Newspapering : 50 Years of Reporting from Canada and Around the World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webster, Norman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian newspapers.

Journalism.

Journalism--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Newspapering

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Barlow Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

In this collection of articles, Norman Webster takes readers on a journey through his 50 years of newspapering--in Canada, China in the early 1970s, the UK of Maggie Thatcher, and around the world. Webster, a distinguished international journalist, worked at a time when you couldn't rely on Google for your basic facts. You had to go there, look, ask questions. It's old-style reporting from a journalist with a sharp eye for the absurd, as the title (from a reporting trip to Tibet) suggests. As a renowned editor, Webster writes about some of the big issues in Canada, such as the Quebec Neverendum, the sovereignty debate that consumed the province and the country for three decades. Unlike so many political players in the world today, he is thoughtful and measured in his analysis. His book is entertaining and inspiring for readers of politics, and for journalists looking for award-winning examples of international reporting and editorial columns.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. Home Base in the Townships

June 21, 2009. "A Time of Magic (Mostly)-50 Years of Newspapering: Working in a Big Daily's City Room Taught You How to Concentrate." Montreal Gazette

November 3, 1994. "Alumnus Remembers Gowns and Bombs." The Campus

January 11, 1992. "A Sage Townshipper: Wise and Witty Orin Gardner Was a Pillar for Friends, Family." Montreal Gazette

June 20, 1998. "The Joys of Being Anglophone in Quebec." Montreal Gazette

July 17, 1999. "A Marvellous, Well-Rooted Place: We All Should Have a Hatley in Our Lives." Montreal Gazette

2. China

April 3, 1982. "China Card at Work." Globe and Mail

September 25, 1999. "From Beijing to New York." Montreal Gazette

October 4, 2009. "China Takes Its Place: The Country Has Come a Long Way From Its Days as a Desperately Poor Nation Always on the Verge of Famine." Montreal Gazette

October 27, 1990. "Trudeau Opened Door to Peking: Hard to Remember Now How Isolated China Was." Montreal Gazette

January 15, 1971. "Mr. Canada, Meet Mr. Canada Around the World Postal Newspaper." Globe and Mail

1969-71. "Pages From a China Notebook." Globe and Mail

February 5, 1994. "Juicy Memories: An Innocuous Mango Brings Back Sweet Dreams of China." Montreal Gazette

July 4, 1981. "A Great Ghost Haunts China." Globe and Mail

April 22, 1971. "Life's Not So Bad in Peking." Globe and Mail

Fall 2008. "Ping-Pong Diplomacy." Maisonneuve

October 30, 1982. "The Fear of a Ripple." Globe and Mail

November 9, 1991. "Happy Warrior Returns Home." Montreal Gazette

January 12, 1976. "In New China, His Own Man." Globe and Mail

November 22, 1997. "Dam Shame: Three Gorges Project Will Flood One of the Prettiest Places on Earth." Montreal Gazette

December 27, 1997. "The View From Mao's Chair." Montreal Gazette.

November 5, 2006. "The Week in China That Changed the World." Montreal Gazette

September 27, 2009. "Sixty Years After His Victory, Mao's Shadow Looms

China's 'Liberation' Day Was Oct. 1, 1949." Montreal Gazette

January 5, 2011. "Back When Canada Punched Above Its Weight." Montreal Gazette

December 15, 2001. "China Changes, But It's Still a Place Where Camels Are Castrated and the Phlegm Flies." Montreal Gazette

June 14, 2009. "Bethune's Story Was Hard to Avoid in Mao's China

Praise for the Canadian Doctor Was Repeated Again and Again." Montreal Gazette

3. Queen's Park

Summer 2008. "Queen's Park Chronicles." Maisonneuve

September 30, 1974. "Both Smiles and Anxiety at Rural Fair." Globe and Mail

June 9, 1975. "Antic Hay." Globe and Mail

June 30, 1975. "Great Days, Great Men." Globe and Mail

January 10, 1976. "Stephen the Reasonable: A New Version of the Angry Young Man." Globe and Mail

February 16, 1976. "Those Anti-Social Smokers." Globe and Mail

June 4, 1976. "China, Ontario Contrasted." Globe and Mail

June 3, 2000. "Lewis Retains His Fire in the Belly." Montreal Gazette

January 27, 1977. "Disturbing Report on Farmland." Globe and Mail

May 18, 1977. "Essex Is Tough for All." Globe and Mail

June 7, 1977. "Ring-wise Davis Stays on Feet." Globe and Mail

September 13, 1975. "McKeough Races Full Throttle." Globe and Mail

January 20, 2008. "Garfield Mahood's Great Contribution to Public Health

Decline of Smoking in Last 30 Years Is a Significant Triumph." Montreal Gazette

May 24, 1977. "Tories Having Doubts?" Globe and Mail

September 6, 1977. "Tough Book to Stomach." Globe and Mail

4. Maggie and the Boys

May 22, 1979. "European Notebook: A Paint Job That Takes the Cake." Globe and Mail

August 9, 1979. "Commonwealth: That Strange Bird Is Still Flying." Globe and Mail.

June 7, 1980. "Nostalgia on the Quad." Globe and Mail

July 19, 1980. "Tea Time at the Palace." Globe and Mail

September 20, 1997. "Putting Diana-Hysteria in Perspective." Montreal Gazette

April 6, 2002. "Funeral Everyone Was Waiting For." Montreal Gazette

November 1, 2009. "Justice Delayed in the Chilling Story of the Yorkshire Ripper." Montreal Gazette

July 26, 1981. "A Dark Side, With Light." Globe and Mail

February 19, 1983. "Atoning at Oxford." Globe and Mail

October 10, 1980. "Armageddon for Plastic Gnomes: A Guide to the Ins and Outs of a Social Maze." Globe and Mail

January 1, 1983. "The Real Man of the Year." Globe and Mail

July 15, 2007. "Falklands War Was Nasty, Brutish, Short-and Significant: It Brought Down Argentina's Criminal Junta and Resurrected Maggie Thatcher's Career." Montreal Gazette

November 13, 1993. "No Rust

Thatcher in Full Form While Marching Across Morningside." Montreal Gazette

July 12, 1997. "From Golden Boy to Hollow Man." Montreal Gazette

July 20, 2003. "Not a People to Be Underestimated." Montreal Gazette

5. Ottawa

June 8, 2003. "Mike Pearson Deserved to Be No. 1." Montreal Gazette

December 1, 1976. "Heavy Stuff for Lunch." Globe and Mail

March 1, 1984. "The Trudeau Years." Globe and Mail

September 17, 2005. "Plain-Talking PM." Montreal Gazette

November 26, 2005. "Mulroney's Greatest Hits." Montreal Gazette

September 11, 1999. "Stars Shine at Rideau Hall." Montreal Gazette

November 23, 2003. "Exit the Big Guy: Jean Chrétien Showed Us Anyone Can Become Prime Minister." Montreal Gazette

September 14, 2008. "Of Poop and Veggies

Why Can't Harper and Dion Be Themselves." Montreal Gazette

6. Sports

November 1, 1974. "Bad, Good Hockey Trends." Globe and Mail

June 15, 2003. "F1 Needs Another Gilles Villeneuve." Montreal Gazette.

July 8, 2000. "Life at Centre Court: The Two Weeks of Wimbledon Tennis Is One of the World's Class Acts." Montreal Gazette

January 26, 1980. "Briton Is Grim Hunter: Year-Round Grind Keeps Olympics Aflame in Daley Thompson's Mind." Globe and Mail

August 2, 1980. "Funless to the Core." Globe and Mail

March 6, 1993. "Say It Ain't So

Athlete Ben Johnson Is Far From Alone in Using Drugs." Montreal Gazette

February 26, 2000. "Hockey Reveals a Lot About Ourselves." Montreal Gazette / May 1, 1993. "He Shoots! This Game Puts the Lie to Notion Canucks Aren't Tough." Montreal Gazette

7. Neverendum

Spring 2008. "Summer of '65." Maisonneuve

July 29, 2007. "Forty Years Later, de Gaulle's Words Still Make the Blood Boil: Jean Drapeau Had a Lot to Say on the Speech-Too Much for the Gazette and La Presse." Montreal Gazette

September 9, 1976. "Boo Birds Revealed Tiny Minds." Globe and Mail

January 20, 1990. "Wells's Principles Spell Big Trouble for Meech Lake: Newfoundland Premier Shows No Sign of Understanding Quebec." Montreal Gazette

April 3, 1999. "Ode to the Rock." Montreal Gazette

October 11, 2003. "P.E.I. Is a Lot More Than Scenery, Lobsters and Anne." Montreal Gazette

September 18, 1993. "The Player: Thankfully, Bourassa Always Tried to Keep the Game Going." Montreal Gazette

May 16, 1992. "Memories: Can Montreal Recapture What Made It Special?" Montreal Gazette

December 10, 1994. "Bouchard's Illness Has Brought out the Best and the Worst." Montreal Gazette

November 1, 1995. "The Good News: We Dodged Financial Disaster and We Still Have a Country." Montreal Gazette

September 27, 1997. "Bouchard's Eloquence Matched by Few." Montreal Gazette.

June 1, 2008. "Referendum Fraud One of Greatest Scandals in Our Political History: None of the Institutions We Depend on for Justice Seemed to Give a Damn." Montreal Gazette

March 11, 1996. "If Quebec Is Divisible, so Is Federalism." Maclean's

October 5, 1996. "Many Wish Robert Bourassa Were Still in Power." Montreal Gazette

November 21, 1998. "Goofballs in the Dream Palace." Montreal Gazette

May 26, 2001. "Acadian Culture Thriving." Montreal Gazette

8. Dispatches

June 9, 1979. "Vatican's Man in a Hurry." Globe and Mail

June 12, 1979. "A Classic Bind: Pope Was Critic Poland Couldn't Bar." Globe and Mail

June 5, 2004. "Visiting the Factory of Death.' Montreal Gazette

June 29, 2008. "Hatred Is Never Far Below the Surface

Serbia Remains a Captive of Its History, and It Seems Violence Could Erupt Again at Any Time." Montreal Gazette

June 3, 2007. "Mustapha Kemal Ataturk: Still Worshipped After All These Years." Montreal Gazette

January 16, 1999. "Passions Run Deep in Turkey." Montreal Gazette

November 22, 1980. "High on Khat." Globe and Mail

December 6, 1980. "The Cult of Sultan." Globe and Mail

November 16, 1996. "Jordan's Hussein: A Lucky, Ruthless, Diplomatic Little King." Montreal Gazette

October 10, 1981. "The Legacy of Sadat." Globe and Mail

November 6, 1982. "The Hands on the Levers of Power Are Still Chinese: Two Faces of Tibet." Globe and Mail

November 13, 1982. "Tibetans Don't Fade." Globe and Mail

April 24, 2004. "A Battle of Patience." Montreal Gazette

April 6, 2008. "Beijing Orders: No More Reincarnations Until Further Notice." Montreal Gazette

July 12, 2009. "Riot Control

China Is Very Sensitive About the Uighur Uprising in the Distant Province of Xinjiang." Montreal Gazette.

June 28, 1997. "Hong Kong Handover: No One Knows How Well Beijing Will Respect the Rule of Law That Underlies the Territory's Prosperity." Montreal Gazette.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-988025-67-2

OCLC:

1251447438