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Photographer Lyle Owerko on 9/11, the day “no birds sang”

The photographer who captured one of the most famous images of the World Trade Towers explains how instinct carried him through the day.
How the story of a young stroke victim became an in-depth, interactive CBC feature

Saving Sid, a 6,000-word interactive CBC feature, captured 260,000 page views in one day.
Mary Agnes Welch on a career covering public policy

A day before she left the Free Press to become a pollster, Welch reflects on some of the big stories of her career.
How the documentary about Omar Khadr was made

Toronto Star national security reporter Michelle Shephard explains how Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr came together
As BC vows real estate investigation, the story behind the exposé

By David P. Ball for the Tyee The scandal rattling B.C.’s real estate sector this week started with a single word: “Realtors.” While researching Vancouver home demolitions last year, a builder told…
Freelancers’ Dues: Getting paid in the digital age

By Nicole Cohen, Work and Labour Editor Back in October, freelance journalist Scott Carney launched Word Rates, a website for freelance journalists to pool information about publications’ pay rates, editors, and contracts (the…
Live-tweeting the Ghomeshi trial demystifies court process

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Many people don’t understand what it’s like for sexual violence survivors to go through the criminal justice system. “Often times, we think that it’s cut and dried,”…
The silence of the Chronicle Herald CEO

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Eighteen days into the Chronicle Herald strike, and all of the statements from Mark Lever have come in the pages of the newspaper he runs. The CEO…
Reporting from Ebola’s ground zero

By Lana Hall In 2014, CBC correspondent Adrienne Arsenault cut her vacation short to accept a gig covering the worst outbreak of Ebola in history. She barely hesitated. “I can’t imagine saying…
New research project wants to find out what happens when journalists leave journalism

By Nicole Cohen Over the past few weeks, journalists and commentators have been debating how to make sense of the recent round of layoffs in Canadian journalism. Two Canadian researchers are interested…