Jane Gerster
@Jane_Gerster
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Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2009
The mystique that has helped cement the RCMP as a national symbol is also what renders it particularly, stubbornly difficult to reform—@Jane_Gerster
https://t.co/K2vUy7OQz5
thewalrus.ca
The mystique that has helped cement the RCMP as a national symbol is also what renders it particularly, stubbornly difficult to reform
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"...the cult of journalistic celebrity is troubling for many reasons, not least that it can reserve outsize attention and authority to reporters who don’t always have a compelling claim to it." https://t.co/sUKGJU3SWY via @CJR
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"As long as the person is alive, the book is not finished. The voice can still resound; they can still have new ideas. My books are always rewritten by life."
lareviewofbooks.org
José Vergara and his students ask Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich about how war has shaped her work, as well as about her writing process and Chornobyl’s legacy.
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Dr. Kirshenbaum said he worried about any effort to reduce the course’s demands, noting most students want to be doctors. “Unless you appreciate these transformations at the molecular level. I don’t think you can be a good physician, and I don’t want you treating patients.”
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“I have noticed that many of the students who consistently complained about the class did not use the resources we afforded to them,” wrote Mr. Benslimane, now a Ph.D. student at Harvard.
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"After several years of Covid learning loss, the students not only didn’t study, they didn’t seem to know how to study, Dr. Jones said." https://t.co/DQTznOyH7N via @nytimes
nytimes.com
Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him.
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JUST IN Saskatchewan Coroner’s Service and RCMP have just released the names of the people killed on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon on Sunday morning. They will not be identifying the victims.
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If you didn’t believe it, but you repeated it anyway — or palled around with those who did — what horror wouldn’t you espouse? Would any lies be too terrible to tell?
bostonglobe.com
When 26 people were murdered at the school in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, the ugliness of social media collided with parents’ grief in a way the world had never seen.
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"Journalists simply can’t allow themselves to be megaphones or stenographers. They have to be dedicated truth-tellers, using clear language, plenty of context and thoughtful framing to get that truth across."
washingtonpost.com
Before signing off, Margaret Sullivan offers advice to her fellow journalists on how to cover a perilous election.
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“The city can lull you into a dream, but it is also a nightmare because the war is right there." https://t.co/9xDwTJnnV5
#longreads
nytimes.com
President Vladimir V. Putin knows that Ukraine’s fate, its access to the sea and its grain exports hinge on Odesa. Without it, the country shrivels to a landlocked rump state.
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"Textbook local journalism. Reporters methodically tracked down the facts while tuning out the national noise."
washingtonpost.com
The Indianapolis Star and the Columbus Dispatch broke the story of a 10-year-old girl who had to leave Ohio to get an abortion after Roe v. Wade fell.
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"Nothing matters more than the act of showing up, and the relationship that develops outside of language."
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"We need dignity. This is... not something most reporters think about, in my experience. Which is odd, because it is integral to understanding why people do what they do."
washingtonpost.com
Today’s news, even high-quality print news, is not designed for humans. How do we fix it?
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If so many of us feel poisoned by our products, might there be something wrong with them? If the goal of journalism is to inform people, where is the evidence it is working? https://t.co/s0fDGAG5Uw via @washingtonpost
washingtonpost.com
Today’s news, even high-quality print news, is not designed for humans. How do we fix it?
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