A selection of writing and discussion around news reporting and true crime
To watch:
The 2020 James Minifie Lecture: Give Me Rewrite: Drafting a New Future for Journalism https://fb.watch/c9P1KAkUWJ/
The Lougheed Lecture: The Ethics of Reporting on Crime and Human Suffering
To listen to:
- A discussion about crime reporting with Omar Mouallem on the Canadaland Podcast. Listen here
A discussion about true crime on the Edmonton Public Library podcast, Overdue Finds. Listen here - A discussion about true crime with Jonathon Small on the Write About Now Podcast
To Read:
- The role of the media in a time of crisis. An excerpted version of The Minifie Lecture in The Walrus
- Crime reporting is popular, but is it ethical? Read an excerpted version of The Lougheed Lecture in The Globe and Mail
- An Edmonton Journal story on publishing Fear On The Family Farm as a book
- A story about when true crime comes close to home, The Day I Met a Serial Killer
- On being a crime reporter, in Sharp Magazine