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Celebrity “Click Bait” vs Journalism

An opinion poll suggests a large majority of Canadians blame sensationalized celebrity reports on media outlets that run them “to get as many people as possible to go to their digital media site to earn ad revenue,” said a report today by polling firm Ipsos Reid. Some 68 per cent blame infotainment on media, while the remainder say the “news” is driven by celebrities and their publicists. The company did the poll on behalf of the Canadian Journalism Foundation. It interviewed 1,108 Canadians from Ipsos’ Canadian online panel online, between November 11th to 16th. The company said the poll is

Morality and killing seals

Canada’s east-coast seal hunting industry both won and lost Monday, in a ruling by the World Trade Organization. The WTO ruled mostly in favour of Europe in its dispute with Canada, upholding Europe’s ban on imported products of Canada’s east coast seal hunt on the basis of “EU public moral concerns on seal welfare,” while agreeing with the technical details of Canada’s trade complaint. The controversial annual hunt takes place on the ice off Newfoundland, where hunters kill newborn seals, mostly for their fur. Unlike animal products produced behind the walls of privately-owned fur and agriculture businesses, the full gory

Charles Mandel

F&O is happy to welcome aboard Canadian journalist Charles Mandel as our newest regular contributor. Mandel, who has worked throughout the continent, is now based on the east coast in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He will contribute book reviews, “Think” features and Dispatches reporting, and arts writing to Facts and Opinions. You can read his bio here, and see his work in Ex Libris, Dispatches and F&O’s Loose Leaf column.  

Locke: a malaria moon

MSF doctors work on a Somali refugee baby with cholera in a camp on the Kenya - Somalia border. Photo by Greg Locke © 1996
MSF doctors work on a Somali refugee baby with cholera in a camp on the Kenya - Somalia border. Photo by Greg Locke © 1996

For nearly a decade Greg Locke traveled through rural east and central Africa, from his home base in Nairobi to destinations including the some of the world’s largest refugee camps in Dadaab South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Lake Kivu, the eastern Congo and Burundi. Locke, F&O managing partner – visual, has produced a gallery exhibit of some of the notes and photographic records of the conflict, humanitarian crisis and daily life he captured on news assignments and for a book, with Elliot Layton, about Médecins Sans Frontières. Log in to see Under a malaria moon, available to F&O subscribers or for a

Under a malaria moon

MSF doctors work on a Somali refugee baby with cholera in a camp on the Kenya - Somalia border. Photo by Greg Locke © 1996
MSF doctors work on a Somali refugee baby with cholera in a camp on the Kenya - Somalia border. Photo by Greg Locke © 1996

By GREG LOCKE These photos and rough notes were made in central and east Africa, where I spent nearly a decade covering news assignments and co-producing a book about Médecins Sans Frontières with Elliot Layton. My journeys,  from 1996 to 2005,  followed an arc through rural east and central Africa, from the Dadaab refugee camps on the Kenya – Somalia border, through South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda to Lake Kivu in the Great Lakes region of the eastern Congo and Burundi. Many days were spent transiting in and out of my home base in Nairobi.  These photos of conflict, humanitarian crisis and daily life are

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