Ryerson University Alums Navigate Away From Clickbait
"Why? Because New York has The New Yorker, Toronto has Toronto Life and Texas has Texas Monthly.”
Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Ryerson University is one of Canada’s leading journalism schools, along with Carleton University in Ottawa. Now, a pair of Ryerson graduates based in Halifax are planning a 2017 long-form magazine, designed primarily as an antidote to clickbait.
What makes the efforts of Matthew Halliday and Chelsea Murray even more uplifting to FishbowlNY is that the news was delivered by Local Express, a “journalist-run digital upstart.” Per Andrea Nemetz’s piece, there is a Kickstarter campaign designed to fund the first batch of stories, with a subscription-model envisioned for the long haul.
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