EP 251: Full Press on How 'Mass Graves' Became Canada's Biggest Journalism Failure

About this episode

This episode discusses the journalistic failure surrounding the unmarked graves story in Canada as acknowledged by The Globe and Mail.

The big news in Canada this week has been The Globe and Mail editorial board’s admission that the industry and the paper bungled the unmarked graves story from 2021 — that this in fact constituted a journalistic failure. In light of this, we are bringing you an episode of Tara's media criticism podcast with The Hub, Full Press, from last week, which took stock of how we in the Canadian media got this story so wrong. This is an especially important conversation, now that the Senate human ...

People in this episode

Host: Tara Henley

Topics covered

• journalism failure
• media criticism
• unmarked graves
• Canada
• The Globe and Mail
• editorial board

Keywords

• Canada
• journalism
• media
• unmarked graves
• The Globe and Mail
• Tara Henley
• Full Press

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Globe and Mail, The Hub

Places: Canada, Senate

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