Field Notes
Jul 27, 2010
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
Freelance journalist Dominik Bärlocher has spent the past three years on “riot duty” at a Swiss newspaper. He’s turned his experience covering violent football riots and May Day protests into a handy survival guide for journalists about what to wear, how to behave in protest crowds and minimize the effect of crowd control weapons, and what to do if you’re arrested...
Freelance journalist Dominik Bärlocher has spent the past three years on “riot duty” at a Swiss newspaper. He’s turned his experience covering violent football riots and May Day protests into a handy survival guide for journalists about what to wear, how to behave in protest crowds and minimize the effect of crowd control weapons, and what to do if you’re arrested...
Jul 20, 2010
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
A first-person account from Real News Network
journalist Jesse Freeston on being beaten, denied access to public spaces and the story
police didn't want him to capture...
A first-person account from Real News Network
journalist Jesse Freeston on being beaten, denied access to public spaces and the story
police didn't want him to capture...
Jul 06, 2010
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
While the stories from Toronto's chaotic G20 weekend continue to trickle in, J-Source has created a roundup of stories from journalists who were on the ground...
Jun 29, 2010
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
The Toronto Star's Cathal Kelly goes where no journalist has gone before - behind the "wall of silence" of North Korea's soccer team. His trick: accidental injury...
Jun 08, 2010
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
Ellin Bessner, a Jewish journalist, was a card-carrying member of the Vatican Press Association in the late 80s. She discusses the screening process, the uber-modern newsroom and how covering the Vatican is a lot like covering the police beat...
May 20, 2010
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
In a classic Ferris Bueller move, the 18-year-old son of Globe and Mail autojournalist Peter Cheney crashes a $180,000 Porsche...
May 05, 2010
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
The accusations started soon after Tiger Woods' extramarital activities hit the tabloids. Golf columnist Lorne Rubenstein dispels the myths around Tiger's fall from grace.
Mar 02, 2010
- Posted by Larry
Cornies
I’m a freelancer. I’m driven by hunger, boredom and ego and I’ll do anything, writes Claude Adams. So he signed up to write Olympics pieces (paid-for...sort of) for Allvoices , a Los Angeles-based citizen journalism website. Here’s how it went.
I’m a freelancer. I’m driven by hunger, boredom and ego and I’ll do anything, writes Claude Adams. So he signed up to write Olympics pieces (paid-for...sort of) for Allvoices , a Los Angeles-based citizen journalism website. Here’s how it went.
Feb 02, 2010
- Posted by Regan
Ray
After sleeping on cardboard boxes, helping a woman in labour, seeing and smelling dead bodies and telling endless tragic stories with words and images, Montreal Gazette reporter Sue Montgomery and photojournalist Phil Carpenter give their accounts of the logistics, emotions, ethical dilemmas, frustrations and surprises they encountered on the ground in Haiti.
After sleeping on cardboard boxes, helping a woman in labour, seeing and smelling dead bodies and telling endless tragic stories with words and images, Montreal Gazette reporter Sue Montgomery and photojournalist Phil Carpenter give their accounts of the logistics, emotions, ethical dilemmas, frustrations and surprises they encountered on the ground in Haiti.
Feb 02, 2010
- Posted by Larry
Cornies
While seeing and smelling dead bodies and working amid the destruction, Gazette photojournalist Phil Carpenter reminded himself at all times that his photo subjects are people first.
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