About Torontoist
Torontoist focuses on absolutely everything related to Toronto, including news, arts, events, culture, transit, politics, photography, advertising, street art and graffiti, food, and a whole lot more. Established in October 2004 as part of the fourteen-city Gothamist network, Torontoist is now the largest, most influential, and most widely-read website of its kind in Canada, with 250,000 visits and 500,000 pageviews each month (as of March 2008).
We have an incredibly talented staff loaded with dozens of writers, photographers, artists, and various other creative types, and the diversity of that staff—spread across interests, opinions, age groups, income levels, and any other imaginable category—accounts for the diversity in our content and our readership. The readers and staff do, however, have some things in common: they're all smart and deeply passionate about our city.
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Torontoist appreciates and welcomes feedback or questions from readers, the press, advertisers, politicians, celebrities, pseudo-celebrities, rock stars, and...well, pretty much anyone, actually.
E-MAIL
If you have a hot tip of any kind, please e-mail it to tips@torontoist.com (and let us know if you want to remain anonymous).
For anything else, please contact our editors, David Topping (david@torontoist.com) and Marc Lostracco (marc@torontoist.com). We read all of our e-mail and reply super-fast.
If you wish to contact a particular contributor, please use our staff page to find their contact information, or contact an editor if their address is unlisted.
REGULAR MAIL
Though we generally prefer to deal with everything online, we do accept materials that don't quite have the same magic online (books, CDs, fine art, large quantities of money, and so on) via regular mail. Please contact David Topping (david@torontoist.com) to arrange delivery.
PHONE
If you need to reach us over the phone, please send us an e-mail first to get our digits. We don't give our number out to just anyone, you know.
Advertising
You'll probably want to check out our advertising page, which includes our media kit. Please contact Adrian Ma (adrian@torontoist.com) for all advertising inquiries.
Get A Job!
Torontoist is always looking for talented individuals to join our team. Read this for more details.
Things You Can Do
Aside from becoming a staff member on Torontoist, there are plenty of other ways you can get involved on Torontoist.
Tip us off! If there's anything you want us to write about, send an e-mail about it to tips@torontoist.com.
Streeter is for bits and pieces of hilarious, weird, or brilliant overheard conversations, and it's wide open for reader submissions. Be our ears on the street; send what you hear to streeter@torontoist.com.
Vandalist is Torontoist's new forum for street art. You can learn more about the purpose and submission guidelines for Vandalist.
You have questions. Snappy Answers has, uh, snappy answers.
Inspired by Londonist's Touch Up London, a feature that got the site's readers to manipulate photos of their city (some shoved huge robot monsters into their downtown, others depicted rogue ferris wheels), Touch Up Toronto aims to accomplish much of the same non-destructive havoc with Toronto. Check out the submission guidelines.
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EDITOR:
David Topping
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Marc Lostracco
PUBLISHER AND CO-FOUNDER
: Jake Dobkin
EXECUTIVE EDITOR AND CO-FOUNDER
: Jen Chung
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Please review Gothamist's comment policy or our recently-written letter concerning editorial policy.
In brief, we have no over-arching editorial stances. We are not pro-advertising, or anti-advertising; we are not pro-graffitti, or anti-graffiti; we are not pro-corporation, or anti-corporation. Individual writers may have stances, but we, as a shared entity and a collective, do not, and that distinction between individual and group is an important one. No one person, the editors included, represent the entirety of our staff, nor is there any one "Torontoist Writer" mould that our staff fits into. We don't expect—or want—our staff or our readers to agree with everything that they see on Torontoist. We are pro-Toronto, and that is all that matters.
FAQ
Is it Torontoist, or The Torontoist?
Just plain old Torontoist works for us. You can throw in "The" if you really want to, but that requires one extra syllable and four extra key strokes, and who has that kind of time?
What are those things in your logo?
From left to right, they are: The CN Tower, City Hall, the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), and a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) streetcar. We have a big crush on the ROM Crystal; it might eventually find its way up there.
Are you, technically, a blog?
Sort of? It's probably the closest name that fits our format, though our content is somewhere between that of a blog, a newspaper, and a magazine (sometimes more in one category than the others). We defy categorization!
Are you on Facebook? And Twitter?
Why yes, yes we are. Add yourself as a fan of ours on Facebook today! Or keep up with our latest articles on Twitter.
Where do you get all your photos?
Those that we don't take ourselves are often from our extremely awesome Flickr pool that features tons of photos submitted by our readers.
What about sponsored articles or advertorials?
Torontoist does not, has not, and will not feature sponsored articles (or "advertorials") without full disclosure of that fact.
I don't like this "summary" view thing on the front pages that only shows me excerpts of articles! I want to see the full articles!
Easy! Just go to the top right of the page (where it says "Summary View"), click CHANGE THIS, and change the view to "View Full." Learn more about different views here.
They Like Us! They Really Like Us!
We're Forbes' Choice for The Best of the Web in the Best City Blog category, with the Gothamist network; NOW Magazine's Choice for Best Blog in their Best of Toronto Issue (October 2005); a Finalist and First Runner-Up for Best Local Blog in the 2006 Canadian Blog Awards; and a Finalist for "Best Canadian Weblog" in the 2006 & 2007 Bloggies.
We've been featured in a number of local, national, and international publications. Sometimes, the papers pick up a cool story from us and run with it, and sometimes they just write whole articles about Torontoist (those are our favourites). We're big fans of the following publications and high-traffic internet sites, for no reason other than that we've appeared in them—in some cases, many, many times (those are the ones that we've put stars beside):
TORONTO/CANADA
: The Toronto Star*, The Globe & Mail*, The National Post*, Toronto Life*, Toronto Sun, Eye Weekly*, CBC Radio*, U of T Magazine, Metro*, 24 Hours, NOW*, The Toronto Sun*, The Vancouver Sun, The Calgary Herald, The Montreal Gazette, and The Saskatoon Star-PhoenixRyerson Review of Journalism*, The Varsity*, The Ryersonian, CFRB 1010, The Strand* and The Underground.
INTERNATIONAL
: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Guardian, New York Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly.
THE INTERNET
: We're internet famous, and we've been featured prominently on high-traffic sites like Boing Boing* and Jezebel, and been a popular link on user-driven sites like Digg*, Reddit*, Metafilter*, Fark*, and del.icio.us*. Also, we were mentioned on I Can Has Cheezburger? this one time.
Last Updated: May 7, 2008.