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Schooling Shawn Cleary on journalism education

Journalism is a generalist’s game. If you have curiosity, a determination to discover the facts, even the ones that don’t match your pre-conceived notions, and a passion for telling stories, there are — and should always be — many ways to learn journalism’s specific, ever evolving skills as well as its ethics and standards. It isn’t about where you learned, but how well you learned.

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My Examiner column last week seemed to set off a modest Twitter tempest, mostly because its subject, Coun. Shawn Cleary, chose to respond to what I wrote and didn’t write (even when he didn’t seem to realize I’d written it); and then to respond in scattershot kind to various readers and constituents, who had taken umbrage at...

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The Halifax Examiner is four years (and one day) old

Morning File, Tuesday, June 19, 2018

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News 1. The Halifax Examiner is four years (and one day) old I missed it yesterday, but Monday was the fourth anniversary of the Halifax Examiner. I announced the Examiner with a promotional video that in retrospect was way too much about me: Wow, I sure look young there. But I don’t want this operation […]

Side guards on trucks will save lives, but the trucking industry is hiring pricey lawyers to oppose them

Morning File, Wednesday, May 23, 2018

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News 1. Side guards On Monday, November 17, 2008, 27-year-old Jaclyn Hennessey left the Tim Horton’s on Barrington Street (now a Starbucks) and was walking quickly southward, across Sackville Street, trying to beat the changing light. Just then, a dump truck driver was turning right from Barrington Street onto Sackville Street, apparently also trying to […]

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