This is one of a series of articles and videos on the June 2017 conference “Is no local news bad news? Local journalism and its future” hosted by the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre. Watch the full conference panel below. To read more about the conference and local news, visit: localnews.journalism.ryerson.ca. By ANGELA LONG Staff reporter If you want to learn about the Muslim community, don’t read the news, says the associate editor of The Islamic Monthly. Steven Zhou, who converted to Islam six years ago, said writing about a community takes time and resources. As a result, too many publications…
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BY: ALLISON RIDGWAY Staff Reporter When Kamal Al-Solaylee saw a group of Filipina maids enjoying a picnic in a Hong Kong park during their time off work one Sunday afternoon in 2011, the concept for his next book began to form. That idea solidified when, back home and riding the subway in Toronto, he again saw a large group of Filipina workers talking together and realized that both groups, though an ocean apart, shared two things in common: their work and their skin colour. “I started thinking about the connection between skin colour and work,” explained Al-Solaylee, a professor at…