Business

I’ve argued for years that journalists need to be involved in their communities, and that worries about conflict of interest are only what you make them. Last Friday, [Continue]

Journalists live for a scoop. Beyond that, they’ll settle for a good story. Truth is, in this technological age, a scoop lasts literally for about five minutes. [Continue]

If there was a lesson to be learned from this Christmas season, it’s that a daily newspaper should not wait four days between publications. I enjoyed the extended [Continue]

If Barack Obama did it? Peter Milobar did it, so did Terry Lake. Stephen Harper is a master at it. If they can do it, can I? Well, yes we can. When he was running for [Continue]

Sometimes it’s good to remind yourself why you do things the way you do them. For many years now, I’ve had a policy of not publishing details about suicides. Not [Continue]

Election  nights, I usually spend some time guesting with one of the electronic media, then visiting a couple of campaign offices before sashaying into the office to fire [Continue]

I’ve never been big on funeral coverage. It seems like an intrusion to me. When the departed has been a prominent part of the community, it’s difficult not to [Continue]

Well, that was quite a weekend. The B.C. Yukon Community Newspapers Association held its annual Ma Murray Awards gala at the River Rock in Richmond on the weekend, and it was [Continue]

“I loved it,” said one caller. “You had me going until I got to the part about Pat Wallace piloting the plane,” said another. “Best one [Continue]

I was shocked, and very  much saddened, to sit down at my email this morning and read a message that Vancouver lawyer Barry Gibson died of a heart attack yesterday. He was [Continue]

We had a group of school kids in for a tour today, a not unusual occurrence at a newspaper. One of the questions they often ask is, “How do you get the news?” We [Continue]

Earlier this week I was out at George Hilliard school as a “celebrity” reader along with the likes of Coun. John O’Fee, Terry Sullivan, Ken Christian, Mike [Continue]

Sometimes we are accused, as all media are, of favouring one political candidate over another in the way we write a story or headline, or take a picture. The fact is, we try [Continue]

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 9:06 a.m. Settle in at the desk with first coffee of the day. Handle a few phone calls and emails. Check over some letters to the editor for tomorrow, [Continue]