In March, after 20 years of being wrongly convicted of second-degree murder, Glen Assoun was exonerated—and new documents fought to be unsealed by local journalists tell us who is responsible for that shoddy conviction. What happened before then, and where are we now? Fast forward to March of 2019 when the federal government overturns Assoun’s […]
Journalists
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Best Newspaper Writer
“It’s been a crazy year,” says the ever-popular arts and entertainment reporter for the Chronicle-Herald. He rattles off a list of festivals and shows he enjoyed—In The Dead of Winter, Stanfest (“to see Sarah Harmer come out of hibernation”)—movies—Inglourious Basterds, District 9 (“It was a good year for genre movies”)—and indie releases—York Redoubt, The Got […]
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Foul language
Veteran Israeli journalist Amira Hass received a lifetime achievement award last week in New York for her unrelenting coverage of the oppression of Palestinians in Israel’s occupied territories. During her acceptance speech to the International Women’s Media Foundation, Hass confessed that she didn’t really have a lifetime of “achievement,” only a long record of failure. […]