‘This is a pivotal moment’: tumultuous two weeks prompt ‘soul-searching’ in newsrooms on the Hill, across Canada

'We must do better, particularly in the parliamentary bureau,' says CBC’s Ottawa bureau chief Rob Russo. 'We are committed to taking a hard look at ourselves and improving,' says editor-in-chief at The Canadian Press Andrea Baillie.
Parliamentary Press Gallery reporters, pictured in the West Block on May 1, 2019, scrumming Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and then-international trade diversification minister Jim Carr, who is now Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's special representative for the Prairies.
As the tumultuous events of the last two weeks have prompted a “pivotal moment” in the Canadian media industry and “soul-searching in newsrooms across the country,” the leaders of a number of media organizations that report the news from Parliament Hill say they are refocusing efforts to bri...

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