Pull Quotes Podcast

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.

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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.

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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.

Pull Quotes: The Review of Journalism Podcast

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.