Less than a year ago, investigative reporter and former network anchor Molly Thomas had her dream job as a correspondent for CTV’s flagship show, W5; with the backing of this team, she applied for the most prestigious fellowship in Canadian journalism, the Michener-Deacon Award.
Molly won the Michener-Deacon fellowship for her special project on education in Afghanistan, the only country in the world where women and girls can’t go to school.
Then, as part of a series of nationwide cuts from Bell Media (which owns CTV), Molly was laid off and the story was shelved.
That’s where Canadaland stepped in.
We’ve teamed up with Molly and the Michener-Deacon Fellowship to produce Dear Taliban, a new three-part investigation that begins today.
Dear Taliban spans three continents, taking listeners from the vice-regal pomp and ceremony of Rideau Hall, to one of the toughest hostile-training programs in the world — all to prepare her for a complex and volatile area of South Asia.
Host: Molly Thomas
Credits: Tristan Capacchione and Caleb Thompson (Audio Editing and Technical Production), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
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