Articles in Media


October 2009

The Most Hated Name in News

Can Al Jazeera English cure what ails North American journalism?


May 2008

In The Tank

How think tanks are muddling our democracy


September 2007

Apocalypse Soon

The future of reading


May 2007

The Last Laugh

Why Canadian satire can’t measure up to Stewart and Colbert


February 2007

Good To Go

A military-run course designed to prepare reporters for combat raises some thorny questions about journalistic ethics


January 2007

Hear No Evil, Write No Lies

Maher Arar was portrayed as a sly fox, a predator working with al-Qaeda. He turned out to be a hare, an innocent family man.


November 2004

Sounds of Motown

Thirty years ago in Windsor, cklw, one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll stations ever, lost an angry battle with the newly created CRTC who demanded more Canadian content.


October 2004

Not the Six-O’clock News

In post-Communist Albania, teen reporters are redefining broadcast journalism

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Fat of the Land
Fat of the Land
by Brian Payton | MARCH 2008
How trans fats endanger wild elephants in Borneo

Suburbia’s Last Stand
Suburbia’s Last Stand
by Larry Frolick | NOVEMBER 2005
Ontario wants to force its car-dependent masses into denser neighbourhoods