Journalism & Media
People
Not your typical retirement reporter
Meera Raman, BA’21, might not be who you had pictured in your mind as The Globe and Mail’s retirement and personal finances reporter. She is still in her twenties, for one thing. She prides herself on taking a non-stodgy approach to subject matter that affects practically everyone.
People
“The best time of the year”
David Amber, BA’93, has covered the Olympics, the NBA Finals, and the World Series, but the Hockey Night in Canada host says there is no sports event that quite matches the intensity of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. “It’s amazing to watch the sacrifices the players will make this time of year.”
People
No fan of ‘eat-your-spinach’ journalism
USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan, BA’87, says that fact-based journalism is her newspaper’s ‘north star,’ and her reporters aren’t afraid of asking tough questions. But the publication also knows a thing or two about having fun.
On Campus
Combatting quackery
Dedicated to promoting science literacy and to pushing back against misinformation, McGill’s Office for Science and Society (OSS) regularly reaches large audiences through a variety of means (podcasts, newspaper columns, YouTube, online courses) to further its mission of “separating sense from nonsense.”
People
The spotlight is on Sachedina
When Omar Sachedina, BA’04, became the new chief news anchor and senior editor for CTV National News, he took on one of the most prominent roles in Canadian journalism. Under the best of circumstances, it would be a challenging job – and the circumstances were far from ideal.
People
Championing the deep dive of investigative journalism
Allya Davidson, BA'09, has spent her career working on impactful documentaries for broadcasters like PBS, CTV and CBC.
Culture
A connoisseur of crime narratives
As a grad student, Sarah Weinman, BSc’00, observed autopsies and visited crime scenes. Today, the award-winning writer/editor is a leading authority on the crime fiction and true crime genres, and the crime columnist for The New York Times Book Review.
Culture
The surprising rise of Canadaland
How Canadaland founder Jesse Brown, BA’00, built a thriving podcast network that breaks big news stories, attracts 100,000 listeners each week and does something that few media organizations in Canada have managed to do – it makes a profit.
Health
McGill experts tackle myriad COVID-19 issues in the media
Joe Schwarcz, the director of McGill's Office for Science and Society, is one of the many McGill experts that journalists have sought out for their thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Campus
100 years of the McGill News
Over the course of two world wars, a Cold War, a space race, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the internet and 11 McGill principals, the McGill News has been turning up in the mail boxes (and now the inboxes) of McGill graduates for a century.
People
Clean capitalism’s corporate crusader
Near the peak of the dot-com boom, and not long after he graduated from McGill, Toby Heaps wanted to write about socially responsible business.
Society
Nothing fake about it
A turbulent White House. An antagonistic president. An ongoing investigation into Russia’s attempts to influence the2016 election. And, of course, those never-ending incendiary tweets. Meet theMcGill alumni in hot pursuit of some of the most important stories coming outof Washington.