Toronto Star Columnist’s Homeless Cosplay Experiment is Journalistic Malpractice
Rosie DiManno goes undercover to become a poverty tourist
June 1, 2021
By Rebecca Tucker
Short Cuts
#274 Reply-All Rosie
What might Jesse and Erin O’Toole have in common? And newsrooms continue to struggle with what it means to respond to this summer’s reckoning with racism. Chatelaine Executive Editor Denise Balkissoon co-hosts.
August 27, 2020
“Degrading And Aggressive”: Star Newsroom Rises Up Against Rosie DiManno
More than five dozen journalists sign letter to management demanding condemnation of columnist's "hateful, racist reply-all email"
August 26, 2020
By Jonathan Goldsbie
Short Cuts
#193 Hate Laundry
Two big Toronto papers got some things horribly wrong. The Sun has been censured by the National NewsMedia Council for its fictitious goat-slaughtering story, and The Sun and Star both recklessly outed a sex worker for no justifiable purpose.
December 19, 2018
Sun And Star Out Sex Worker
The Sun also got the story wrong in its front-page headline
December 18, 2018
By Jonathan Goldsbie
You Don’t Have To Talk About Muslims When You Talk About Mass Killings
In the aftermath of the Toronto van attack, some mainstream media commentary has overlapped with themes propagated by far-right platforms
April 27, 2018
By Steven Zhou
Toronto Star Columnist Charged With Assaulting Woman, Says “Children Involved”
Rosie DiManno, the Toronto Star’s acerbic and long-serving columnist, was charged with assault this week, according to Ontario Provincial Police....
