Shannon Clarke

Women in the media: Steve Paikin’s missed opportunity

Women in the media: Steve Paikin’s missed opportunity

By Shannon Clarke Image via The Agenda’s YouTube channel. “Where, Oh Where, Are All The Female Guests?” started out well enough. After questions about the lack of diversity on TheAgenda, anchor and senior editor Steve Paikin took his exasperation online. The producers, he wrote, are committed to gender parity, having tried for years to include more women on […]

 Shannon Clarke

‘The company does not love you’: the editorial cartoon after Roy Peterson

‘The company does not love you’: the editorial cartoon after Roy Peterson

From his termination at The Vancouver Sun to his role in the community of illustrators, we remember the "Great Cartoonist"

By Shannon Clarke “They’re not going to like this,” thought copy editor Cheryl Parker as she walked Roy Peterson’s last cartoon through The Vancouver Sun newsroom in 2009. The caricature showed Peterson dressed as Father Time, holding a newspaper with the headline “Newspaper terminates editorial cartoonist” and a sign that read, “The End Is Nigh!” Parker took it […]