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Inside Canadian newsrooms’ triumphs — and regrets — while covering the 9/11 attacks
Journalists said the 44 hours of CBC coverage and The Canadian Press’s fast reporting were imperfect but shaped how Canadians understood the attacks.
- Twenty-Five years after the 9/11 attacks, prominent Canadian journalists are reflecting on the triumphs and challenges of covering the events that reshaped global security and how newsroom decisions influenced public understanding.
- Canadian newsrooms faced immediate pressure as World Trade Center towers fell; The Canadian Press editor-in-chief Scott White described it as a 'holy s---' moment while Peter Mansbridge began Forty-four hours of continuous CBC coverage.
- Amid rampant rumors, reporters struggled with verification; White remains haunted by an inaccurate border-closure report, while Mansbridge discovered a retired pilot's aviation background was fabricated despite his accurate technical commentary.
- At Ground Zero, Canadian Press photojournalist Andrew Vaughan captured an iconic image of Rachel Uchitel pleading for information about her fiancé on the 104th floor; Toronto Star reporter Michelle Shephard said 'it was an entire city that was traumatized.'
- Shephard, who authored 'Decade of Fear' about post-9/11 national security, said she remains proud of her coverage despite imperfections, emphasizing that journalists' work remains a vital record of how the world would never be the same.
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Inside Canadian newsrooms’ triumphs — and regrets — while covering the 9/11 attacks
TORONTO — Like every other journalist working in a Canadian newsroom on Sept. 11, 2001, Michelle Shephard recalls the moment she learned a plane had struck the World Trade Center in New York City. Then a crime reporter at the Toronto Star, she barely s...
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Inside Canadian newsrooms' triumphs — and regrets — while covering the 9/11 attacks
TORONTO - Like every other journalist working in a Canadian newsroom on Sept. 11, 2001, Michelle Shephard recalls the moment she learned a plane had struck the World Trade Center in New York City.
·Winnipeg, Canada
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Total News Sources16
Leaning Left8Leaning Right0Center7Last UpdatedBias Distribution53% Left
Bias Distribution
- 53% of the sources lean Left
53% Left
L 53%
C 47%
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