Category: The Magazine

It used to be fun. It used to be challenging. It used to be what you wanted to do with your life. But it isn’t anymore. Deadlines are getting harder to meet, fresh stories harder to find and the long hours harder to endure. The money you once thought didn’t matter now does. And the… Continue reading Tuned In, Turned Off and Burned Out

Late in the afternoon of Friday, March 4, 1988, in a non-descript Toronto courtroom, a 25-year-old Greek immigrant was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to 30 days in prison, to be served on weekends. Given the rather commonplace nature of the crime, in a city of over two million, that should have been the… Continue reading Trial by Headline

The year is 1956. A wide-eyed, baby-faced young journalist, fresh from his first professional stint at Maclean Hunter, decides he’s ready for the Big Time: The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. There are no immediate openings, but he is given the opportunity to write for The Globe on a freelance basis. When the first… Continue reading Counterfeit Copy

November 20 to 26, 1989, was recycling week in Ontario. The province went about extolling the virtues of garbage reduction, reuse and recycling, but at the same time Canada’s only newsprint recycler announced it would temporarily shut down to reduce inventory. Even with the pressure on newspapers to use recycled newsprint, Quebec & Ontario Paper… Continue reading All the Paper That’s Fit to Reprint

There was no time for Doug Small to contemplate what sort of impact his budget leak story would have. As the broadcast journalist raced across Ottawa with the proof-a small pamphlet detailing the highlights of last April’s budget-he never dreamed it would spark a national controversy. Politically, the leak spelled yet another scandal for the… Continue reading No Small Affair