Jennifer Cheng

A novel approach

A novel approach

Fiction and journalism are contradictory, but equally relevant ways of getting at the truth.

By Jennifer Cheng It’s September 1982, and Linden MacIntyre has just sneaked into the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut with his camera crew and a taxi driver. Lebanon is in the midst of a civil war, and a week earlier, Christian militia had slaughtered hundreds—possibly thousands—of Palestinians. As the CBC broadcast journalist watches a front-end loader […]