David P. Ball is an award-winning freelance journalist and host of CFRO The Pulse. His four-part investigation of B.C.’s coal export plans won awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists in 2014 and the Jack Webster Foundation in 2013; and his six-part series and film on undocumented immigrants in Metro Vancouver was shortlisted as finalist for both awards in 2015. He is a former reporter for the Toronto Star, and has written stories in the National Post, AFP, VICE, The Tyee, iPolitics and the Daily Mail.
Already besieged as ‘enemy of the people’ by President Trump and his followers, how do journalists report a pandemic when even basic facts are in dispute?
