Category: Blog

Freeloaders, it’s time to pay up. That’s the message being sent by The New York Times, anyhow, as the paper announced yesterday it was changing the number of free articles visitors to the website could access each month. When the paywall was first introduced in March of last year,the Times said that visitors to the paper’s website could access up to… Continue reading The New York Times tightens its “porous” paywall

Sometimes journalists get it wrong. In the case of National Public Radio’s This American Life, it was the fact-checking process that caused the popular radio show to air a retraction for its most-downloaded episode, “Mike Daisey and the Apple Factory.” The mistake was letting Daisey’s story air, and the staff freely admit it. The show never… Continue reading Mike Daisey and the This American Life retraction show

“That Was Then, This Is Now” explores the beginnings of some of Canada’s favourite writers and journalists. Jian Ghomeshi, host of CBC’s arts and culture show Q, started as a music artist on the other side of the microphone, just like those he interviews daily. Ghomeshi was raised in Thornhill, just north of Toronto. While his family… Continue reading That Was Then, This Is Now: Jian Ghomeshi

It’s taken a few days, but Joseph Kony’s now-infamous last name has finally disappeared from my list of trending Twitter topics. And considering how viral Invisible Children‘s Kony 2012 film and the ensuing controversy were, that’s quite a feat. Like many others, until only a few days ago, I was completely unaware of Kony, head of Ugandan guerrilla… Continue reading Keeping up with the #Kony2012 controversy

When I decided I wanted to be a journalist, I was motivated by a desire to help people. I thought I could help more people by writing about major concerns than by actually working to stop the problem. In retrospect, I may have chosen the wrong profession, but I still believe that as journalists we… Continue reading Anthropographia: A different way to tell a story