Journalism Practice, RSJ Chair Ivor Shapiro and collaborators on how journalists retrospectively describe processes for ensuring accuracy.  See more

Ryersonian wins seven OCNA awards

Students with the Ryersonian during the 2011-12 academic year won awards at the Ontario Community Newspapers Associations awards gala for news and feature writing, photography, general excellence and for the website.  Read more here.

Prof Kelman's essay earns annual top honour

“Shooting the Messenger: Why Canadians don’t often blow the whistle on wrongdoing” named among Best Canadian essays of 2012. Read more

Ryersonian strikes gold at COPA

Bjourn 2012 graduates took home silver and gold in the news and social media categories, respectively, at the 2012 Canadian Online Publishing Awards for their work in The Ryersonian — plus a second-year student joined another gold winner. See more.

RSJ Wire debuts on our home page

A scroll down and on the right you'll see RSJ WIRE - 'top student content curated by staff and faculty.' It features the best work from our undergraduate and grad programs.

Jan Wong to speak on social justice

Journalist, author and former Ryerson Journalism instructor Jan Wong will be speaking on Thursday, Oct. 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in SCC 115 as part of Ryerson's Social Justice Week.