Beat Reporting Research Guide

Arts and Life

Websites

Tourism Toronto
See Toronto like it’s your first time. Geared to visitors this website offers reporters a fresh perspective on their city. It has a very useful media centre that even offers story ideas.

Artists in Canadian
This website lists various artists throughout the country. It provides links to artists’ websites, allowing a reporter to view their portfolios and to obtain contact info.

Toronto Centre for the Arts
The Toronto Centre for the Arts is mainly a musical performance venue. The website is lacking in background information about the centre but it does provide event listings, photographs and contact numbers for its staff.

Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Galley of Ontario is the main gallery in the province. The AGO, as it is known, has an established house collection but it also rotates new exhibits from all over the world. Founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, it is now the 10th largest art museum in North America.

Toronto.com
This commercial site has a detailed city guide to events and venues in the 416, 647 and 905 area codes. It features maps of how to get to all the events and establishments as well as photos and contact numbers.

Ticket Master Canada
This site has concert, theatre and family event listings from around the country.

Books

Intimate journalism : the art and craft of reporting everyday life / edited by Walt Harrington.

The art of fact : a historical anthology of literary journalism / edited by Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda.

Beyond the facts : a guide to the art of feature writing / Louis Alexander.

Writing feature articles : a practical guide to methods and markets / Brendan Hennessy.

Professional feature writing / Bruce Garrison.

Write to be read : a practical guide to feature writing / Benton Rain Patterson.