Fall is a sad time around the office. Not only is everyone dealing with the fact that summer is turning to fall, the days are getting colder, vacation season is over and the kids are going back to school, but it’s when the interns leave and go back to that naive hope that they might someday secure a permanent job as an investigative reporter once they graduate from journalism school.
One by one, the four reporter interns, two editor interns and one photography intern finished their final shifts and went their merry ways.
Half of them are now back in school, getting degrees in fields that might actually earn them a living. The rest were recently spotted on highways across Canada holding cardboard signs reading: “Will profile your grandmother for food”
While a large amount of the reporters’ time was spent on the night desk, obsessively checking with the police department for news and sharing inappropriate jokes with the copy editors, they also managed to write a few articles longer than 20 words. Here’s a few examples of what they churned out this summer:
Megan Martin
- Confessions of a trivia addict (about a local Jeopardy contestant)
- Human rights school (about a Montreal human rights training program)
- Doing right by Michael Jackson (about a local MJ impersonator)
- Divers/Cité funding Catch-22
- Forecasting weather? Aim for the stars (about an astrologer’s weather predictions)
- “Hard to imagine she is gone” and “I love you, I will always miss you” (about the death of Léa Guilbeault on Peel St.)
- “We should all learn to live like he did” (about the death of a Concordia Stingers football player)
- Peacekeeping-plus in Kahnawake (an original idea of Martin’s, and her last piece for the paper)
- The evolution of e-privacy (written as a freelancer)
Terrine Friday
- They’re on the ball (about the obscure game of Bocce)
- Accountant by day, animal saviour by night
- Nature of the beast (about foxes in the city)
- Landlord fumes over $64,000 gas bill
- DIY back-alley greenings in the plateau
Andrew Halfnight
- Man with appendicitis waits six hours for ambulance
- We’ll be back, Stereo says
- Picking the brain of Bixi’s inventor
- Father of 2nd language immersion (obituary of McGill prof Wallace Lambert)
- “Like a black cloud” (an explosion that killed six cadets in 1974)
- Urban ‘self-generators’ say answer is blowing in the wind