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There is ‘no such thing as an uninteresting or insignificant life’ – excerpt from Sandra Martin’s Working the Dead Beat
You may think chronicling the lives of the dead is either the first or the last job you could have on a newspaper. But after years of writing obituaries for The Globe and Mail, Sandra Martin argues that it taught her there’s “no… -
Checking your bias
Do your biases affect your journalism? Field Notes Editor Nicole Blanchett Neheli talks with American J-prof Sue Ellen Christian, and reporters from across Canada, about strategies to ensure every story is as balanced as possible, and how reflection and ethics… -
Covering the U.S. election through expat eyes: The Globe and Mail’s citizen journalism project
When The Globe and Mail was planning its U.S. election coverage early this year, they had an idea: What if they used Canadian expatriates living in the United States to be their cultural translators, filtering and explaining the election news to readers… -
#NMPS2012: Public spheres, public spaces and “shit storms”
For journalists in particular, understanding the impact of what we say and do on the Internet is now an essential skill. But is it even possible to predict reaction to an offhand comment or in-depth story, or determine how much… -
Liveblog: New media and the public sphere conference in Copenhagen
Field Notes editor Nicole Blanchett-Neheli liveblogs from the New Media and the Public Sphere conference in Copenhagen on Nov. 8 and 9. … -
Developing citizen media in developing countries: Should Canada help?
What does a changing communications landscape and innovation in communication technology mean for media development in developing countries? Nicholas Benequista explains how he will find out. … -
Prorogation + Resignation = Consternation: How the Toronto Star handled McGuinty’s bombshell
Dalton McGuinty's surprise resignation and prorogation of the Ontario legislature left newsrooms nationwide scrambling. So how did the Toronto Star manage to pull together six comprehensive pages of coverage in a matter of hours? The Star's news editor, Jonathan P.… -
On reporting from the 1972 Summit Series
Like millions of Canadians Robert Lewis remembers exactly where he was when Paul Henderson scored the goal that won the 1972 Summit Series for Canada against the Soviet Union: In the stands at Moscow’s Luzhniki Ice Palace, reporting for Time magazine.… -
On the ground on 9/11: A journalist remembers
Documentary producer David Giddens was in New York, working on a different assignment, when the twin towers fell. Here, for J-Source, he shares his memories of covering one of the biggest stories ever—and his opinion on how the U.S. media… -
The ethics of gender sensitivity
When Toronto Star reporter Peter Edwards profiled a jail guard who underwent sex reassignment surgery, Edwards struggled with more than just which pronoun to use. In this week's column, he offers a first-person account of the issues behind the copy.…
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