Toronto Star

Early reporting on AIDS offers lessons for covering future health crises, new study suggests

By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter April 13, 2018 Gay men living with HIV/AIDS were underrepresented and often portrayed in a negative light by Toronto mainstream newspapers covering the early years of the health crisis, according to a new study. The research paper by Ryerson University master of journalism student Michael D’Alimonte also suggests that the Toronto Star and the Globe…

Upcoming workshop will help journalists deal with online hate

Victims of natural disasters must be dealt with respectfully: NYT Canada bureau chief

Dec. 5, 2017 By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter Reporters who fly in to cover natural disasters must report on people suffering the consequences with respect and compassion, says journalist Catherine Porter, who arrived in Haiti soon after the 2010 earthquake to cover the story for the Toronto Star. Porter was one of several speakers at a recent Ryerson Review of…

Reporter’s new book examines seven deaths of Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay

By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga went to Thunder Bay, Ont. to write about why Indigenous people don’t vote in federal elections, but came back committed to investigating the deaths of seven Indigenous high school students and the education system that failed them. Talaga, a two-time recipient of the Project of the Year National Newspaper Award,…

Going undercover justified by compelling public interest: Star investigative reporter

By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter Undercover work by journalists is justified only if there’s a compelling public interest and no other way to get the story, says the Toronto Star reporter who recently posed as a temporary worker at a large industrial bakery. Sara Mojtehedzadeh, who covers labour, precarious work and poverty issues for the Star, said it was difficult…