Christopher Curtis (TheRover.ca) – GPYS 308

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The Montreal podcast that asks the founder of therover.ca Christopher Curtis: “Who was the artist that got you into the particular art form that you love?” – that question asked by Jared Wilder back in episode 307.

I think it’s no surprise that both Sarah and I are pretty big fans of investigative journalism in one form or another. From my college years poring over exposés in VICE to our more recent obsessions with deep-dive audio investigations we’ve been avid supporters of journalism that uncovers hard to-tell (and sometimes hard to read) stories and contextualizes them in meaningful ways. All that to say – we’ve been fans of The Rover for some time now and we’re thrilled to finally have Christopher Curtis on the show.

If you’re not familiar The Rover is a Montreal based investigative journalism project that focuses on Montreal and Quebec but also turns towards Canada and the rest of the world from time to time. Honestly, they do some of the best investigative journalism you’ll read on the internet and the fact that it is local and mostly focuses on Montreal and Quebec is a nice bonus if you’re the average Go Plug Yourself listener. Anyways, it’s fundraising time for The Rover so I urge you to head over to therover.ca, read a few articles and if you like what you’re reading consider hitting that “Support Us” button in the top right corner of the page if you’ve got the means. At the time of writing they’re about 50% of their way to their $10,000 goal for this year.

Anyhow – Chris joins Sarah and I to talk about the rover, the state of Canadian politics and so much more. Enjoy the show!

Oh and by the way – the defunct journalism website that Sarah and I could not remember the name of was The Correspondent – which sadly stopped publishing in January 0f 2021.

Credit Where Credit is Due

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

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