The Most Tales: Andrea Houston
Andrea Houston, reporter for Xtra, discusses her most groundbreaking story.
APTN Is Breaking Big with a Small Team of Dedicated Journalists
Reporters at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network toiled in obscurity—until they scooped the big guys on the Bruce Carson scandal
A box full of private emails, handed over at a gas station across from Collins Bay Penitentiary in Kingston, helped change what Canadian journalists think of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network news and current affairs division. APTN National News, which first went on air in 2002, positions itself as an alternative to mainstream broadcast news […]
The Journalist Is In—and Dishing about Doctors
Brian Goldman, an emergency room doctor and CBC Radio host, examines the medical community in White Coat, Black Art
One morning in 2009, Brian Goldman interviewed Michael Wansbrough in the doctors’ lounge at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. They discussed a pill the two had used to get through long night shifts. Modafinil, the generic name for a drug originally developed to treat narcolepsy, has been approved for shift workers, but it’s still a controversial […]
The Most Tales: Charlie Smith
Georgia Straight editor, Charlie Smith, discusses the most outlandish thing the Straight has done.
Katherine Monk Goes to the Movies and Offers the View from Her
One of the critics at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival is Postmedia’s Katherine Monk. As usual, she’s surrounded by male colleagues—but that just makes her perspective on the movies even more valuable
Few journalists showed up for the press conference at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie was terrible, but film critic Katherine Monk attended because “there was actually nothing else going on.” She was one of the only women in the room. The director was just “blabbing with the boys” when a reporter asked him for […]
Hana Gartner Investigates Life After Journalism
After 37 years at CBC, the master of the interview leaves the fifth estate and looks forward to whatever comes next
t was the worst possible time for Hana Gartner to develop a case of Montezuma’s revenge, but she was determined not to let it slow her down. After covering a story on Mennonite drug smugglers in Mexico for CBC’s the fifth estate, her plan was to make a quick layover in Toronto before flying to […]
Pioneer Spirits
Four trailblazers who have left old media's falling empires behind set out for new territories. Will they survive?
(Note: This is a somewhat longer version of the same story that originally appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of the RRJ – Ed) The local newscast in Victoria, B.C., looks much like any other local news broadcast. A handsome anchorman wearing a smart suit delivers news of the quest to find a young girl’s […]
How Designers Think
The Globe and Mail's visual evolution
I stand next to Adrian Norris, The Globe andMail’s managing editor of design and presentation. Norris, with a cardboard cup of cafeteria coffee in hand, gives me a brief tour of his second home: the redesign room, a closet-like visual spectacle of an offi ce tucked in the corner of the third floor. It’s hidden […]
