The Ryerson Review of Journalism is going into its 24th year with features on new Toronto Star editor-in-chief Fred Kuntz, CBC foreign correspondent Connie Watson and the bloody business of war reporting.

The RRJ is holding a fundraiser on Tuesday, Nov. 6. At 9 p.m., at The Social on 1100 Queen St. West. It’s called, “Lies for Liars, from the old boys to Blair and Glass.”

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RRJ editor Carla Wintersgill

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased in RCC 101.

RyersOnline sat down with spring editor Carla Wintersgill to talk about the upcoming issue and the event.  

Tell me a bit about the “lying” event?

The Lies for Liars is the fundraiser for the spring masthead for the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Every year we have a couple fundraising parties, one in the fall, one in the spring to raise some money for front of book.

Last year they had some really nice silver lettering on the cover, and our fundraisers go to things like that. I guess it’s going to be a fun theme party were going to dress up (in) old style press hats, that kind of thing.

Are you going have any special guests this year?

Were not sure yet, hopefully people from the industry are going to come.

What kind of music are you going to have?

Dancing music, I’m not sure

Where is the money going?

The money goes towards production costs.

Tell me a bit about the RRJ. Are you going to be making any changes to it?

We have a new designer, Levi Nicholson, he came on board a little while into it. He is working on the design. The layout is a lot cleaner, a lot sharper. We’ve actually won some design awards.

So, what are some of the stories?

We have a story we’re going to look at service journalism in Canada and the movement towards that.

We have a really exciting profile of Fred Kuntz, who just took over as editor of The Star, and what he’s done over there.

A look at foreign correspondents, we have several foreign correspondent stories. We have one about Connie Watson, who’s a foreign correspondent in Latin America. Our reporter is actually in Argentina right now.

And we have one that looks at war reporting, which is really interesting as well.

What’s your main goal as editor for the issue?

My goal as the spring editor would be not to have the review fall down around me! (laughs).
 
The Ryerson Review, it’s an award winning magazine. It has a national reputation, people do recognize it, it’s read by industry professionals.

It’s a lot of pressure on fourth year students, we are students, but we go into it with a professional mentality.

My goal is to just keep going in the direction that we are, I want our issue to win the design. It was good last year but I want it to be better than last year.