Once a week, we gather stories about the media business, journalism, writing, publishing, and freelancing—with a Canadian focus—and share them in Off the Wire. Who needs a water cooler?
Finding Karla’s Paula Todd talks ebooks and the future of journalism: When Paula Todd discovered rumours online that convicted killer Karla Homolka was living in Guadeloupe and was teaching young children, she was compelled to act. Todd, a freelance journalist and professor of journalism at Seneca at York, felt she had a professional obligation to try and find out if those rumours were true: both for ethical reasons as well as to bring hard facts into the still-fierce debate surrounding Homolka’s journey through the Canadian judicial system…
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