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Pull Quotes was the Review of Journalism podcast for F22/W23. Hosts Silas Le Blanc, Tim Cooke and Tara De Boer explored emerging issues in journalism and talked to their colleagues about the behind-the-scenes work that went into this years’ issue.

Geoff Dembicki on cops infiltrating climate justice movements

In the fourth episode of this season’s Pull Quotes, investigative climate reporter Geoff Dembicki spoke with Gabe Oatley, the podcast’s editor and co-host, about his recent VICE story, How a married undercover cop having sex with activists killed a climate movement.

Gabe Oatley
March 14, 2022
2 minute read

Adam Feibel on building a career in music journalism, Billy Talent and why punk’s still cool

For this week’s episode, Pull Quotes’ Guest Podcast Producer, Annika Forman, sat down with music journalist Adam Feibel to learn more about his Exclaim! Magazine feature Billy Talent Are More Relevant Than Ever along with his path to music feature writing and a fun story of how he interviewed the band.

Annika Forman
March 1, 2022
2 minute read

Nicholas Hune-Brown on international students, vivid scenes and reporting from a distance

In season five, episode two, we take you behind the scenes of Nicholas Hune-Brown’s feature The Shadowy Business of International Education. In this episode, Hune-Brown talks to co-host Rahaf Farawi about what drew him to the story, how he gathered rich scene material over Zoom and how this became the longest story he’s ever worked on.

Rahaf Farawi
February 14, 2022
1 minute read

Richard Warnica on art fraud, fragments and anxiety

In the season opener of Pull Quotes, Toronto Star feature writer Richard Warnica joins Gabe Oatley, the podcast’s co-host, to discuss his recent feature Rothko at the Inauguration. This season’s podcast takes you behind the scenes of Canada’s top long-form stories. In this episode, Warnica talked about his half-decade long journey to write this story, his method for writing great scenes and vivid descriptions and how anxiety has affected his writing.

Gabe Oatley
February 1, 2022
1 minute read

Pull Quotes Season 4, Episode 6: End of a run

In the final episode of Season four, host Emma Jones talks to the [ ]RJ masthead to hear about their experiences producing a magazine during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emma Jones and Joseph Fish
May 13, 2021
4 minute read

Pull Quotes Season 4, Episode 5: Should Canadian crime reporters start thinking beyond what they can print, to what they should?

Professors Maggie Jones Patterson and Romayne Smith Fullerton, co-authors of Murder in our Midst: Comparing Crime Coverage Ethics in an Age of Globalized News, join us to discuss regional approaches to crime reporting, and how they’re changing in the age of mass communication. We also discuss the recent sentencing decision in the trial of Toronto van-attacker Alek Minassian, and why it’s making waves in the Canadian journalism community. “Just focusing on this man’s name, does not equip the citizenry to make decisions, and help influence the people they elect to create policy.” – Romayne Smith Fullerton.

Joseph Fish and Emma Jones
April 13, 2021
2 minute read

Pull Quotes Season 4, Episode 4: Photojournalists create a visual record of the human impact of industrial pollution

This episode we’re using our audio platform to discuss the power of photography in highlighting humanity’s role in the degradation of the natural world. Documentary photographer Ian Willms joins us to discuss a picture he took in 2019 in an indigenous community in northern Alberta called Fort Chipewyan. Ian took several trips to the area between 2010 and 2020 to document the environmental and human toll of oil sands pollution in the region. He provides insight into how he came to be in position to capture the photograph, and why it stands out among the thousands of images he’s captured during his career.

Joseph Fish and Emma Jones
March 23, 2021
3 minute read

Pull Quotes, Season 4, Episode 3: Balancing Motherhood and Journalism

Tracee Herbaugh, daughter of first female AP journalist to be killed on assignment Sharon Herbaugh, talks balancing a writing career with motherhood.

Emma Jones, Joseph Fish, and
March 9, 2021
3 minute read

Pull Quotes, Season 4, Episode 3: In conversation with Nora Loreto on how Long-Term Care Homes were affected by COVID

Host Emma Jones talks to Nora Loreto, activist, writer and podcaster, who has been compiling reports of COVID deaths in Canadian institutions

Emma Jones and Joseph Fish
February 23, 2021
3 minute read

Pull Quotes, Season 4, Episode 1: In conversation with Brian Daly, the Atlantic director of the Canadian Association of Black Journalists

“Seeing us as our skin colour first and who we are as people second–or not at all–is the root of the problem. It’s called racism.”

Emma Jones and Joseph Fish
February 9, 2021
2 minute read