Paige Magarrey

The Little Paper That Shrank

The Little Paper That Shrank

After the resignation of editor-in-chief Jim Jennings, Sun Media is set to rationalize editorial with its "Centres of Excellence," producing identical content for Sun papers in different cities

On the night of Tuesday, September 19, Toronto Sun city hall reporter Rob Granatstein heard something that upset him. Please say it isn’t so, wrote Granatstein in an email to Jim Jennings. Right now, I’m still your editor-in-chief, replied Jennings. Wait until 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. Then we’ll talk. At 10 a.m. the next morning […]

 Paige Magarrey

The “Gee Whiz” Effect

The “Gee Whiz” Effect

Bob McDonald and his Quirks & Quarks colleagues cover science with infectious enthusiasm. It's a 32-year-old formula that still offers lessons on how to make difficult topics compelling

The toys look like muses. They line the office partitions, overlooking producers at their desks in this third-floor corner of the Canadian Broadcasting Centre: a small dinosaur, a baseball in a case, an uncompleted Rubik’s Cube, a shot glass, a tiny model space shuttle, two snow globes, a Pez dispenser, a model of an atom […]