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Journalism students learn about self-care Psychology professor Diana Brecher leads discussion on resilience, grit and optimism BROOKLYN PINOHEIRO RYERSONIAN
Journalists need to take time to appreciate the work they do if they are going to thrive in the industry as it faces difficult times, according to psychology professor Diana Brecher. That tip, along with nine others, were Brecher’s contribution to a day-long teach-in organized by Ryerson’s school of journalism. “The myth is that if you’re successful you’ll be happy, but there’s a lot of research to suggest that if you’re happy you’ll be successful,” said Brecher. Brecher spoke during a segment called “Resilience, grit and optimism.” It was one of the events held to inspire journalism students as the profession is being challenged. All classes were cancelled for the day so students could attend the various presentations surrounding the topic of how journalists should approach their careers in a precarious time. “My motivation for doing this was the realization that I was finding it hard to keep up with the swell of information and the attacks on journalists,” said professor and event moderator Ann
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Professor Diana Brecher speaking to Ryerson journalism students.
Rauhala. “These things were really distressing to me and I thought, if they’re distressing to me how are our students feeling about them?” Brecher’s advice for remaining
sane and being successful as a journalist included finding and focusing on your strengths, remaining optimistic in difficult and positive times, expressing gratitude, staying connected
to a community, sticking to your goals, and remaining calm, among others. “I think it’s really important for journalism students to hear about it right now, because as we’ve said
all along in preparing this, we are not in normal times,” said Rauhala. “What’s great about Diana is that her work is based in research. It’s not your mom telling you to get more sleep.”
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Journalist Manisha Krishnan on her laptop working at the VICE Canada office in Toronto’s Liberty Village.
“Judging by your name, English is not your first language.” That was the first time Manisha Krishnan could ever remember being harassed in the media. She was 20 at the time, working for the North Shore News in Vancouver. She had received a voicemail from a woman she didn’t know, making fun of something she had written. The woman assumed from Krishnan’s byline that she had to have been from somewhere else. “I’m not from ‘somewhere else,’” Krishnan says while chuckling. She’s sporting a “VICELAND” black beanie that sits upon her dark-haired pixie cut. Along with wearing large black glasses and an oversized grey sweater, her relaxed look seems to fit the atmosphere. She’s sitting at a marble table at the bar (yes, bar) in VICE Canada’s Toronto newsroom, which seems about as cool as a newsroom could be. Located in Liberty Village, what looks like a mundane brick building on the outside is home to a stunning and sleek 25,000-square-foot office space. Krishnan was born and raised in Vancouver. From working at
the Edmonton Journal to Maclean’s to the Toronto Star, Krishnan had worked in a fair share of newsrooms before landing her current role at VICE as a senior reporter. Krishnan spoke last week at the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s J-Talks event entitled “No Safe Space: Harassment of Women in Media.” Female journalists discussed their experiences with harassment in the media and how to cope with it. While the other panellists disclosed how the harassment they’ve received throughout their careers has changed the way they engage with others via social media, Krishnan didn’t seem fazed by a lot of the harassment. One story that caused Krishnan to receive a ton of harassment and backlash was published in early October of last year. Headlined “Dear White People, Please Stop Pretending Reverse Racism Is Real,” the article wasn’t much of her
opinion but rather her reporting on what experts said about race, systemic racism, the concept of racism and what it means. She admits that the headline was “inflammatory to a certain degree,” but was trying to counter the idea of “white fragility” and “white people thinking they’re oppressed.” Days, weeks and even months later, Krishnan was still facing harassment because of this story: “I would still get emails or constant trolling on Twitter of people calling me a racist, the ‘N-word’ and variations of the ‘N-word’. I got called a shitskin. That story went further than I thought it would go.” Although getting comments
“I don’t think that’s an option for people who work at a company like VICE or a company where a lot is riding on you having an online presence, and to a certain degree, a brand,” she states. “I think it’s not an option for a young reporter to simply log off or ignore Twitter or social media in general.” She’s even debated inviting one of her social media “trolls” to have a conversation with her. “Maybe there’s something to be learned from having a conversation with someone like that,” she says. “Personally, I’m kind of curious of what kind of results a conversation like that would yield, like what would come out of it. I don’t want to mischaracterize it as like I’m trying to convince someone to see things my way or vice versa. It’s more of a social experiment and to see what would happen.” The reality is that the world of technology and social media is not coming to an end anytime
“Judging by your name, English is not your first language.” – said to Manisha Krishnan like this might cause one to detach themselves from social media, the harassment she’s faced has never caused her to get off social media.
soon. “I naturally probably have a thicker skin because that’s just part of my personality. It probably has to do with my childhood and my parents. I don’t think that makes me a less empathetic writer and I don’t think that makes me less in touch with being able to connect with peoples’ suffering,” she says. She said that when she or her female colleagues produce video pieces, there are numerous men that comment on their appearances in derogatory ways: “I’ve been called an Indian boy or a lesbian because I have short hair. We’ve all been fat shamed.” Krishnan’s main piece of advice is just to be aware of your surroundings and the technology that encompasses our daily lives. “If you’re just starting out, be cognizant of the fact that there are certain things that you can say, and there are shitty people on the Internet,” she says. “You have just to realize those people are ignorant and they’re just doing that to be a dick. Try to tune it out because there’s no way to reconcile with it.”
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Facing Islamophobia in a hijab
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Vice journalist Sarah Hagi told journalism students Tuesday how she confronted her online trolls “face-to-face” and wearing her hijab. Speaking at the journalism school’s day-long teach-in, she said she went to what she described as a pro-Islamophobia rally hosted by The Rebel news organization. The event came to her attention when one of her colleagues posted about the rally on a social media app. Hagi then joked about attending the rally with her hijab on. She says the more she thought about the rally, the more she realized she wanted to attend. “I never really had the opportunity to confront people with those views. I get trolled online
but never really came face-to-face with a person who hated me for no reason,” said Hagi. Hagi remembers the attendees wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ hats and openly saying that they had the right to hate anybody. “They looked like my friends’ parents – regular, middle-aged to young people that are my age. “I could just be passing these people by on the street,” said Hagi. Hagi’s article received a large amount of online recognition for her personal account. Students heard her story at Ryerson University on a panel called Covering Islamophobia. Joyce Smith, an associate professor at Ryerson, was also a featured panellist at the talk. Smith and Hagi said that students shouldn’t be afraid to research what they don’t know,
ask ‘stupid’ questions, pass on stories they don’t have a lot of information on to other reporter and form relationships and seek out people from different communities. “It really bothers me when we only talk to Muslims or visibly religious people about religion. So we can actually do a lot of pre-emptive work in our reporting, prior to these conflagrations,” said Smith. Hagi said journalists need to be smart about the visuals they use in their stories. “You can have an article of people playing hockey and a picture of Muslims playing hockey. So I think just making it normal that Muslims can do things that aren’t related to their identity is a really good thing,” says Hagi. @lmalyk
Toronto is not a safe haven City hasn’t provided enough leadership and funding, critic says KAREN CHAN RYERSONIAN
Toronto is not the sanctuary city it claims to be, Graham Hudson told the school of journalism’s teach-in on Tuesday. Hudson says that sanctuary cities are not working, and Toronto should stop calling itself one. Hudson is an associate professor and the undergraduate program director for the department of criminology at Ryerson. He recently co-authored a report stating the city has never provided adequate leadership or funding to make Toronto a sanctuary city.
“It’s just not working. The reality is that city council has declared the city to be a sanctuary city, but provided no additional funding,” says Hudson. Toronto was the first Canadian city to declare itself a sanctuary city in February 2014, after city council voted 37-3 in favour of the decision. Sanctuary cities are supposed to give all residents full rights to public services without requiring documentation status. Hudson says there has been little to no public outreach and funding of the services that would make Toronto a sanctuary city. As well, Toronto police were found to be
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Graham Hudson explaining sanctuary cities to Ryerson students.
“routinely doing identity checks” which nullifies the definition of a sanctuary city. He said that in the United States sanctuary cities work better. That’s because they have “more political power than those in Canada,” and they “have much bigger populations (and) a lot more money and funding.” However, even though U.S. municipalities still want to recognize the need for sanctuary cities, this could be changing with President Donald Trump’s executive order on Jan. 25 denying federal funding towards U.S. sanctuary cities. Mayor John Tory reaffirmed that Toronto is a sanctuary city on Jan. 31 following Trump’s announcement. Hudson spoke at Ryerson University on Tuesday with Metro newspaper’s managing editor, Melita Kuburas. The pair spoke about covering refugees in the media, and the definitions of sanctuary cities. @hikarenchan
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Sarah Hagi speaking to Ryerson journalism students about Islamophobia.
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‘This work can be scary because it is powerful’
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Ivor Shapiro says there have been many times he has been proud of the Ryerson school of journalism. But on this day, he said he was more proud than ever. All journalism classes at Ryerson were cancelled Tuesday, replaced by a day-long teach-in. It addressed issues facing today’s journalists, including students. Guest speakers and journalism professors and instructors addressed issues such as dealing
with Islamophobia and responding to attacks on the media. The reason for this old-style teaching technique? As Shapiro said, journalists need this knowledge now more than ever. There are many wakeup calls to make this relevant today, Shapiro said. Recent events, such as the massacre of Muslims in Quebec City and people suffering in Syria, are among them. Journalists have always been activists for something, which is why it’s so important to be educated about current events. As
Shapiro notes, perhaps most of what journalism students study at Ryerson is a particular way of responding to these events. “This work can be scary because it is powerful, and exercising power is, or should be, a little scary,” he said. Ann Rauhala, associate chair of RSJ and co-organizer of the event, said she was surprised at the response from students who attended. “The highlight is that students seemed to find it really important and relevant to them,” she said.
Rauhala said the event came together after a number of staff in the journalism department decided it was time to step up. She said they all felt they needed to do more for their students and the struggles they might be facing. She said that when journalists are being insulted and demeaned, it’s distressing to her. “I think, wow, what about that student sitting in my class who’s a child of an immigrant, who’s maybe a person of colour, who’s struggling with his or her identity or sexuality,” she said.
With hard-hitting stories, Shapiro said there is always the risk of getting things wrong and offending people. But that isn’t a reason to shy away from these stories. “Do you agree with everything that has been said today? I hope not,” he said. He said agreeing is not the point of living in a free society or doing good journalism. “Good journalism is more about asking questions than stating them and agreeing with them,” he said.
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Lenny Carpenter lectures during the Ryerson school of journalism’s teach-in. Marsha Barber reads from her book of published poetry.
There are attacks on journalism right now and I think it’s important that an institution like this deals with journalism.
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Colleen Derkatch lectures about the rhetoric of Donald Trump and the importance of the words journalists choose when they communitcate ideas to the public.
I think ... now more than ever, that we need to show how we get our stories and how we promote them.
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Matthew Braga speaks about the complexities of technology in the changing landscape of journalism.
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Photos show diversity Photography student captures Muslim women in everyday activities BROOKLYN PINHEIRO RYERSONIAN
It was a freezing Friday afternoon. Alia Youssef was wearing her Converse sneakers, underestimating the effects a photo shoot in -20 degree weather would have on her toes. With her Canon in hand, Youssef and third-year York
University kinesiology student, Randa Hisham Adel, braved the cold in order to get portraits of Hisham Adel on the path behind her house where she goes running. Youssef is a fourth-year Ryerson University photography student. For her final project, she is taking portraits of Muslim women in environments that represent
their passions. The pair stood up against the wind in order to capture Hisham Adel in her running gear in an environment that showcases something she loves to do. Out of all the photos taken that day, the first one was the best. “I really wanted to make a project that showed how normal Muslim women are,” said Youssef. “We have passions and ambitions
like everyone does. We’re not oppressed.” She posted a status on Facebook calling for volunteers to be photographed. Her post received many shares along with a full inbox of messages from women requesting to have their photo taken. As the semester went on, she photographed more and more Muslim women in their chosen
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Media under threat: teach-in This week, Ryerson University’s journalism school played host to a teach-in catered to its students. Cancelling classes and instead inviting students to attend the day-long event called “Making Sense When the World Doesn’t,” the school’s administration and faculty convened for a day of industry experts, guest speakers and panel discussions addressing the role of the media in today’s world. This comes amidst growing criticism and distrust of the media between news reporters, government officials and the public. But it is this official recognition from educational institutions that come at such a crucial time to remind us that journalism is a form of public service. The fight for freedom of the press is something that’s been well-documented, with reporters historically facing hostility from those who are enraged at reporters — or at the very least, disagree with the work reporters have done. From the harassment and degradation of women in the media, the attacks on our values of multiculturalism and the attempted normalization of hateful and divisive rhetoric, those in the news media are under daily scrutiny for just doing their jobs. This scrutiny is something that people like the Ryersonian’s Jessica Vomiero are constantly facing. Vomiero is a female reporting
in the technology industry — a sector that, as she writes in our Voices section this week, is dominated by male reporters. It’s also something the university’s journalism school hopes to address with the teach-in. In addition to bringing in a number of guest speakers, the faculty invited university psychologist and professor Diana Brecher to speak on how to survive and thrive in uncertain times. Brecher spoke about the significance of remaining optimistic and not losing sight of what motivates reporters, adding,“there’s a lot of research to suggest that if you’re happy, you’ll be successful.” It’s something that VICE Canada senior reporter Manisha Krishnan has faced on a regular basis. As reporter Emily Srebotnjak writes this week in the News section, Krishnan has been on the receiving end of online hate comments — but instead of avoiding it, she urges us to cope with it, even embrace it. This is easier said than done. But it reminds us of another one of the principles of journalism — that it must act as a forum for public discourse. While we must not tolerate hateful comments and speech, we can respect the institution that allows such discourse, or any discourse, to exist in the public domain. As journalists we must, as Michelle Obama said, go high when they go low.
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Controlling the conversation SARAH JACKSON RYERSONIAN
As a student journalist, it’s common for officials to deny interviews merely because you’re not a “real” journalist. But what about when it’s the university — your university — that is brushing you off? I experienced that this week when I was denied access by Ryerson’s Housing and Residence Life to cover an event. Ryerson is investing in a study to figure out what students want in housing. Phase 1 of this study
involves sessions open to all students. It was run by Brailsford & Dunlavey, which specializes in developing large-scale housing. My request to report on this event was denied. The logic? My reporting “may impact what is being expressed by students/participant(s),” according to an email. I was told that this decision was made by Brailsford & Dunlavey. I was invited to attend as a student and offered an interview with Ryerson’s residence co-ordinator — who had not attended the session — to talk about the study. A reply to my RSVP stated that “media is not permitted to attend this event.” This comes amidst increasing tension between the media and public officials, prompting journalism schools to remind students why journalism matters a focus of the Ryerson School of Journalism’s teach-in this week. Jessica Vomiero writes in this week’s Voices section that
the free press is what differentiates Canada from authoritarian states. This conversation about the housing study, coming out of an event aimed at having student voices heard, was being controlled by the university and hauntingly parallels that of an authoritarian state. I’m told that the findings of the study will be released in April. But what if the university doesn’t like what the students had to say? My reporting would have told the story straight from the voices of students, instead of how the university wanted me to. If holding establishments accountable doesn’t happen at a university level, where students come to learn, how can we ever be prepared to do the same at the highest level of government? A longer version of this column is avilable at ryersonian.ca. @sarahl_jacks
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‘We give up our power when we give up control of the narrative’ JESSICA VOMIERO RYERSONIAN
Since I began writing online four years ago, I’ve always been told not to read the comments. Up until the past few years, I never understood that philosophy. It wasn’t until I joined a technology news outlet, where I was required to help moderate comments on my own stories, that I began to see why. Women facing abuse on the Internet is, unfortunately, nothing new. It’s a shame that brilliant women have been forced to believe that being torn down in the comments section is simply an occupational hazard. Much like the majority of news publications, I work with an incredibly talented team at MobileSyrup to deliver our readers Canadian technology news. Every day, each one of us,
regardless of gender, experiences criticism via the comments section on YouTube and through other social media. Beyond the comments section, journalists don’t garner the respect they once did from the public. This shift is likely due to the proactive war on journalists being waged by members of the highest levels of government. In my experience, the already recognized gender gap in the newsroom is even more pronounced for women who report on technology, as they’re often forced to come up against multiple forms of sexism every day. For example, while I believe firmly in the necessity of a comments section, it’s the nature of the criticism received by me and my female colleagues that stands out to me. “I think there are two main types of comments that you get
as a woman on a tech site,” says Rose Behar, MobileSyrup’s telecome reporter. “There are those that are clearly sexist. There are also those comments that are not clearly marked as sexist but you can tell that there’s far more scrutiny on you than on your male colleagues.” I remember coming into the office one day to find Behar reading the comments on a review she had written, and as she glossed over one in particular, her face changed. “There was one that made me really angry...a guy called me ‘sweetie,’ and it’s just demeaning right? It makes you feel more like a child or someone who’s akin to a child or someone who’s being condescended to, rather than an equal,” she says. Whereas my experience in technology only spans my experience as a journalist, Behar has
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A user referred to Jessica Vomiero, left, as “caterpillar eyebrows” in this YouTube video featuring her colleague Rose Behar.
worked in technology in many capacities. We agree that we are received differently by our readers than our male counterparts. I’ve noticed that the main differences between the comments on the videos and stories I post and those of my male editors are critiques of my physical appearance. I’ve never been sure why viewers see it as necessary to state their personal opinion on the way I look, whether it be positive or negative. One comment that stands out to me among the others appeared on a web series that Behar and I co-hosted. It read “caterpillar eyebrows is totally lezzing it with nerd glasses.” With this comment, all the work we’d put into that video had been reduced to a single physical feature. While it’s always been my first choice to avoid engaging with our attackers, Behar has taken a different approach by actively trying to challenge those that bully her online, to remind them that there is a real person behind the screen that reads their comments, one that has to come to terms with them. She’s told me that it took a while for her to get comfortable doing this, but that it’s often resulted in some realization on the part of the commenter. Occasionally, she’ll receive an apology. This allows her to take back control of her stories, she says, and maybe that’s the key. As women who work in technology and in the digital space, perhaps we give up our power when we give up control of the narrative.
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Jessica Vomiero says she is criticized more than her male colleagues.
What always surprises me the most though is the number of comments I receive telling me that I simply don’t know what I’m talking about, that I’m writing with a bias, that I’m there just to fill a quota, or that I should simply consider entering another field. I go to work every day with the profound belief that the press is a necessary part of what keeps our elected officials honest and what keeps a democracy free. The existence of a free press marks a key difference between nations like Canada and the many authoritarian states that exist today. I just don’t know when the people I write for stopped believing that. A longer version of this column is available at ryersonian.ca. @JessicaVomiero
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