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.
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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.
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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.
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How the documentary about Omar Khadr was made
Toronto Star national security reporter Michelle Shephard explains how Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr came together
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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 Globe and Mail reporter Kathy Tomlinson he was quitting the industry because of “all the realtors who are involved” who “tap into” offshore…
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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 site claims it’s like Yelp! for journalists). Carney, who has long been critical of the low fees magazines pay writers, told Contently that “… people…
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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,” said Farrah Khan, the sexual violence support and education counsellor at Ryerson University—the person reports what happens to the police and then never…
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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 and president of Halifax Herald Ltd. has not granted interviews to outside media as the strike at the Herald drags on, instead responding…
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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 no. I don’t think it’s in our DNA to say no,” she said. “I don’t think we could have lived with ourselves if…
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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 in hearing from journalists themselves about the experience of job loss, either through a layoff or a voluntary buyout. Canadian media companies have…