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19 Aug

All journalists should be interviewed regularly

Journalists are accustomed to asking the questions, not answering them, but freelancer John Longhurst finds that being interviewed can help reporters understand how sources feel. Our Field Notes section (formerly […]

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14 Jul

When national media descends on a small town story

When big, national media flooded into tiny Woodstock, Ont. to cover the mysterious abduction of eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, the tenor of the story changed. There was a very real […]

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23 Jun

Untangling the story with facts, figures and FOI

Simcoe Reformer reporter Monte Sonnenberg was standing in his driveway when a local factory worker stopped by with a news tip. Here’s how that tip turned into a National Newspaper Award-winning investigative series. […]

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16 Jun

From beat reporter to book author 500 words at a time

ByRod McQueen People used to tug on my drinking arm at receptions and say, “I’ve always wanted to be an author. How do you write a book?” I had a […]

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9 Jun

Some day, you’ll cover a health crisis

By Karen PalmerI was in Arkansas in April when CNN began stepping up its coverage of reports of swine flu trickling across the Mexico-U.S. border. I was spending a long […]

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28 Apr

What journalists think about swine flu coverage

As swine flu cases spread across Canada, J-Source Tools for Reporters editor Larry Cornies is asking journalists and health experts for their assessment of the coverage given this story to […]

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29 Mar

The sea that shaped Montreal: the story behind the story

By Marian Scott One cold day in January 2008, I was interviewing Martin Lechowicz, a professor of biology at McGill University, for a story about trees on Mount Royal. He […]

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10 Feb

Plunging into radio

ByKim Pittaway My sister Tina and I had been talking about possibly collaborating on a radio documentary for some time. Radio is Tina’s turf. For much of the last decade, […]

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4 Nov

Yes, there are stories at the Paralympics

ByJim Morris I was one of only three Canadian print journalists who remained in Beijing to cover the Paralympics. That in and of itself is a sad commentary of how […]

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19 Sep

Not so friendly to science: a story’s ripple effect

ByJon Roe When I started at the Gauntlet, I really had no idea what I wanted to do after university. I surely never expected to win an award for journalism. […]

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