There’s no camera person or producer when Semple hits the scene of a story. He single-handedly sets up, shoots and reports live. Check out this CBC video for a behind-the-scenes look.
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Reid Fiest is the new Alberta correspondent for Global National. He is currently a reporter and co-anchor of the Weekend Morning News with Global Calgary, and he has also filled in on Global National. Fiest will take over for Francis Silvaggio, who left Global in September and is now the senior communications adviser at…
By Gemma Richardson With Robin Williams’ death in August, how to cover suicide was once again topical—albeit briefly—in the media. Several weeks later, Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10 generated additional coverage. The sheer number of stories about the actor’s death fueled two common misconceptions: journalists only talk about suicide in an over-the-top, sensational manner,…
By Susan Newhook At the opening keynote of the Online News Association conference in Chicago last week, I found a seat next to one of this year’s 900 first-timers. He was a little daunted by the schedule and asked me, an ONA sophomore, for advice. “Don’t worry about getting to everything that looks interesting,” I told him. “You can’t,…
By Meredith Levine I am sitting in my office at Western University with my newly retired TV colleague Cliff Lonsdale, offering him some work. Cliff is notably unexcited by my offer. I don’t blame him. I’m in a mess, a pickle, and I can only afford modest compensation for what is, in effect, a rescue…
By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor Emily Keeler has been named books editor of the National Post. She replaces Mark Medley, who moved to The Globe and Mail as its books editor in September. According to her LinkedIn profile, Keeler is the editor of Little Brother Magazine and a weekly books columnist at Hazlitt. Her work has been published…
By David Crary, for the Associated Press Over and over, Kathy Gannon has re-lived the decisions that led to the death of her close friend Anja Niedringhaus and her own severe injuries, as they went about their jobs chronicling the story of Afghanistan. Gannon, a veteran Associated Press correspondent, and Niedringhaus, an award-winning AP photographer,…
By Janice Tibbetts A journalism student recently came into my office at Concordia University, musing about leaving the program because of the grim job prospects. She was looking for a lifeline ,some assurance that she might be able to work in the field after graduation and earn enough money to pay off her student debts.…
By Grant Buckler, for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has chosen Ukrainian journalist Oleksiy Matsuka as winner of the 2014 International Press Freedom Award (IPFA). The award will be presented to Matsuka at the 2014 CJFE gala on Dec. 3 in Toronto. Matsuka is a veteran investigative journalist from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine,…
By Amelia Buchanan and Jenna Guilbeault Mark Anderson, an Ottawa-based freelancer and journalism professor at Algonquin College, died on Oct. 16 of complications from throat cancer. He was 51. News of his death spread quickly and led to an abundance of heartfelt messages on social media from past and present students and colleagues. “Mark Anderson…