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Pull Quotes Podcast

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.
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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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We Are Not The Virus

Aliya Pabani and Allie Graham on how their four-part audio-doc counters the media narrative on unhoused people by centring the lived experience of Toronto’s park encampments’ residents
Nadia Stewart

Nadia Stewart is Creating Space for Black Journalists in Canada—Here’s How

“I always lean on the side of optimism.”
How J-School Failed Me

How Journalism School Failed Me

J-schools are inadequately preparing us for the future of journalism—here’s why.
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Facing Harassment In and Out of the Newsroom

How women journalists in Pakistan are fighting back—and the online spaces that are helping them do it.
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Path of Exile

Non-profits are urging Canada to facilitate refuge for journalists in danger, but can the industry help them get back to work?
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Anatomy of an Investigation

How did journalists working on the FinCEN Files used innovative techniques to trace financial crime globally?
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Signs of Trouble for Lifestyle Journalism

Layoffs and lack of equity amid a pandemic—how is lifestyle journalism surviving?