No. Well, I am hiring out of journalism school and out of master's programs particularly, partly because they're the people who are most drawn to covering public affairs.
Hopefully no one else who's heard this before is listening. I've always used the analogy of Saturday Night Live in our operation. Saturday Night Live takes in young comedians, puts them in a writers' room—some of them are stand-ups; some of them are improv masters; some of them are sort of longer, dry-comedy writers—and they hope magic happens. But each of them is building a bridge to whatever is the next thing, whether that's a movie, a sitcom, or back on the Just for Laughs circuit.
My view of iPolitics was that if nobody jumped into the void that was being created in 2007-08, when Canadian media were really worried about what was happening and started cutting experienced journalists out of their newsrooms.... I went to family members who have supported the Michener prize in the past and said that if we don't create something that employs young journalists and gives them the skills, then when the last remaining journalists leave the Toronto Star.... I think when we started, iPolitics had a bureau of at least eight, and is now down to four here. As people leave the bureaus, they're not being replaced. There will be nobody to cover public affairs. There'll be no one who understands how to look at a budget, how to go through an AG's report.