Even though it’s Saturday morning, the staff of Say Word is busy running a casting call for the next issue’s fashion spread. Young people scatter around an office on the third floor of a grey commercial building. Anita Singh stations herself at the entrance, greeting models; Tevin Thompson sets up the camera and lights for… Continue reading Say Word Keeps Kids Out of Trouble and Interested in Journalism
Category: The Magazine
If You Can’t Make Journalism Profitable, Make It Not-for-Profit
A few of Hamilton’s top-ranking police officers and their communications director gather in the Mulberry Street Coffeehouse, as rain gently falls outside on an August morning. They are still in uniform, hats off, looking relaxed as they joke with each other and ease into their chairs in a secluded corner. As investigative journalist and Canadian… Continue reading If You Can’t Make Journalism Profitable, Make It Not-for-Profit
Journalists with Disabilities Just Want to Be Journalists
When Catherine Frazee applied to study journalism at Carleton University in the 1970s, a senior official at the school told her she would not be able to “elbow her way into the scrum on Parliament Hill” and shouldn’t pursue a career in journalism because she was disabled. She then gave up her scholarship and her… Continue reading Journalists with Disabilities Just Want to Be Journalists
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Is Easy to Sensationalize, Hard to Explain
Francis Monroe McAllister lived in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and died alone outside on a snowy night when the 650 shelter beds in the city were full. Mark Hume, writer for The Globe and Mail, told McAllister’s story in “Dead End Streets,” a 2006 series that painted an eloquent picture of poverty and urban struggle in… Continue reading Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Is Easy to Sensationalize, Hard to Explain
APTN Is Breaking Big with a Small Team of Dedicated Journalists
A box full of private emails, handed over at a gas station across from Collins Bay Penitentiary in Kingston, helped change what Canadian journalists think of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network news and current affairs division. APTN National News, which first went on air in 2002, positions itself as an alternative to mainstream broadcast news… Continue reading APTN Is Breaking Big with a Small Team of Dedicated Journalists