Tag: Journalism
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Breaking the News Cycle: From Buzzkill Journalism to a World of Empathy and Genuine Joy
It’s not just your garden-variety grumps; sometimes it’s the folks we see on our screens every day, stirring the pot and spreading the gloom (I’m looking at you, Donald Trump, Piers Morgan, some very angry people on X, Mr. Burns, Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks, and the list could goes on and on).
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Beware of Darkness: The Challenge of Writing in English When It’s Not Your Mother Tongue
Tulum – For the last three years, I’ve been in and out of a very dark cloud that is called blues. My mother’s cancer, the pandemic, losing my closest uncle and three months later, losing my aunt and seeing my father as the only survivor of his immediate family. Death have been a constant presence…
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‘You Cannot Kill the Truth. You Cannot Kill What We Are Fighting For’ – Jean Leopold Dominique
On March 5th 1986, at the Toussaint Louverture Airport, nearly 60 000 people greeted Jean and Michèle. At first sight, you would have thought he was the biggest rock star of the planet! Michael Jackson was arriving to Haiti. Jean Dominique really was the Michael Jackson of Haitian journalism.
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Where In The World Is Linda McMahon?
With the atrocities everyone saw at the Capitol last Wednesday, I was expecting some kind of tweet from Linda addressing how hard democracy got hit, or how disappointed she was in seeing civilians act like a bunch of insane criminals at a place where she would have liked to go everyday had she been elected…
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Can we go back in time and be more like Edward R. Murrow?
MONTREAL – Good morning my fellow Chronicle army. Before starting this brand new day, I would like to say a few words to the members of the press, the members of our society. Ladies and gentlemen, can we be a little bit more compassionate and respectful with each other? Can we have some boundaries with…
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Is it a crime to be a journalist in 2018?
For a few months, this question has been haunting me in a way I couldn’t have imagined. Right now, in this world we are living in, is still normal that some governments or regimes consider journalism to be a crime?
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I got Toronto on my mind
Written by Sabine Demosthenes I’ve still got Toronto on my mind, even after a few days back to the city of a thousand church bells, Montreal. It wasn’t my first time in the Tdot, but it was my first time alone as an adult in the city. A few days disconnecting with my usual non-orthodox…
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Tom vs Time or Time vs Tom?
Written by Sabine Demosthenes I know, I know… Another article about the magnificent Tom Brady, written by another admirer. You may be right in a way, I have admired Tom Brady since he started, but I do not like/love/admire or any other adjective describing a lovey-dovey attitude toward his employer, The New England Patriots. I will, however,…
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Fantastic Mr. Clooney! Mr. Nick Clooney
I wanted to be as smart as Christiane Amanpour, as sassy and curious as Ann Curry and (when I was a little older) as perspicacious as Nick Clooney.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m a woman.
Ladies and Gentlemen, We are gathered here to witness…. …another act of misogyny in the universe of professional sports. Cam Newton was so damn stupid with his response to Jourdan Rodrigue’s question. For one day, he beat out Donald Trump for stupidest comment. Her question was really smart. It was about route running, which is the path a…