These articles and essays were published in the not for profit magazine SCRUM, the official magazine of the National Press Club of Canada.

Amid the Ruins, a Kind of News-- How big time news spin has come to the world of humanitarian aid organisations and foreign correspondents are lapping it up.  Tales from East Timor, Albania/Kosovo, and Bosnia.

Six Weeks in the Devil's Swine Herd -- Foreign correspondents descend on poor old Albania in search of the war in Kosovo and beat the shit out of journalism just for the hell of it.

Covering the North -- Journalism at minus 40 in a land where ball point pens freeze, the audience doesn't understand english, there are no news conferences or news releases, and reporters must actually get out and report.

The Worst Interview in the World -- Big time Australian Radio calls a Canadian for comment on native issues and proceeds to disgrace itself, and me, in the process.