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'...better to ask questions and probe into an issue with a comment rather than being divisive and absolute. I think that's the biggest danger — when a reporter becomes an activist.'

A look at one key northern location that could be a northern OHL hub city

'You didn't want to leave it up to the editor to do because they just cut from the bottom.'

To be clear, I never take the story down but may delete the person's name from it

'I was the last guy to get a phone. I mean, I never even had a flip phone. I skipped the cell phone. And I didn't get a smartphone until three years ago.'

How to fairly cover subjects suffering from mental health issues; interviewing people with cognitive impairments

'I played like Gordie Howe once a year'

Coverage is also determined by access to information and how the individual health unit engages the public

The reporters chat about anonymous sources and attribution