Fatima Syed

A look back at the news coverage of the Ottawa shooting

A look back at the news coverage of the Ottawa shooting

How live multimedia journalism successfully reported, recorded and retold the events of the day

On October 22, 2014, news of the Ottawa shooting began with a misspelled tweet and a cellphone video by Globe and Mail reporter Josh Wingrove. At the same time, veteran CBC cameraman Jean Brousseau quietly rolled his camera and collected raw footage that would later tell a full insider story while Bruce Arthur, sports columnist for the Toronto […]