March 24, 2017 | In this week's Newsroom Insider, host Molly Hayes talks to reporter Nicole O'Reilly about the current state of marijuana in Hamilton and how businesses and entrepreneurs are operating in anticipation of federal legalization.

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March 20, 2017 | In this week's Newsroom Insider, host David Crosbie talks to reporter Natalie Paddon about Karim Baratov, the Ancaster man allegedly implicated in the 2014 Russian-sponsored hack of Yahoo! that saw over 500 million email accounts compromised.

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Newsroom Insider: Scott Radley chats with Spec editorial cartoonist Graeme Mackay about how drawing The Donald. And Steve Milton talks about being there for the big game

Newsroom Insider Ep. 4, March 3, 2017 | In the first half of this week's episide, host Jon Wells chats with reporter Mark McNeil about his feature in Saturday’s Spectator about Sunrise Records and the comeback of vinyl. In the second half, managing editor Jim Poling talks about the use of anonymous sources and the thorny issues it raises for journalists and the public alike.

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Newsroom Insider Episode 3, Feb. 24, 2017

Molly Hayes talks about a Hamiltonian's trial in St. Lucia, then asks photographers how to capture an abstract concept like 'weather'

In Episode 2 of the Hamilton Spectator's Newsroom Insider podcast, host Jon Wells talks to Spectator columnist Jeff Mahoney about his craft and a piece he wrote on local author Ray Cunnington, reporter Natalie Paddon about what it's like juggling a variety of stories on the night shift including covering a traffic fatality, and editor-in-chief Paul Berton about Donald Trump, among other topics. Plus bonus coverage: direct audio from health reporter Joanna Frketich's interview with Deb Matthews, Ontario's Deputy Premier and Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development, with respect to her coverage of concerns raised over the contract of Mohawk College president Ron McKerlie.

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In the inaugural edition of the Hamilton Spectator Newsroom Insider Podcast, host Drew Edwards talks to editor-in-chief Paul Berton about this new podcast project, Jon Wells about his remarkable profile of Conservative leadership candidate Lisa Raitt and her husband’s battle with early onset Alzheimer's, as well as Joanna Frketich on Mohawk College president Ron McKerlie's secret contract.

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Mackenzie Hughes, 25, of Dundas won the PGA's RSM Classic on Monday morning in a playoff. It was the first win on the Tour for the PGA rookie. This audio from the news conference following the event, courtesy PGA Tour.

Mike Valvasori of Hamilton suffered a stroke at age 9 that

left him a semi-quadraplegic, with just limited use of a couple of fingers on

his left hand.

Mike, now 36, says he's known since about age 12 that he

wanted to end his life.