Advice for Career-Minded Journalists: Never Cross a Koch

Veteran investigative reporter Bruce Livesey was fired by Global News shortly after talking to CANADALAND about the fact that management had pulled his documentary, The Koch Connection, from their broadcast schedule.

As CANADALAND reported in February, Livesey's documentary about the billionaire Koch Brothers and their ties to Canada was set for broadcast on Global News' 16x9 investigative newsmagazine, only to be pulled from the broadcast schedule and scrubbed from Global's website shortly before it was set to air.

Global News manager Ron Waksman told CANADALAND at the time that the documentary was not "killed, cancelled or dropped" but was merely delayed as it was not yet ready for broadcast. Waksman told us it would likely air in the next season.

CANADALAND has since learned that this is not the case.  (more...)

Global News Kills Koch Brothers Story, Fires Journalist

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