By Sylvia Stead for The Globe and Mail In just over a week, the United States will go to the polls in an election that has been unprecedented – not just because of the bizarre nature of the campaign, but because of the impact it has had on journalists, both personally and professionally, in their…
By Nadine Tousignant for CNW Angela Sterritt is an award-winning Gitxsan journalist, artist and writer, from British Columbia. Sterritt has worked as a journalist for close to twenty years and has been with CBC since 2003. Her reports have appeared in the Globe and Mail, The National, CBC’s The Current, and various other national and local news programs. She tells us…
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor When a group of protesters in Muskrat Falls in Labrador cut the locks on the gate of a controversial hydroelectric project and marched in, journalist Justin Brake followed the story. “I just continued to do my job as a journalist,” he said. As a result, he was among 22 people…
By Kate Skelly Polling has never been more important than throughout the 2016 U.S. election, according to CBC’s poll analyst Éric Grenier. “Polling does have some caveats. It does have some caution that you have to exercise with it. But it isn’t the bad thing that people make it out to be,” he said. “It’s…
By Mitchell Thompson Black Press, the British Columbia-based news company with a near monopoly on Vancouver Island, has launched a free daily after a string of newspaper closures. The new paper, the Vancouver Island Free Daily, launched Sept. 27 and is being helmed by managing editor Philip Wolf and content editor John McKinley, with Wolf…
By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Can we talk, please, about that baseball team from Cleveland that dare not speak its name on this particular page of the Toronto Star. It’s not surprising that some readers are vexed and confused by what looks to them to be a gap between what a Star editorial…