By Lisa Coxon When Rod Mickleburgh was a labour reporter for The Vancouver Sun in the 1970s, he worked the night shift. Because that meant no deadlines, he’d sit at his desk, call union leaders at home and have long chats. After more than a decade on the beat, Mickleburgh had the sources and the instincts to… Continue reading What we lose when papers give up on beat reporting
Category: Spring 2014
‘The company does not love you’: the editorial cartoon after Roy Peterson
By Shannon Clarke [doptg id=”2″] “They’re not going to like this,” thought copy editor Cheryl Parker as she walked Roy Peterson’s last cartoon through The Vancouver Sun newsroom in 2009. The caricature showed Peterson dressed as Father Time, holding a newspaper with the headline “Newspaper terminates editorial cartoonist” and a sign that read, “The End Is Nigh!” Parker… Continue reading ‘The company does not love you’: the editorial cartoon after Roy Peterson
Do Rob Ford reporters have a transparency problem?
By Luc Rinaldi On a summer afternoon in August 2011, Globe and Mail investigative reporter Greg McArthur sent an email to his editor with the subject line, “Ideas.” Inside, he suggested: “A portrait of Rob Ford as a young man—who is Rob Ford, really?” Alongside freelancer Shannon Kari, McArthur called Ford’s high school classmates and hunted down yearbooks.… Continue reading Do Rob Ford reporters have a transparency problem?