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Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 6: Iman Adem on the conundrums of photojournalism

Tara De Boer talks with Iman Adem about the ethics of photojournalism and exploitation of the subjects of photographs in today’s media environment

Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 5: Hyeji Yoon on Western media coverage of North Korea

In the fifth episode of season six, host Silas Le Blanc talks to Hyeji Yoon about her Review-exclusive story on the way the Western media covers North Korea, and what it misses.
The CBC Toronto building as seen from one of the higher floors.

Forever Temporary

They work hard. They stick around. And yet many of them are never offered jobs. How CBC treats its temporary workers—and how some are fighting back.

Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 4: Carly Penrose on the coverage of the Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal

In the fourth episode of season six, host Tara De Boer talks to Carly Penrose on her Review-exclusive story about carefully navigating the turbulent waters of the Canadian sports industry—and interviewing those who reported on it.

The Planetary Press

From communicating complexity, to the risk of scaring audiences away, environmental journalists face no shortage of challenges.

Pull Quotes Season 6 Episode 3: Maddy Mahoney on the evolution of advice columns

In the third episode of season six, host Silas Le Blanc talks to Maddy Mahoney on her Review-exclusive story about the history of advice columns, their advice columnists, as well as how the medium has evolved throughout the years.

Pull Quotes: Season 6, Episode 2: Tony Milton on the fall of Now Magazine

In the second episode of season six, host Tara De Boer interviews Anthony ‘Tony’ Milton on his Review-exclusive story about the past, present, and tentative future of Now magazine.

Pull Quotes: Season 6, Episode 1: ChatGPT, text-generative AI and the newsroom

In the first episode of season six, host Timothy Cooke talks to a computer scientist and a newsroom digital developer about ChatGPT and the future of other text-generative AI in newsrooms.

Behind The Camera

On a frosty January morning this year, Tori Yorgey was reporting on water main breaks for WSAZ NewsChannel 3 in West Virginia, when she was hit by a car on live television. Yorgey was taken to a hospital to be checked out and suffered no lasting injuries, but the incident highlighted just how dangerous the job of a solo video journalist is.

Dos and Don’ts

Mike LaPointe darts back in from the cold, flexing his fingers to warm them up as he sits down to write. One hour inside, then back out to report some more. He pens just 100 words, then goes back to covering the story occupying the heart of Ottawa—the trucker protests.