Review of Journalism’s Latest Issue Is Here

Congratulations to the Review of Journalism (external link)  Spring 2025 masthead for all their hard work creating Vol. 41 No. 1 (external link) !

This year’s issue delves into several diverse themes: police vs. press (external link) , AI in the industry (external link) , the consolidation of the East Coast press (external link) , shining a light on journalism trailblazers (external link) , and more.

"It's not easy to do the magazine...It takes a lot to do the features, working with the team, how explosive it can be sometimes and figuring out how to problem solve," said Professor Bill Reynolds. "Those lessons are with them forever after going through The Review."

"They should feel proud that they accomplished something because it's a good issue," Reynolds said.

Reynolds also used the opportunity to announce his retirement.

He kept it short and sweet, reflecting on being a professor for 24 years and having Vol. 41 as his last issue with The Review.

Teaching assistant Aloysius Wong '23 said he was proud of this year's cohort and how collaborative they were. 

The masthead chose the cover idea of journalists and journalism under attack and to represent the news cycle being thrown at them. 

He said, "This was important to highlight a common experience of being in journalism right now."

Both as a student producing issue 39 (external link)  of The Review and now as a TA helping a new team produce this issue, Wong is grateful to have been a part of the publication's legacy and to document the history of the industry. 

"[Reynolds] has been a part of this (The Review) for so many years, I think the mark he's made, not just on me as a student, colleague of his and hopefully, friend, I will bring with me for the rest of my life.”

Editor-in-chief Trent Weston said it felt surreal to have the magazine in his hands. 

"We put in all this work and see how things have progressed every step of the way, but then to see it visually and have it printed out, it's certainly quite difficult not to feel proud of yourself and everyone else."

Weston’s pieces in the issue covered breaking the rules in journalism (external link)  and looked at how Canadian media represents mental illnesses (external link) .

Senior editor Livia Dyring remembered Reynolds explaining in his speech how the year can feel slow until you start to see it all come together with everyone's work.

"It's a really strange, but good feeling to go from nothing to it being done."

Dyring said it all felt worth it at the end.

Her two pieces in the issue covered data journalists using numbers to tell stories (external link)  and shared journalist Tim Mak’s (external link)  story.

As a senior editor, Chloe Kim enjoyed watching her classmates shine through their work and seeing them become more confident by the end of the school year.

Kim’s pieces in the issue tackled the 2025 diversity report (external link)  of how The Review newsroom compares to others across Canada, and looked into whose stories don’t get told when Canadian journalists report international news (external link) .

For Missing Voices, Kim struggled to find a main source to speak critically about the industry for her story.

Then she was able to interview Rethi Santra, an executive producer with CBC News Network and former executive producer of World News at CBC.

Kim said, “It was rewarding to find someone who would speak to potential shortcomings in the industry.”

In their editor’s note (external link) , Weston, Dyring and Kim described being told journalism is dying and that they’ve picked the wrong profession.

“Yet, we choose this calling and support its ideals: to share truth and hold power to account. We’ve made a choice not to give up because a world with no journalism is a world we don’t want to live in.”