
SHORT CUTS #58 - Poondits
Music critic Chandler Levack co-hosts. Journalists from The Rebel were kicked out of the Alberta legislature.The Grammys are over and everyone wants you to know which Canadians won. Statistics say wa...
18 Feb 201628min

Ep.121 - Glen McGregor
Glen McGregor just left the Ottawa Citizen (along with 14 others) after breaking many major political stories of the last few years. So what's next for him, for the Citizen, and for print journalism i...
14 Feb 201639min

SHORT CUTS #57 - #Ghomeshi: The Eggs Awaken
Jen Gerson of the National Post co-hosts.Jen and Jesse talk about why Canadian media has so many boots on the ground to report on U.S. politics. Why we can't leave American coverage to Americans?As th...
11 Feb 201631min

Ep.120 - Indigenous Media Roundtable
Most Canadians don't hear about the stories Indigenous peoples tell within their communities. Mainstream media only covers the most tragic events affecting Indigenous communities — if it chooses to co...
8 Feb 201641min

SHORT CUTS #56 - Notes on the Ghomeshi Trial
NOT SORRY writer Vicky Mochama co-hosts. Vicky and Jesse talk about the reporting in the first week of Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial. Journalists fail to understand Vicky's satire. Jesse recoun...
4 Feb 201630min

Ep.119 - More Trouble at The Walrus
When Ken Alexander co-founded the Walrus in 2003, he wanted it to be a left-leaning literary magazine that also functioned as an educational charity. Now he says The Walrus has lost its way, strayed f...
31 Jan 201636min

SHORT CUTS #55 - Gregory Alan Elliott and the Future of Being Awful Online
BuzzFeed’s Scaachi Koul returns to yell at Jesse. Today's topics: Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey and Torstar Chair John Honderich use their platforms to insult each other. Toronto police officer James Fo...
27 Jan 201632min

Ep.118 - The Collapse of Postmedia
Last week, Postmedia laid off 90 journalists from newsrooms across Canada, months after absorbing the Sun newspaper chain. What if a slow, painful death was the plan all along? The National Observer's...
25 Jan 201633min



















