By Teuila Fuatai for rabble Bosses at the Canada’s largest independent newspaper are proposing more staff cuts and salary reductions than those that led to a newsroom strike four months ago, the Halifax Typographical Union says. The union (HTU), which represents 57 editorial staff currently on strike, announced this afternoon a week of negotiations with management…
New J-Source work and labour editor Errol Salamon on the importance of labour reporting.
Eleven of the magazine pieces she edited last year have been nominated for NMA awards.
Ho’s Toronto Life story “Jennifer Pan’s Revenge” explores why Pan tried to have her parents killed.
Why developing professional relationships with police officers matters for crime reporters.
By Paige Kreutzwieser Barb Pacholik, a senior reporter at the Regina Leader-Post, tackled a difficult subject in her piece “Betrayal: What do you do when you discover your friend is a pedophile?” Pacholik received a 2014 Beyond Borders Award for the feature that focused on Jon Walsh and his friend Bradley Chanin. After Walsh found…
By Donald Teuma-Castelletti When CBC multimedia journalist Olivia Stefanovich stepped off the plane in Attawapiskat, Ont., on Monday, April 11, she had no idea what to expect. She had reported about the Cree reserve before from her home base in Sudbury, Ont., but she had yet to visit it. But over the weekend, 11 young…
By Kendall P. Latimer On Feb.2, Kelly Geraldine Malone’s 4,000-word article “Why Indigenous Women Are Canada’s Fastest Growing Prison Population” was published on Vice, sparking a national dialogue about incarceration rates of Indigenous women. The Saskatoon-based journalist still considers herself green—despite an extensive resume, a journalism degree from University of Regina and national and prairie…
By Michael Conor McCarthy When Teresa Wright, chief political reporter for Charlottetown’s newspaper The Guardian, covered the news on March 31 that a clinic for women’s reproductive health would be constructed on P.E.I., she considered it an important moment in the island’s history. The choices women make about their bodies should be theirs alone. An…