No one twigged that whenever a member of the Harrison family died, it was always just before an important hearing in a bitter child custody battle.
Toronto Star
Posted inBlog Post, Media, Unapologetic Women
Why Can’t Female Reporters Stay in the Picture?
Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
A Bakery Death Reveals the Vulnerable Lives of Temporary Workers
A reporter goes undercover in a Canadian factory to document the vulnerable people in the temporary workforce.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
We Are More Dangerous to Sharks Than They Are to Us
In the Toronto Star, Sandro Contenta travels to the Bahamas to attend “SharkSchool” where a man named Erich Ritter teaches a one-week course on how to swim safely with sharks. Over the course of his reporting, Contenta learns that 63 people have been killed by sharks in the past decade, while scientists have estimated that […]