Longer reads from the archive

The entries in this archive deal with single mornings. Features take the longer view: how a subject was handled across decades, what a change in the law did to a newsroom, and why certain stories moved from one desk to another.

When the Gambling Story Left the Crime Desk

For most of the last century a Canadian editor knew exactly where a gambling story belonged: with the police reporter, beside the raids and the court lists. The journey from the crime desk to the consumer page took roughly fifty years, and every stage of it was set in type on a front page first.

Features are added occasionally. The front pages themselves are listed in the viewing gallery and grouped by collection.