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What is Randy's last name?

Boswell

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What is the name of the Filipina journalist who won a Nobel peace prize in 2021?

Maria Ressa

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How did Randy put a spin on the original marathon run by Philippides while he was covering the olympics in Greece?

He did it in roller-skates

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What country did the "spy balloon" that was recently shot down by US military come from?

China

200

How old was Randy when he wrote his first article and what was it about?

12, about his baseball team winning a championship.

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Trish Audette-Longo, the author of the article we read about the treatment of journalists during the freedom convoy is also a Carleton professor. True or False?

True

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Who is Nahlah Ayed and what does she host?

A journalist for the CBC and host of CBC Radio One

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There was a massive explosion in Ottawa last week that shook homes tens of kilometres away. Where did the explosion happen?

Orleans

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What publication is Randy a staff writer for currently?

The Ottawa Citizen.
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According to the New Canadian Media study that we read in week 2, what percentage of Canadian journalists are white?

78%

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What was the name of the man who owned the camera that recorded the assassination of JFK in 1963?

Abraham Zapruder

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YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki is in the news. Why?

She is stepping down from her role as CEO

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What is Randy's wife's name, who is also a journalism professor at Carleton?

Kelly Patterson?

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How many likes does Washington's Post's Tik Tok account have overall?

71.9 million

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What date was the first edition of the Halifax Gazette published? 

March. 23, 1752

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Bruce Willis was recently diagnosed with a disease. What is it?

Dementia