Fired
Summer 2002
Table of contents
FEATURES
BEING A MEDIA MOGUL
CanWest Global executives should take Chris Dornan’s quiz.
KEEPING SECRETS
America’s War On Terrorism has stemmed the flow of government information.But that hasn’t
stopped some of the country’s top investigative journalists from trying to do their jobs.
Chris Taylor
NOW READ THIS!
U.S.Attorney General, John Ashcroft, circulates a memo that gives government officials
at the federal and state level the green light to withhold information.
PROFILE
The demise of Jan Wong’s Lunch With column reminded
Sara Jewell of an encounter she once had with the Globe
and Mail scribe.
CAJ AWARD WINNERS
Winners
in the Open Newspaper/Wire Service and Overall category
“The Criminalization of Dissent,” Southam News and The Ottawa
Citizen Jim Bronskill and David Pugliese
Winners
in the Magazine category
“Making Crime Pay,” National Jordan Furlong and Patti Ryan
Winner
in the Regional Television category
“Excessive force,” CBC News, Canada Now,Vancouver Natalie Clancy
and Gary Symons.
Winner
in the Open Television (less than five minutes)category
“Mad
Cow Implications,” CBC News, The National Kelly Crowe
Winners
in the CCN Newswire/ CAJ Computer-Assisted Reporting category
“Lament for a Downtown,” The Hamilton Spectator Fred Vallance-Jones,
Rick Hughes and Cheryl Stepan
Winners
in the Radio category “Deadly Duties: Canadian Firefighters
and the risk of cancer,” CBC Radio Reporter: David McLauchlin
Producer: Sandra Bartlett
Winner
in the Photojournalism category,
Canadian Press Andrew Vaughan 22
The
Mitchener Award Winner of 2001 “RIM Park’s 30-Year Financing
Deal,” The Record in Kitchener-Waterloo Kevin Crowley
DEPARTMENTS
First
Word
CanWest Global underestimated the media storm when it fired Ottawa Citizen publisher
Russell Mills.
By David McKie
Journalism
Net
The web is home to many kinds of documents
By Julian Sher
Point
of View:
When CanWest Global fired publisher Russell Mills, the company picked a fight with
free-speech advocates from all walks of life.
By Joel Ruimy
Computer-Assisted Reporting:
StatsCan’s policies on data are killing many good stories..
By David Akin
Books
Briefly
The sensibilities of turn-of-the-century muckrakers are alive to-day.
By Gillian Steward
Access to information:
Journalists in Nova Scotia pay the highest fees in the country for access to public information.
By Dean Jobb
