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• It’s Closing Time for The Fab Files

  Let’s not bury the lead: this eclectic little blog has served its purpose, and it’s time to put it to rest.I started The Fab Files as an undergraduate student i... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2013 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Data Privacy: Why Should We Care?

  

  News that the U.S government has been quietly collecting data from telephone and internet services has upset many of our neighbours to the south.But the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Generation Why: CBC News’ Digital Digest of Must-read News for Young Canadians

  

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  Posted on 13 April 2013 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Vintage Interviews with Youthful Gen X Sound Awfully Familiar

  

  The faces of Gen X (CBC Archives)While perusing the CBC archives recently, I came across some nifty items about my generation’s older siblings: the supposedly... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Time to Pay Attention to What’s Happening in El Salvador

  

  Posing by La Puerta del Diablo in El Salvador. January 2012. (Photo by Beatrice Carletti)One of my resolutions this year is to learn more about my birthplace an... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2013 SOCIETY

• Missing David Rakoff

  

  This past August, we lost David Rakoff — a gifted humorist and storyteller who has been affectionately called Gen X’s Oscar Wilde and “one of the best pointed... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2012 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Notes on Freedman’s Letters to a Young Journalist

  

  Samuel G. Freedman’s sage if sentimental book Letters to a Young Journalist is a meditation on what it takes and what it means to be a journalist. His... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2012 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• The Magic of Mars on Social Media

  

  Hey folks, sorry I’ve been rather silent lately. The summer is a busy time for young writers at CBCNews.ca. It seems all the folks with families make sure they... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2012 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• 6 Father’s Day Gifts for Unconventional Dads

  

  If your father — or papi, baba, tatay, pai, abba — doesn't really wear ties, hates fishing, and couldn't care less about "the game" (whatever the sport may... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2012 FAMILY

• Media Roundup: Attempted Arson at St. Joseph’s College School

  

  The basement of St. Joseph’s College School in 2003.St. Joseph’s College School — an all-girls Catholic School in Toronto — was the focus of national headlines... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2012 MEDIA, SOCIETY

• What is Journalism? An Overview for the Uninitiated

  

  This post was written for my 16-year-old cousin Lola, who recently told me that she wants to be a journalist. So, let’s start by making sure she knows what she’... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2012 MEDIA

• The Enigmatic Genius of Vivian Maier, Street Photographer

  

  I’d never heard of Vivian Maier before yesterday, but now I can’t stop thinking about her. Maier’s street photography is probably the best I’ve ever seen — but... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Tiny School, Big Ideas

  

  Welcome to High Park Day School, where grades are nixed, ages are mixed, and classroom sizes are capped at a dozen. By Fabiola Carletti Quinn arrived at High... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2012 SCHOOLING

• One Woman’s Blind Date with the City of Toronto

  

  Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present inspires local theater studentBy Fabiola Carletti Originally published by the Toronto StarAllison Leadley spent a day... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2012 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Has Airplane Noise Increased in Central Toronto?

  

  By Fabiola Carletti Previously published by Open File Toronto and t.o.night By Paul’s Best Shots on Flickr (CC)Many residents of neighbouring communities say... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Dear Future Teens: I Really Wish We Could Have Kept Katimavik for You

  

  My rural, urban, liberal, conservative, radical, loud, quiet, atheist, Christian, anglophone, francophone, gay, straight, Canadian-born, immigrant, anarchist,... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2012 SOCIETY

• PHOTOS | Toronto’s Back Alley Art Gallery

  Visitors to the Art Gallery of Ontario were invited to exit the building on Saturday and follow two guides on a tour of Toronto’s brick walls and back alleys. Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2012 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• The “tall Tale” About a Hero in My Family That Turned out to Be True

  

  Carlos Dardano (Facebook)If your father told you that your one-eyed uncle landed a passenger aircraft after its two engines burned out in the middle of a... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• What Would You Like to Ask CBC News?

  

  I wrote this post for CBCNews.ca, and will be coordinating this project. You can view the original post here. Have you ever wondered how journalists prepare... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2012 CAREER, ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, SOCIETY

• What Slain Journalist Marie Colvin Lived For

  

  Colvin, dead amidst a massacre, describes the horror in Homs Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2012 MEDIA, SOCIETY