Archive
21 Mar

Field notes from Rwanda

By Charles GordonButare, Rwanda Teaching writing to university journalism students in Rwanda, you tend to see only a part of the student, the part that struggles to write in English, […]

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8 Mar

“‘Rye’ and coke”: Uncovering a university’s secret deals

by Robyn DoolittleEditor-in-Chief, The Eyeopener By the time I got back to the office, our issue with “Cracking Coke” had been on stands for about three hours. When I saw […]

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21 Nov

The fight for their lives: A reporters account

by Aaron Derfel In the days following the shooting rampage at Dawson College, I was sent by The Gazette to the Montreal General Hospital to report on how the gunshot […]

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26 Oct

Covering diversity

by Jeff HeinrichI have been covering the diversity beat full time since creating it at The Gazette in 2002, and am one of the few Canadian reporters to make it […]

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24 Oct

Sleepless in the Rockies

By Kinia Adamczyk For twelve intellectually stimulating days and eleven sleepless nights, I joined a Newsweek senior editor, a Globe and Mail journalist, along with assorted scholars and students for […]

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3 Oct

When Civil War Becomes Personal

By Haig Bailan Colombo, Sri Lanka — For the past month, while the front pages of world newspapers were dominated by news of bombs flying in Lebanon and Israel, the […]

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2 Oct

The curmudgeon and the kid: a veteran reporter and a young editor on working effectively

The unusual situation that this reporter and editor were in gave them both pause and their story leaves readers with a number of lessons in professional newsroom relationships. San Diego […]

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24 Aug

French monument to commemorate fallen journalists

Reporters Without Borders asks for help in compiling a list of all journalists killed around the world since 1944. The town of Bayeux, in Normandy, has decided to build a […]

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24 Aug

Blogging from Guatemala

Kinia Adamczyk, a journalism undergraduate at Concordia, is currently a media intern in Guatemala with Uniterra, an initiative of the Canadian Center for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI) and World […]

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24 Aug

Helping Hand for Women

by Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos Meerabai Rao and her husband, Yadav, were facing abject poverty when they got married 13 years ago. Now, thanks to microcredit, they are players in a […]

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