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Covering disasters beyond the eye of the storm: Pull Quotes Season Three, Episode Seven

In season three, episode seven of Pull Quotes, the team examines how journalists cover disasters. https://rrj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PullQuotesEp7_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Ashley Fraser
February 4, 2020

During Hurricane Maria, Alex Dick-Read fled to his neighbour's house across the street as his own home collapsed / Photo courtesy Alex Dick-Read

Doing good work

Covering Irma from Florida to the Caribbean

When disasters hit, newsrooms and wire services turn to those already on the ground.

Amy van den Berg
January 24, 2018

Many residents evacuated the city as Fort McMurray became embroiled with flames. (Courtesy Robert Murray/Fort McMurray Today)

Inside the Business

No Newsroom, No Problem

How Fort McMurray Today’s four-person news team covered a national disaster

Benjamin Waldman
November 22, 2017

Chuck Klosterman’s Analysis of a Finished TV Show for a Defunct Website

The RRJ recommends you read Chuck Klosterman’s meditation on “Mad Men” protagonist Don Draper, “A New Don,” written for the now... Read more →

The Award-Winning Canadian Documentary, Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr

The RRJ recommends that you watch Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr released in 2015, and directed by Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard.... Read more →

Two Long Takes From Jimmy Breslin

The RRJ recommends you read “A Death In Emergency Room One” and “A Part of Cop’s Past Lies Dead” by the... Read more →

Kathryn Schulz’s “When Things Go Missing”

The RRJ recommends you read “When Things Go Missing” by Kathryn Schulz, from the Feb. 13, 2017 issue of The New Yorker.... Read 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... Read more →

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