Impact

Topic: Syria

  • Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 2

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton. You learn four hundred new things every day. If that’s not quite how the saying goes, please forgive me. That’s my reality this week. This is the experience of a western journalist in Gaziantep, Turkey. My role here is a leadership one. I am teaching skills

  • Syria Project: Gaziantep – Day 1

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton. I think it’s safe to assume that Reem Haleb still has a scar from where a bullet broke her skin five years ago. Today, Haleb runs Nasaem Radio Syria, a station broadcasting out of Gaziantep, Turkey. In 2012, she was shooting footage of a protest in

  • Syria Project: Day 1

    Originally published by Bill Fortier on CTV News Edmonton. As we end our first half day in Istanbul, I suppose it’s time to open this blog. First, a quick explanation of what the heck I am doing in Turkey. For a few years now, CTV News has been working in partnership with Toronto-based NGO, Journalists for