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- Ep. 207 - Village Of The Sprawling Phoenix: New Models For Local News
Monday, November 13th 2017
Is local media doomed? We speak to three entrepreneurs who are making a go of it with three very different models.
Dave Bidini publishes the West End Phoenix, a recently-launched, print-only monthly newspaper that covers west Toronto.
Jeff Elgie is the CEO of Village Media, a digital-only company that provides hyper-local news to nine small communities, mostly in Ontario.
Jeremy Klaszus is the founder and editor of The Sprawl, a Calgary news site that practices "pop-up journalism."
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- SHORT CUTS #141 - Team Kill Rich People
Thursday, November 9th 2017
CBC's flagship TV newscast The National is revamped with a four-host format and released into the world.
The Paradise Papers reveal what the Toronto Star calls a "worldwide shadow economy worth trillions of dollars." But the Financial Post's Terence Corcoran thinks the whole thing is just "another cheap shot at the wealthy." Find extensive reporting on the leak at The Star and the CBC.
A white photographer at a concert refuses to listen to Polaris Prize winner Lido Pimentia's calls to make space for brown girls. Some crucial details are missing from the initial reporting.
Freelance reporter Sarah Hagi co-hosts.
Sarah's Twitter: @geekylonglegs
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- Ep. 206 - Jeremy Scahill: Mistrust First, Then Verify
Monday, November 6th 2017
“Objectivity for the sake of objectivity often means make sure that the powerful always get their say. And sometimes Caesar shouldn’t have his say. Sometimes the truth is just true.”
As a foreign war correspondent, Jeremy Scahill revealed secret military campaigns in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia that resulted in congressional investigations. His books Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield were widely celebrated and he could have gotten a high-profile job in mainstream media. But instead, he became a founding editor of The Intercept, a news outlet dedicated to "fearless, adversarial journalism." He hosts their podcast, Intercepted.
Jeremy Scahill talks about excoriating mainstream networks on their own platforms, who Canada is killing overseas and why he hopes the media is learning lessons right now that they will carry beyond Trump.
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- SHORT CUTS #140 - Weekend With Bernie
Thursday, November 2nd 2017
A series of media scoops have shown that some politicians are actually rich people who want to keep their money.
Bernie Sanders comes to Canada to tell us about our healthcare system.
The government has been debating the so-called Ghomeshi rules, new legislation that would change how sexual assault cases are dealt with in court.
BuzzFeed News Washington correspondent Paul McLeod co-hosts.
Paul's Twitter: @pdmcleod
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- Ep. 205 - Out Of My Depth With Adam Gopnik
Monday, October 30th 2017
Adam Gopnik lived out a certain Canadian fantasy. He left the country and became a prominent New York intellectual. He writes about the move in his new book, At the Stranger's Gate.
Gopnik is now a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes about Canada — like in this profile of Michael Ignatieff or the recent piece, "We Could Have Been Canada."
He talks about how New York has changed, whether it still has anything to offer to dreamy exiles, and the bright side of Canada being run by a small pool of political elites. Jesse tries to keep up.
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