Hed: (n) Newsroom jargon for headlines Headlines are tricky. They have to grab flighty readers’ attention, tell a story, and hopefully even squeeze in a witticism. The smallest choices affect readers’ first impressions and, sometimes, their only take on the story. Once a week, we analyze the different ways news outlets present the same story.… Continue reading A Public Peek Into Trump’s Taxes
March 13th: Even More Postmedia Layoffs, Vault 7, and more
These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: Postmedia announced last week it will lay off 54 employees from its Pacific Newspaper Group, which includes the Vancouver Sun and Province. The layoffs are the second phase of Postmedia’s most recent round of salary cuts, the first of which saw 38 PNG staffers… Continue reading March 13th: Even More Postmedia Layoffs, Vault 7, and more
Alison Motluk’s “Uncommon Ancestry”
The best health stories are about empathy, about seeing clearly that all that separates you, the reader, from the story’s subject is an accident or genetics. Alison Motluk’s “Uncommon Ancestry” in Hazlitt is gripping not only because of the inherent drama of its premise—that there are many existing cases where fertility doctors impregnated patients with their… Continue reading Alison Motluk’s “Uncommon Ancestry”
Trump tweets a wiretapping conspiracy theory
Hed: (n) Newsroom jargon for headlines Headlines are tricky. They have to grab flighty readers’ attention, tell a story, and hopefully even squeeze in a witticism. The smallest choices affect readers’ first impressions and, sometimes, their only take on the story. Once a week, we analyze the different ways news outlets present the same story.… Continue reading Trump tweets a wiretapping conspiracy theory
March 7th: Wiretapping, Torstar’s New CEO, and more
These are the stories we’re watching this week. Here is your Weekly Wire: U.S. President Donald Trump started off his weekend by claiming former president Barack Obama bugged Trump Tower shortly before election day last November. His sources? Right-wing talk show host Mark Levin and Breitbart News, which cited tangentially-related stories by way of right-wing site Heatstreet. Obama… Continue reading March 7th: Wiretapping, Torstar’s New CEO, and more
