Journalism January 29 – February 4, 2016

JOURNALISM JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 4, 2016 DALHOUSIE STUDENT UNION DSU.ca /dalstudentunion @dalstudentunion dalstudentunion SOCIETY FAIR Sabina Wex, Editor-in-chief SEXTON campus [email protected] Eleanor Davidson, News Editor WED, FEB 3, 2016 [email protected] John Hillman, Opinions Editor ALUMNI LOUNGE FROM 11-2PM [email protected] FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: Paola Tolentino, Arts Editor Yazan Matarieh, Sexton Campus Director [email protected] [email protected] Cam Honey, Sports Editor [email protected] Patrick Fulgencio, Photo Manager [email protected] Jayme Spinks, Art Director [email protected] Gabe Flaherty, Business and Advertising Manager [email protected] Contributing to this issue: unro Da Hannah Ascough, Shelby Banks, Erin Brown, u y S M Sk William Coney, David Fright, Katie Lesser, Logan Robins, i Tr Shannon Slade, Victoria Walton, Josh Young rip $50 ADVERTISING CONTACT US Fri Ticket includes transportation to Gabe Flaherty www.dalgazette.com Ski Wentworth, lift Advertising Manager The SUB, Room 312 Feb 647 261 6692 6136 University Avenue ticket, rental, and [email protected] Halifax NS, B3H 4J2 5th lesson (if required) Register at the Only $30 withOut SUB Info desk transpOrtatiOn THE FINE PRINT The Gazette is the official written record of Dalhousie University since 1868. 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We fully support journalists’ rights, but we have a contract with the printer. 03 NEWS JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 4, 2016 Untold stories Reflections on the future of journalism ELEANOR DAVIDSON, NEWS EDITOR “Yet, in the close to three years since my first day at journalism school, we have seen Canadian journalism take a beating of nearly unprecedented levels.” On my first day of journalism school, my pro- union representing 61 employees at the series of cuts to long-established institu- as it breaks. We check a variety of sources, fessor showed my class a video of a massive Herald, has asked for those who support tions of Canadian journalism. and expect them to be free, easily accessible tub of sickly pink mystery meat being shoved them cancel their subscription to the paper. Here at the Gazette, we have spent 148 years and up-to-date. into a sausage grinder. She said that sausage Also in the past two weeks, Postmedia news- trying to provide a place for student jour- This is not to say that we no longer need making is the perfect allegory for the work of papers laid off 90 staff across the country. nalists to get a feel for the industry. reputable journalists; for all of the rapid-fire the journalist: we must condense any matter In the words of Selena Ross, a former Canadian journalists such as Stephanie breaking news, we need people to tell the full story. of confusing, complicated material and make reporter at the Herald who now writes for Nolen and Stephen Kimber have written The problem, the elephant in the room, is it into something clear and easily compre- the Globe and Mail: for the paper. Joseph Howe, Lucy Maude that these two realities are not easily mixed. hensible. We must shed light Montgomery and Joe Clark It is terrifying to think of the thousands of on the stories that need to have all had their bylines stories that will go untold as the numbers of be told, we must question published in the Gazette. Canadian journalists continue to decrease. the status quo, and we must Past editors, writers and These layoffs and cuts do not mean that never cease to be curious photographers have gone on reporters will be replaced or resources and to query everything. to work in newsrooms across renewed. Instead, newspapers all across the Yet, in the close to three the country and the globe. country now must rely on fewer resources, years since my first day at So many of our staff and on fewer cumulative years of expertise, to journalism school, we have our contributors came to try and paint an accurate picture of the daily seen Canadian journalism journalism school with the happenings. take a beating of nearly high hopes to educate the From us here at the Gazette, from dozens unprecedented levels. public, tell ground-breaking of young aspiring journalists, we thank you In recent weeks, we have seen chaos On Jan. 15, the Toronto Star closed its stories and travel the world. all. Thank you for reading this. Thank you for unfold at Canada’s oldest independently printing plant and, according to the Globe Yet today, a tone of uncertainty and fear getting back to us with your praise as well as owned newspaper, the Chronicle Herald. and Mail, cut “13 digitally focused positions surround the future of journalism. For many with your criticism. Following several years of cuts to the from the newsroom, 15 from circulation of us, the thought of even getting a job in our But most importantly, thank you to the paper’s newsroom and support staff, jour- and offered voluntary buyouts to remaining chosen field after graduation has become a countless Canadian journalists out there nalists at the Herald will now no longer have newsroom staff.” nearly laughable prospect. who have inspired us, taught us, and tire- their by-lines written above their own stories. It seems as though we cannot go more than People do not get their news from a single lessly worked to tell the stories that we all The Halifax Typographical Union, the a few days without hearing of another major morning paper. We consume news on-the-go, need to hear. You will be sorely missed. 04 PULL QUOTE: “Her con- nection to figure skating actually saved her life” NEWS New exhibition featuring immigration and skating opens at Pier 21 Exhibit includes figure skaters, shoemakers SHELBY BANKS Many immigrants who came to Canada from the 1930s to the skater but a shoemaker, says Schwinghamer. the skaters featured in the exhibit, including Victor Kraatz late 1990s arrived after fleeing their home countries. Some Knebli passed through Pier 21 when he came to Canada at the 2003 world championships, who became a junior ice went on to become world-famous figure skaters. in the 1930s. He went back to Hungary to pick up his wife dance champion. The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 opened and they started their life in Toronto, where he established a “I was there, I have seen some of these people skate at com- an exhibit this week called Perfect Landings that chronicles shoemaking business. That’s where he started making skates. petitions,” says Zwaagstra. “They were great people and I was these skaters. “One of the customers had said, ‘Could you make some- proud to see them in the Perfect Landings exhibit.” “Looking at this history is a lens; it provides us with a really thing for my son?’” says Schwinghamer, “and this was his first Halifax hosted the National Skating Championships from useful set of reflections on broader immigration history,” time making skates.” Jan. 18-24, lending a modern angle to this historical exhibit. says Steven Schwinghamer, the historian at Pier 21 who “He breaks into the business sort of by coincidence, and Schwinghamer hopes that the display will get more people organized the exhibit. winds up being really one of the prime equipment makers in to come out and consider the story of the skating athletes and “Things like the process of admission, integration into the history of the sport in Canada.” the history of the sport. Canada, questions about belonging and transnational Most of the skates that were available were unreliable. ”Many figure skating fans are passionate in a way that it identity. The case studies that we use in this exhibit help us Knebli could make perfect skates for the sport. extends good awareness of the sport and the history of the answer and understand all of these things.” “They were the tie on, or the imperfect screws or some- competitors,” says Schwinghamer.

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