April 18, 2014
Luc Rinaldi & Abigale Subdhan
Peter Worthington , Toronto Sun
A tribute to the Toronto Sun co-founder, risk taker and fierce journalist.
By Luc Rinaldi & Abigale Subdhan In May 1976, three Mounties walked into Peter Worthington’s glass-walled Toronto Sun office with a search warrant. They wanted a leaked RCMP letter that contained information about Canadians charged with espionage and treason, which the Sun editor had recently mentioned in a column. He refused to hand it over. When they pleaded for […]
March 1, 1988
Dave Stonehouse
African National Congress , Bartholomew Hlapane , graphic video , Hlapane murder , Peter Worthington , raw footage , Ryerson Review of Journalism , video censorship
The red terrorist menace in South Africa - written by Peter Worthington, produced by Peter Worthington and starring Peter Worthington
A three-second aerial shot shows the tops of shacks in a rural slum. The as yet unseen narrator tells you it is Soweto, a black township in South Africa, “the scene of so many necklacings and violence.” Violins pitch and drone eerily behind his commentary. Now you’re on the ground, about 10 metres from a […]
