Series: Winter 2007

Kathy Gannon is the chief designate of the Associated Press Iran bureau, and was the AP correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1986-2005. She has covered Afghanistan for nearly 20 years, including the seizure of power by the Taliban in 1996 and its defeat in 2001. She is the author of I is for Infidel, a book about her experiences in Afghanistan,… Continue reading Right Story, Wrong Questions

When Will Braun attends Hope Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, he sits right at the back, where he feels most comfortable. Braun, a left-leaning activist, organic farmer, and editor of geez magazine — a quarterly launched in December 2005 — was raised in the southern Manitoba Bible Belt and felt frustrated with the insularity of the Church. “But… Continue reading Where Angels Fear to Tread

There was considerable discussion…Guidelines were circulated…We have tried to achieve…The rationale is…We’re on new ground here…We probably have already crossed some lines…Our goal is…We chose…We have tried, though not always successfully…We have to follow our own moral compass here…Those were things I would never have imagined saying on air before…We won’t report…We will report… Hear… Continue reading Defending Offence

When Stan Sutter came home on January 9, his 12-year-old daughter was waiting for him. Sutter had been working all day at Marketing magazine, where he was thenthe associate publisher and editorial director, and his daughter filled him in on the day’s big news. She had read online that Apple Inc., maker of her beloved iPod, was… Continue reading iMania

TheToronto Star, TheGlobe and Mail, National Post and TheNew York Times (at least on Sundays), seem to be required reading for the practising journalist. But at the newsstand last weekend, I bypassed all four and picked up an Us Weekly, offering the latest gossip on Britney Spears. Does she have a new guy? What’s the Golden Globe gossip? Yes, celebrity news… Continue reading Star Power