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18 Aug

A Canadian ex-pat journalist in London: Nice work if you can get it (and you can!)

By Ravi Ubha  I can recall speaking to the president of a British journalism association about a month or so before I departed for London in 2003. I asked about […]

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20 Jun

Capturing the moment in a camera’s lens

(photo taken by Paul Daly in Qatar) By Paul Daly As the Independent’s picture editor and only full time photographer, I work hand in hand with editors and reporters to […]

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18 Jun

Fraud and the family farm

By Mary Baxter, Robert Irwin & Don StonemanLast October a reader asked if Better Farming could look into Pigeon King International Inc. (PKI). Based in Waterloo, Ontario, this rapidly-growing company […]

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21 May

On the air: a voice for the voiceless

by Kim Kierans This story was more than a year in the making. It started in May 2006. I was in Manila researching a paper on radio in Asia and […]

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12 May

Courage to report — and report on — domestic violence

by Elisabeth Johns As the cops, courts and everything-in-between reporter for the Standard Freeholder in Cornwall, Ont., I had to check the police blotter every day. Day in and day […]

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2 May

Renewed purpose in Abu Dhabi

by Ray Beauchemin Last night we put to bed another issue of The National, the new English-language newspaper that has taken up residence in Abu Dhabi. We’ve only been publishing […]

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18 Apr

Tapped out? A reporter’s challenge to get the information flowing

by Linda Gyulai Initially, The Gazette planned to run a series of articles exploring warnings of an impending global water crisis. As the paper’s city hall reporter, I was asked […]

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17 Mar

Keeping the journalism in videojournalism

by Nicole Lampa I love being a journalist. I don’t love being a videojournalist.  Four years ago, I agreed to become a videojournalist after stints as a producer for Report […]

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25 Feb

A sane distance: trauma, tragedy, and the reporter

by Ethan Baron I had a dream about Willie Pickton the night after he was sentenced to life in prison. I’d already had nightmares after gruesome days in court, but […]

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23 Jan

Searching for a killer’s motive

by Sue Montgomery In the immediate aftermath of the Dawson College shooting, I noticed a trend emerging in the media to paint the killer, Kimveer Gill, as evil, a sinister […]

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