But it is a newsletter about what it means to live in the west at this moment, and the fundamental tension between people who want to return to ‘normal,’ and people who know that’s an idea that doesn’t exist anymore.
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Out: Alice Munro art monster discourse. In: Literally any of these alternate conversations.
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If the New York Times had taken more care in its reporting on Hamas’ alleged use of sexual violence against Israeli women and girls, their story might have been less dramatic, but more accurate.
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Condé Nast is folding Pitchfork into GQ—but that’s not because the influential music website was ‘unsuccessful.’
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Dozens of Palestinian journalists have been killed by IDF airstrikes since Oct. 7. How come so many of my colleagues have nothing to say?
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CBC’s personal use policy now extends to people’s likes on social media—at least, as they relate to Israel and Palestine. It’s a clear attempt to project ‘objectivity,’ a much-lauded journalistic value that has never actually existed.
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The funniest part of Bobbi Althoff and Amelia Dimoldenberg’s interviews is how awkward they are. But considering how much they depend on proximity to Blackness, is that also kind of… weird?
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And why moving away from the era of centralized internet might actually help defang stan culture
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Layoffs, potential mergers, tech companies that refuse to surface our content—Canadian media is having a very hard month. I’m still making the case that we should not give into pessimism.
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The host of 'Signal to Help,' a new podcast about how people can support survivors of gender-based violence, on why this topic is so timely and the importance of actionable advice.
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Dehumanizing language, passive voice, inaccuracies—journalists got so many things wrong in their coverage of this killing.
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The Toronto arts and culture publication has recently published two articles with obviously transphobic framing. ~wHaT aRe yOuR tHoUgHtS oN tHiS?~
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Recently, Sarah Polley and Julia Fox made jokey comments about a trending topic without understanding the context. Here's what that says about the way we communicate online
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‘Spare’ features plenty of juicy details, but it’s short on real reflection about the institutions Harry belongs to… and why he still believes in them.
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It’s year-end round-up szn! Here’s my contribution to the genre.
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For many of us, confirmation of Migos rapper Takeoff’s death came via a TMZ post that included photos of his body—and this is not the first time the site has turned Black people's trauma into entertainment.
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The former CP24 weather specialist and on-air personality says she was exploited and discriminated against at work.
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True crime was already popular when “Serial” premiered in 2014, but the podcast definitely helped the genre go mainstream. Unfortunately, some of the most notable post-Serial shows and podcasts have many of the same problems as their inspiration.
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Regular people, governments and (most troubling to me) journalists are telling a story about Queen Elizabeth and the monarchy that just isn't true.
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It tells female journalists we’re all going to age out of this business, journalists with more privilege not to stand up for their peers with less, and all of us that the bottom line matters more than the work we do.
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