Sarah Fulford is the 33-year-old editorial boss of Toronto Life magazine, long considered to be somewhat Rosedaleian in its preoccupations.

So what's with the new emphasis on topics near and dear to 20 and 30-somethings?

From the Guardian blurb: He quit his job to continue covering the Afghanistan conflict, got shot during an ambush but went back again six months later. Photojournalist John D McHugh explains why he has returned once more.

For untold millenia, the Earth could keep the carbon content of its atmosphere roughly in balance. But the carbon spree that began with the Industrial Revolution has thrown that process wildly out of whack, claims a new study.

From the NYT:

With print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when big city dailies and national papers will abandon their print versions.

That day has arrived in Madison, Wis.

Barry Bearak of the New York Times dishes on his four days in incarceration while trying to cover the elections in Zimbabwe.

As I sat in a local Starbucks about 4:30 p.m., I did see streetcars heading eastward on Queen St. I took that to be tangible evidence that the great transit strike of 2008 was indeed over.

As public-sector strikes go, I'll take 10 transit strikes for every summer garbage strike. :)

However, I didn't get abandoned by the transit system at midnight on a Friday. My employer, CTV.ca News, was very generous.

And as this Toronto Star article noted, the people who get hurt the worst by a transit strike are those who can afford it the least -- students and the poor: