Pam Sword
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Mom, cat mom, vegan, mediocre gardener, longtime and newly laid-off web editor/former reporter looking for a new gig. pamelasword(at)
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It always felt like a special privilege to bring the news to Nova Scotians for the past 35 years - first as a reporter, then editor, then the woman who ran the night news desk, then to being part of a great Herald digital team, then leading the team, then being the whole team 1/8
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And PS - one of my best jobs ever was running the Herald strike paper, Local Xpress. We were so good at a terrible time. Find journalism run by journalists and give them your money. As the news ecosystem looks more and more like a bleached coral reef, your support is vital. /30
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Nova Scotia flood victim Terri-Lynn Keddy, 14, had her last chemo six months ago and was just recently given the all-clear from cancer.
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I sat there for hours, checking each of the seemingly many incidents, with multiple reports of each - and almost none of the reports were true. I wrote a story that was accurate and that’s what you get from journalism - people committed to finding the truth. 6/8
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So, while Postmedia may not want my truth 😽, and I’ve never been without a job in my adult life, the fates in suits have spoken. If you know of work for a veteran of the glorious and tattered news industry, msg me please. My heart may be broken but my DMs are open. 7/8
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Today’s Bruce MacKinnon editorial cartoon. Thanks,
@CH_Cartoon
#BlackLivesMatter
(online version
@chronicleherald
)
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The
#ThankCanada
tweets are lovely. So, thank YOU. And if any of you find yourself in Halifax, I’ll buy you a Canadian beer 🙂
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The layoffs included two of just three women in our 21-person newsroom and also the only two moms. So I’m sad the newsroom will no longer have that lens of experience and insight to draw on for deciding what we should cover and how 3/8
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But all special things - except often love - come to an end. Today I join the ranks - in the case of others, some very talented ranks - of those laid off as a result of Postmedia’s acquisition of SaltWire. Three editors and one reporter lost their jobs in the Herald newsroom 2/8
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But maybe you never read the Herald anymore. So you wouldn’t know that our diminished-over-time-and-fate newsroom still broke great stories, ones you may have read CBC or other versions of days later. We still had moxy. 4/8
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Counted 11 men, one woman unmasked during my Sobeys trip. Why did they tell girl-me that boys were better at science?
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My desk before I was laid off from SaltWire. And after. I had one of the best jungles and thanks to the guys in IT and dev ops who kept the tech going.
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The other day, I read a guy’s post that said: Who cares about the media when everybody on Facebook is publishing breaking news? That reminded me of the day not long after the mass shootings when suddenly around dusk there was a rash of reports of gunfire or gunmen being seen 5/8
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Finally made it to office after 3.5 hours of shovelling, salting, street-plow praying. Cabs impossible to get and roads are terrible. Also, I forgot to bring shoes and my socks don’t match but what the hell.
#NSStorm
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Barrett’s Privateers. OMF, this is good.
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What this means for you: We’re still here tomorrow, the day after, and the day after that. Subscribers will get their paper, stories will go online. We’re even working on a special series!
Please support us if you can. Your hometown paper - wherever you live - is important.
Nova Scotia Supreme Court grants SaltWire creditor protection
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Eleven newsroom employees left at the Herald. In 2016, there were about 60.
Postmedia CEO says layoffs at SaltWire, Herald are necessary to stabilize papers
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I'll be 1 of about 25 HTU members returning to work at
@chronicleherald
. Will fiercely miss my many fine colleagues who are not
#CHstrike
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At going-away thing for 5 Herald colleagues. Bad photos but the most of us in one room since the start of the pandemic. Stephen, Christine, Laurent, Eric, Paul - a big part of the newsroom’s heart, talent and experience goes with you. See you on the other side.♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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I have a copy of tomorrow’s
@chronicleherald
front page on my desk and am almost crying because it’s that good and it broke my heart. It’s a
@CH_Cartoon
drawing. I wish I could show you but you’ll have to wait.
#Portapique
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Two Sobeys bags by the front door. One with my lunch, snacks and one shoe for work. Grabbed other shoe, and put it in identical bag by mistake. I now have one shoe and six cans of cat food to get me thru a long day at the office.
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More sad news from the Postmedia takeover of SaltWire. If you’re hiring, a terrific city hall reporter and features writer needs a job.
It took me a few days to get over some of the shock to make a post about this, but I was let go from The Chronicle Herald due to the Postmedia purchase. I’ll be fine though and I’m looking forward to what’s next.
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Aw. This just got deleted. Maybe stay tuned for the spell-checked version?
#macdebate
http://t.co/wV7fyFeIWG
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2day marks 500 days of my newsroom union's
#CHstrike
. So proud of brave colleagues - u never know what you've got inside u till it's tested
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Congrats to the four NNA finalists I have the privilege of working with in Halifax:
@HNewspj
,
@AndrewRankinCB
,
@CH_Cartoon
and
@deAdder
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I saw some self-styled freedom fighter tweet this morning: “Who gets to decide when the pandemic is over? The people do!”
The correct answer, however, is scientists.
God may still love idiots but even she must be getting fed up.
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Alexa McDonough fought for equality for all beginning in a time when that was still a pretty damn radical thing (I was there, too. Trust me). She had the heart of a lion, the compassion of a saint and the job of a politician. What a story. What a life. Rest in power, sister ♥️
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Huge props to colleague
@Nicole__Munro
for solid live coverage of this important and disturbing story, after working as web editor for provincial election till 3 a.m. You’re amazing, Cub.
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Big thank you to
@CBCNS
for it’s all-night call-in with
@RealJeffDouglas
and regular
#Fiona
updates - still going strong with other hosts. You were just what we needed. Old-school radio can still kick everyone else’s ass.
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Happy
#IWD18
. Proud to say my newsroom is currently 100% women -- at least until the second person gets here.
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Thanks everyone for the reposts and likes yesterday. The best thing about Nova Scotians is that when bad stuff happens, no one stands alone.
I hope we always have “the paper.” May we come through this fire stronger and better.
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Ha, your verbal adjectives are not incorrect. I am both. Thank you.
My union leader/environmentalist dad taught me that you don’t ignore bad things, you fight. While I can’t fight this, I can keep saying that yesterday a lot of good journalists lost their jobs in Atlantic Canada
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My girl, who insisted on picketing in rain w/ me after school Fri. U are braver than u know,
@emma_sword
#CHstrike
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Why bother legislating a living wage or properly funding health care, when you can buy a cookie?
Until September 23rd,
@TimHortons
restaurants across the province are selling smile cookies for $1 and the full dollar goes directly to local charities. Here in Halifax, those charities are
@feednovascotia
&
@IWKHealthCentre
.
#SmileCookie
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@BarbraStreisand
@HereIsPegMacK
The author of the cartoon is Bruce MacKinnon
@CH_Cartoon
of The Chronicle Herald
@chronicleherald
. He’s one of the best in the world.
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Canada’s two best editorial cartoonists
@deAdderCanada
and
@CH_Cartoon
and
@roquelapresse
, the fine Opinions editor who put their work in the paper and on the web. We’ll miss him.( Keeping Bruce and Mike)
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1. If you can, spare a few bucks to help keep this senior keep her home.
2. HRM should give her this money back because it screwed up
3. A news outlet should do a story on this - bureaucratic incompetence and heartlessness
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So epic,
@NS_scooke
, that you won for a body of work produced almost entirely while on strike. For the rest of today, you are my hero 🙂
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My late father was a PSAC member & v. active in union movement. He would be proud of ur generosity. ❤️from me & his granddaughter
#CHstrike
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In a highly clairvoyant move by
@chronicleherald
newsroom, ahead of HRM electing a record # of women, it was decided weeks ago that
@Nicole__Munro
would take over the city hall beat after the election, once again putting it in female hands 🙂
And there you have it. Unofficial election results from the tight race in District 11.
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Nevertheless, we persisted. Much respect to HTU colleagues on the line and online at LX.
#CHstrike
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@seleross
Aw, shucks. I knew you were the one to hire, esp after the interview.
And I also convinced you to get on Twitter! That was one of the best eras the newsroom had, with you and other stellar talents. (I still have your pix of deck collapse on my computer, sentimental fool am I.)
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All ready to play
@BuzzFeedCanada
#macdebate
drinking game (all-ages version) with
@emma_sword
http://t.co/CIsBvs8pAY
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Launching my campaign to be Nova Scotia's first spelling laureate. It's time to make orthography great again.
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@MoffJd
@Harryslaststand
Just took up your challenge and donated to
@UNHCRCanada
in Harry’s name. Best wishes to Harry from a former Belleville resident now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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#CHstrike
has been terrible and exhausting - let's not pretend otherwise - but so, so much better than giving up.
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For all of the outliers going back to school today, those who do not fit into convenient, neat constructs and who must painfully make their own path because none yet exists — I believe in you. Be brave. You are already extraordinary.
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Did an accused international cocaine smuggler who escaped from custody in Dartmouth two weeks ago meet his end aboard a stolen sailboat named Secret Plans as he fled south through hurricane Larry’s fury? Maybe we’ll never know.
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Very ironic. CH forced its digital news editor- me -out on strike. I've started 2 news websites in 4 mos.
#CHstrike
NowNS:More women are starting businesses, still underrepresented in tech by
@chronicleherald
#WomenFounderWednesday
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Well, I just got home from a 12-hour work day 😐 but on the drive I saw a tiny girl dressed in a sparkly unicorn costume so I guess we’re even, universe. 🌈
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View of the Northwest Arm, looking out to sea this morning, from Herald building.
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I’m glad I lived long enough to see my longtime colleague
@CH_coalblackhrt
write about a TikTok phenomenon 🙂
#shantytok
John DeMont column: The world has discovered the power and fun of sea shanties. Here in the Maritimes, we knew it all along
#seashanties
#ShantyTok
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Thank you,
@GaryBurrill
. If all 3 main parties did this, the strike would soon be over. How about it,
@nspc
@NSLiberal
?
#endCHstrike
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I've got so many odd "gifts" during
#CHstrike
. New one: LX traffic is likely as good as any news site in NS right now. Not kidding.
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@Tim_Bousquet
My daughter left a checkout line to walk over to a guy & his 2 teen daughters at Clayton Park Sobeys who were shopping without masks. She asked him to put on a mask bcs “you’re was making ppl uncomfortable.” He refused but at least she tried. These ppl need to be called out.
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Listening to Fireside Al on
@cbcasithappens
in church parking lot. Hope it's over before church service or it'll be a tough choice
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Of course, I will hire Barb for the all-female digital newsroom that I’m looking to start 😉but I’d be even happier if she got another journalism job post-haste, so to speak. She’s top-notch. So sorry this happened,
@BarbSweetTweets
Hi folks, national awarding winning journalist here now out of work. (Terminated by Post Media due to the SaltWire sale.) Any leads you may have in research, communication, etc. are so appreciated. Thanks to all whose stories I told or who read my stories.
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When I was talking to
@CH_coalblackhrt
yesterday, he called Joel Jacobson “one of the great citizens of Halifax.”
So that & more. Joel was a truly good soul, with the warmth and energy of sunlight. All of his Herald colleagues loved him, as did pretty much anyone who knew him.
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A bright young graduate’s farewell to Halifax. We should be ashamed.
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Proud of my kid
@emma_sword
, who spoke about
@HTU_official
strike at rally today. Earned a smoothie :-)
#CHstrike
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Congratulations, Tim. The Examiner is a huge achievement and has become an essential part of N.S. media
The Halifax Examiner website went live two years ago today. My first post was on the 23rd, tho, so I'm calling next Thursday the birthday.
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Former CH web editors
@sbradleyns
@PatriciaGailLee
@rickconrad
- and Murphy the dog - visit line this a.m.
#CHstrike
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Stuck for Hfx area child care Mon? Want to help HTU family? My 17 yr old is experienced babysitter. (No complete strangers or Liberals pls)
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Papers in the
@SaltWireNetwork
will now call the climate crisis the “climate crisis” — not change, warming, etc. — to reflect global reality, aka science. Proud of this
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Welcome to the 'hood,
@RockStarLydia
Has teeth, will travel: Lydia the great white shark may be headed toward Nova Scotia
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Thanks for being a reader, Stan. Safe travels in the beyond. (From today’s obits)
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I’ve been forced to impose visitor restrictions on my cubicle sanctuary in light of the occasional distance-challenged visitor
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Already got 3 stories filed today for
@xpress_local
. Plus a couple filed last night and not posted yet. Imagine if we had jobs 😎
#CHstrike
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It's Take Your Kid to Work Day so
@emma_sword
is here, learning how to run the
@chronicleherald
website
http://t.co/9kxogHkTvg
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My kid can sell you pet food/treats today in Clayton Park. Power still out so cash only. Only store in the plaza open except for Sobeys - she’s awesome.
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For anyone who doesn't know,
@CH_Cartoon
will be on CNN soon, talking about today's cartoon
http://t.co/cTAPTWPtw5
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Sad and wonderfully written story by
@juanitamercer_
on N.L.’s last printing press and the people who run it.
‘All we have is hope’: Workers at N.L.’s last printing press worry they’ll be out of work in less than two weeks
Postmedia purchase of The Telegram didn’t include printing operations
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Super-pleased right now that the Herald’s online sports ‘section’/queue has four out of six articles about women, and the other 2 give equal billing to women.
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Just watched this presentation from guidance counsellor
@ron_nugent
to law amendments. Very powerful.
#NSTU
#nspoli
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HAPPY UPDATE: Buster the beagle has been reunited with his owners. He’d made it three blocks from home on his ancient legs. Apparently, a cat was involved.
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@DevetRobert
Robert worked tirelessly to amplify the voice of anyone in need of justice. He worked selflessly and with little compensation, just because it was the right thing to do. I’m so sorry for your loss and that of your family, Simon. Please know that many hearts break at his passing.
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Why do people clean the supermarkets out of food ahead of a storm, and fill up on propane, only to head to Tims or McDonalds first thing after a storm blows through?
#FionaNS
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Humongous congrats to talented colleagues
@CH_Cartoon
and
@HNewspj
for your National Newspaper Award wins tonight. Ditto to the other winners and finalists. You inspire us all to be better ♥️ . Full list:
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Meanwhile, just hours before Canada 🇨🇦 Day, at the Dartmouth beer store drive-thru ...
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Most of us in the Herald newsroom went thru the brutal 2016-17 strike. A few of us have been in war zones.
Many have seen things you’re never supposed to see. We’ve helped people thru our work. Stood in hurricanes. We’re fine - but please help save our paper ♥️
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I’m following Nicole on this because I’m near the back of what is an HUGE crowd and can’t hear what’s being said.
There are at least 1,000 people kneeling on Spring Garden Road in Halifax.
#BlackLivesMatter
.
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Noushin is a stellar young journalist and first-rate human being. I’ll miss her a lot.
Today is my last day
@chronicleherald
and last week in Nova Scotia. Despite moving here in March 2020, just as COVID hit, I couldn't have asked for a better place to be this past year and a half. And it's been such a pleasure working alongside so many talented journalists.
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HUGE thank you to
@hfxgov
plow driver angel who took 2 ft of hard snow down to nothing for this 4:30 am driveway shoveller
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my union being mean to ppl who might want to take my job from me, they are basically outside of any words I might like to say aloud.
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Scab reporter's premise: Vegans must give birth to foliage. Striking vegan editor's premise: Scabs are idiots.
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My favourite person has now voted four times - twice federally, 1 x provincial and municipal - and she’s just 21. Proud of
@emma_sword
and all the other young people voting today who are casting informed ballots for positive change.
#CanadaElection2021
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@Laker_PatHealey
If heart and hard work were enough to keep The Laker afloat, it would have gone on forever because of you. ❤️ Best of luck and thanks for all the stories.
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At the end, it looks like there's just 3 readers left.
#CHstrike
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