Narrative journalism professor Bill Reynolds is retiring after 24 years at TMU. He sits down with host Andrew Roberts to reflect on his path from magazine editor to educator—and what lies ahead.

Special thanks to Bill’s former students for contributing voice notes: Rachel DeGasperis, Julia Tramontin, Chiara Greco, Yezua Ho, Aloysius Wong, Lauren McKeon, and Luc Rinaldi.

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Guest Bio

Bill joined TMU’s School of Journalism in 2002, after more than a decade in the magazine world. He was part of the founding team at Eye Weekly in Toronto, where he worked as Associate Editor, Managing Editor, and eventually Editor. Before that, he cut his teeth at Vox, a Calgary-based music and arts magazine. His freelance writing has appeared in The Walrus, Maisonneuve, This Magazine, Canadian Business, Swerve, The Globe and Mail, and the Hamilton Spectator. He is the author of the book, Life Real Loud: John Lefebvre, Neteller and the Revolution in Online Gambling (ECW Press, 2014), which won the U.S. Independent Publisher Book Award for best nonfiction crime book, and in Canada was nominated for the Arthur Ellis best nonfiction crime book.

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Reema Najjar sits with Christopher Cheung, journalist and author of Under the White Gaze, to discuss race and representation in Canadian journalism. This episode was recorded on Cheung’s last day at The Tyee.

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Guest Bio

Christopher Cheung was previously at The Tyee, Metro, and the Vancouver Courier. He has reported on urban culture, inequality, and life in Vancouver’s diaspora communities. Among his many honours are two Jack Websters, BC’s top journalism awards. He also holds a Master of Journalism from the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Under The White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism.

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Jin Yu interviews Anita Li about her innovative approach to community-driven journalism through her publication, The Green Line.

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Guest Bio

Anita Li is a journalist known for her work in innovation. She’s also a media consultant, educator, and entrepreneur based in Toronto. She’s worked at CBC, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star and brings more than two decades of experience in newsrooms across Toronto, New York, and Ottawa. She was also recently awarded with a King Charles III coronation medal—for her contributions to Canadian journalism. Right now, she’s the publisher and CEO of The Green Line, a hyperlocal, solutions-focused, community-driven news outlet that investigates the way we live to help Torontonians survive and thrive in a rapidly changing city.

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Marina Black interviews award-winning photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur about the art of animal photojournalism, which seeks to show the public how animals in places like farms and factories really experience their lives.

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Guest Bio

Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning photojournalist, sought-after speaker, photo editor, and the founder of We Animals. She has visited over sixty countries to document our complex relationship with animals. She is the author of three books: We Animals (2014), Captive (2017), and HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene (2020), and is the subject of Canadian filmmaker Liz Marshall’s acclaimed Canadian documentary, The Ghosts in Our Machine. Jo-Anne’s photographs have received accolades from Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Nature Photographer of the Year, Big Picture, AEFONA, Picture of the Year International, the Global Peace Award, and others. In 2020, Jo-Anne was thrilled to be a member of the jury for World Press Photo. She hails from Toronto, Canada.

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Sandra Ingram interviews Lucas Timmons, who is currently working on automating parts of the journalistic workload at the Toronto Star.

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Guest Bio

Lucas Timmons is a news automation developer with Torstar in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Before his current gig, he was the head of The Canadian Press Digital Data Desk. His recent work has focused on developing tools and using AI and machine learning to automate news production and assist research in the newsroom.

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Photojournalism is an essential part of the media’s mandate to inform the public. Photojournalists work at the local level covering important daily events but also have assignments that take them to far flung places to document major world events. This puts them, often, in the thick of the action, searching for the frames that they hope will accurately portray what they are witnessing. But especially when it comes to covering tragedy, destruction, and death, it’s a slippery slope for those behind the camera as questions of ethics, morality, and exploitation come under the scanner. These issues are explored in Iman Adem’s Review of Journalism story “Behind the Frame.”

Guest Bio:

Iman is a fourth-year journalism student at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is a writer who has a deep interest in stories from the Global South. In her free time, she enjoys reading and watching movies. She loves to explore new stories and understand different perspectives.

Resources:

NPR Study: What Was The Impact Of The Iconic Photo Of The Syrian Boy?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/01/13/509650251/study-what-was-the-impact-of-the-iconic-photo-of-the-syrian-boy

Andrew Jackson Photography: https://www.andrewjackson.photography/

Daniella Zalcman: http://www.dan.iella.net/

Sebastián Hidalgo: https://sebastianhidalgophoto.com/

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North Korea has been a fascination of western media for decades. Given that people are rarely ever able to cross the country’s borders, people are reliant on the news media for a lot of their information on the country.

Over the years, much of the reporting on North Korean affairs has relied on sensationalism. The coverage revolves around a few predictable topics, such as missile testing and nuclear weapons. However, most prominently featured is reporting on its leader, Kim Jong-Un, usually some quirky development about the eccentric – and, as we are constantly reminded, overweight – dictator. And if it’s not about Kim Jong-un, then you’d be hard-pressed to hear about it. The citizens of North Korea are seldom heard from at all.

Silas sat down with Hyeji Yoon, who wrote a piece for the review of Journalism about where the western media fails when it comes to reporting on North Korea. She spoke to several North Koreans to get their perspective, and explored the damage that this kind of sensationalist reporting can do. Hyeji spoke about her reporting process, how she was able to find these sources, and why Canadian media has such a strange fascination with this country.

Guest Bio:

Hyeji Yoon is a fourth-year undergraduate journalism student at Toronto Metropolitan University. As a writer, she exhibits a lot of flexibility in the topics she is passionate about—which can range from as broad a scope as international human rights to as small-scale as her neighbourhood’s annual bake sale. She hopes to expand her limits even further by developing a skillset suited to tackle the ever-growing newssphere in the digital world. You can often catch her during short breaks poring over books on her phone because she doesn’t want the physical copies getting dirty.

Resources:

North Korean defectors in Toronto worried they may be deported: https://globalnews.ca/news/3890370/north-korean-defectors-in-toronto-worried-they-may-be-deported-they-treat-us-like-garbage/

Canada deports more than 200 North Korean escapees who took South Korean citizenship: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/canada-10142022171448.html

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The hockey world was rocked in May of 2022 when news broke that Hockey Canada had silently settled a disturbing sexual assault case against eight of the 2018 Canadian Hockey League players. When the news broke, the organization was put under fire for the ways in which they handled the horrendous events, leading to the loss of sponsorships, and eventually, the stepping down of Hockey Canada’s board members. While the sport of hockey is integral to the identity of many Canadians, this news put that identity into question, and sparked discussions of power, privilege, and ethics—all aspects Carly Penrose investigates in her story for the spring issue of the Review of Journalism, titled, “Cultures of Abuse.” In the fourth episode of Pull Quotes, Tara speaks with Carly about what it was like interviewing the sports journalist who broke the story, the challenges she faced covering such sensitive subject matter, and how she navigated writing a still-unfolding story.

Guest Bio:

Carly Penrose is a second-year Master of Journalism student at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is from Halifax, Nova Scotia and did her undergraduate degree in psychology at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. Carly likes to understand how and why people think and act the way they do. She has bylines in the National Post, and THIS Magazine, and currently works with Pagemasters North America and the Local News Data Hub. She loves animals, comedy and long walks with podcasts.

Resources:

What you need to know about the sexual assault scandal: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hockey-canada-sexual-assault-crisis-parliamentary-committee-1.6535248

Rick Westhead: https://twitter.com/rwesthead?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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