The ''Review of Journalism'' (formerly the ''Ryerson Review of Journalism'') is a Canadian

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, published annually by final-year journalism students at

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. The magazine profiles personalities, issues and controversies in Canadian

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. In addition to the features in the printed magazine, weekly online features and a daily blog are maintained by the staff of the ''Review''. The magazine's mandate has, from the very beginning, asked ''What does this mean for Canadian journalism now?'' Don Obe, who was chair of then-Ryerson's journalism school in mid-1983, began planning for a student-produced magazine project. The first issue of the ''Ryerson Review of Journalism'' was printed in April 1984. The magazine has won a number of

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s, as well as citations by ''

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'' and ''

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'' and a number of awards from the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2021, what was then Ryerson University's school of journalism announced that it would be renaming the publication as well as '' The Ryersonian'' before the 2021–2022 school year to remove any reference to Egerton Ryerson, an architect of the

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. The 2021 winter semester issue was published as '' Review of Journalism'', using brackets to elide Ryerson's name from the title; one day after a vigil was held on campus commemorating 215 suspected dead Indigenous children found at

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, the school announced plans to permanently rename the magazine. In September 2021, it was announced that the publication's new name is the ''Review of Journalism''. In 2024, the magazine will turn 40 years old. The Review of Journalism will launch a special 40th-year edition.

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