Stories in the ashes: covering disaster in Lac-Mégantic

After a train exploded in a tiny Quebec town, some reporters stuck around and showed us the power of narrative journalism.

By Rebecca Melnyk  Inside his west-end Toronto apartment, Justin Giovannetti was cocooned in blankets, sick in bed with a bad cold on his day off. His cellphone rang. Dennis Choquette, his editor at The Globe and Mail, wanted him in the office. Giovannetti rolled off his mattress, slipped into his least flattering clothes and schlepped in […]