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Grievance journalism: restricted access inspires series
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September 7, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Three Victoria Times Colonist journalists, frustrated by repeated delays in accessing public court documents, decided to conduct an experiment with the BC court system. What they found - that the public is routinely and wrongly denied access to information - inspired an award-winning series. Rob Shaw shares the story behind the story.
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Riot survival guide for journalists
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July 27, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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 Freelance journalist Dominik Bärlocher has spent the past three years on “riot duty” at a Swiss newspaper. He’s turned his experience covering violent football riots and May Day protests into a handy survival guide for journalists about what to wear, how to behave in protest crowds and minimize the effect of crowd control weapons, and what to do if you’re arrested...
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Covering the Vatican
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June 8, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Ellin Bessner, a Jewish journalist, was a card-carrying member of the Vatican Press Association in the late 80s. She discusses the screening process, the uber-modern newsroom and how covering the Vatican is a lot like covering the police beat...
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Autojournalist's son crashes Porsche
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May 20, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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In a classic Ferris Bueller move, the 18-year-old son of Globe and Mail autojournalist Peter Cheney crashes a $180,000 Porsche...
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The truth about Tiger
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May 5, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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The accusations started soon after Tiger Woods' extramarital activities hit the tabloids. Golf columnist Lorne Rubenstein dispels the myths around Tiger's fall from grace.
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Haiti: the ultimate testing ground for reporters
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January 19, 2010 - Posted by Larry Cornies
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 Port-au-Prince is where journalists can learn what to do when telephones fail, the lights go out, your car breaks down, your fixer doesn't show up and your guts are in diarrheal agony, writes Claude Adams, who first reported from Haiti in1987. But what he suffered is "mere purgatory compared to the hell correspondents are undergoing now."
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Lang conquered her fear to make a difference
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January 6, 2010 - Posted by Regan Ray
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Before she headed off to report in Afghanistan, Michelle Lang asked her
colleague, Calgary Herald editorial page editor Licia Corbella, about
her experiences in the country and about being afraid. In a column written soon after Lang's death in Afghanistan, Corbella wrote...
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Five minutes of Al Gore, then everybody out except...
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December 8, 2009 - Posted by Jody White
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If anyone is still in need of proof that the news media industry is
changing, a recent Al Gore speech in Toronto was a case in point. After playing an email version of cat and mouse with the PR rep for Allstream's "An evening with Al Gore"
on November 24, I managed to secure media passes for myself and a
photographer. Following a gracious greeting by doormen at the end of
the red carpet, the smiling media registrar informed us where to set
up, what time the event would commence, and offered to escort us to the
media area. There was only one catch, she explained...
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A million stories that can’t be reported
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December 4, 2009 - Posted by Regan Ray
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 While working as a reporter and news anchor at a two English-language radio stations in Dubai there were a few moments when it felt like a solid news station, writes Kimberly Gale. But there were still too many stories they couldn't touch.
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A first-person account from 
I’m a freelancer. I’m driven by hunger, boredom and ego and I’ll do anything, writes 
After sleeping on cardboard boxes, helping a woman in labour, running from a shaking embassy and telling endless tragic stories, 