Now on J-Source: On covering Russell Williams (special edition)
TORONTO, Oct. 27 /CNW/ -
FIELD NOTES
One reporter's trial
A cautionary tale from CBC Radio reporter Dave Seglins on the consequences of a sleepless week covering the sentencing of Russell Williams.
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COVERING VIOLENCE AND TRAUMA
When j-students cover a killer
Two second-year Loyalist College j-students, Trish Allison and Nicole Kleinsteuber, on what they learned from covering the sentencing of admitted rapist and murderer Russell Williams. Lesson one: dealing with guilt.
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COVERING VIOLENCE AND TRAUMA
How to live-report depravity and move on with your life
Live coverage of the Russell Williams' case had reporters making on-the-fly editorial and ethical decisions while facing a horrific barrage of images and information. Now that the sentencing is over, six reporters tell us how they're coping.
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INNOVATION
Tech on trial
As one of the decade's most horrifying stories unfolded in a Belleville courtroom, newsrooms experimented with new ways of reporting, Rob Washburn writes. Here's how journalists tackled the story, in real time.
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The cartoon mayor
Not since Mulroney's chin has a Canadian public figure excited editorial cartoonists as much as Toronto's new mayor-elect Rob Ford. Ford is easily cartoonable, as the abundance of editorial illustrations have already shown: take the Torontoist's Rob Ford Gaffe-O-Meter, or anything by Brett Lamb.
The antics of all the candidates even inspired National Post illustrator Steve Murray to run for office, albeit several days too late to qualify (watch his gracious concession speech). Since he's already drawn many of the candidates, J-Source asked him what excites him about drawing Ford as mayor. "Cartoonists generally love shortcuts," Murray said. "A Mulroney chin, a Reagan hairdo, these things are gold for quick identification. Ford has kind of a, um, jolly ... rubenesque ... kind of, uh, pleasantly round ... He's fat, okay? He's fat and that's easy to draw. I don't want to lose my job, but really, if my job is to draw a fat guy, I'm going to make him fat. Miller had big hair, a bit of a death-face and bad teeth, so that's what you play up. Ford is plump, reddish, with weird brow folds and strange little teeth. It's not a political statement to draw him that way, it's a cartoonist's statement. If Smitherman won I would have gladly drawn that weird bullet-head (like one of those Mario video game bullets) with those little beady eyes that have forgotten how to smile."
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Ford "fat" article: So this is the new Globe?
Another view of the new Globe
"The photo of Russell Williams on the front of the Star is raw, disturbing, and grotesque. But newspapers and websites publish photos far more graphic and violent every day without a second thought. This picture is different because it is so honest, We should not shield the public from the evil that is Russell Williams because it makes somebody uncomfortable."
Reader Comment: Mike Beaudin
Post: Has coverage of Col. Williams gone too far? Or not far enough?
"Claude, thank you for intelligently telling it like it is during this age of digitally-fuelled, superficial reportage. When will journalists collectively take risks to stray beyond the "standard text" so that the audience truly gets all sides? Sadly, it won't happen as journalists with jobs in this employment climate won't rock the unstable media boat. BTW, we can add the Gulf Coast to that list of now-ignored hot spots."
Reader Comment: Shannon Moneo
Post: Journalists in Chile trapped by human interest angle
"I very much appreciate and respect your openness and honesty Dave. It is very hard to publicly admit becoming unravelled. You have, no doubt, helped many by sharing your experience."
Reader Comment: Kerry McKee
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November 16, 6:30 p.m.
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