Going hungry: Canadians are starving for agriculture coverage

If food is the world’s most essential industry, why have newspapers forsaken the farm?

By Marilee Devries Laura Rance wants agriculture to be a beat at the Winnipeg Free Press—and she wants to be the reporter on it. She grew up on a farm, so she can see that coverage is lacking. It’s the mid-’80s, and Rance has been a general-assignment reporter for two-and-a-half years. She decides to lobby for […]