Efficient and Effective Interviewing
Join investigative journalist Charles Rusnell at his upcoming webinar on key interview skills. Learn a commonsense method of interviewing that is guaranteed to produce better stories, with strong quotes that can be used on all platforms. You will also learn proven strategies for getting the interview, and developing future sources.
Charles Rusnell has been breaking stories that change politics and public life for over 40 years, and he has taught his methodology to students and seasoned journalists worldwide. To get the story, you have to be adept at the most important skill: Interviewing. But journalists often receive no training on how to speak to sources.
Editors and writers at all levels will walk away with new confidence and skills in interviewing subjects.
Join online for this informative webinar, December 10, 2025, a Strategies for Canadian Magazines webinar with Charles Rusnell. Hosted by Joyce Byrne.
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST / 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MST / 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST
MagsBC, AMPA, Magazines Canada, AQEM members, and students: $20 for one seat or $30 for two seats
Non-Members: $30 for one seat or $45 for two seats.
Charles Rusnell’s career spans more than 40 years, as one of Canada’s most experienced investigative journalists. He began his career at The Ottawa Citizen, where his early investigative work led to the first criminal charges in Canadian history against a senator.
After a decade in the nation’s capital, Rusnell moved to the Edmonton Journal, where his work continued to produce many high-impact stories.
Rusnell has won numerous awards during his career. He and his colleague, Jennie Russell, were finalists for the Michener Award for Meritorious Service Journalism and the Canadian Journalism Foundation Award for Excellence in Journalism. They were among 300 journalists worldwide who shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for their work on the Panama Papers as part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. They were also finalists for the National Magazine Award for Long Feature in 2024 and won Gold from the Alberta Magazine Publishers’ Award that same year. They have won the Canadian Association of Journalists award for best investigative report of the year, three national RTDNA awards, six international Edward R. Murrow Awards, and more than a dozen other awards during their 10-year partnership.
An occasional lecturer at journalism schools and conferences, Rusnell teaches courses on investigative organizational methods and research, freedom of information, source building, interviewing and news writing. Rusnell now freelances for various media outlets, including CTV W5, Global’s national investigative unit, Alberta Views magazine and The Tyee.
Joyce Byrne is Alberta Magazine Publishers’ past President and an award-winning veteran of the Canadian magazine industry. She has led publishing, creative, marketing and sales teams and boards in Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, and has worked on nearly every type of magazine, from literary to light industrial, with consumer, business, visual art, health and cannabis in between.
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This webinar is part of the Strategies for Canadian Magazines webinar series brought to you by the Magazine Association of BC, Alberta Magazine Publishers Association, Magazines Canada and L’Association québécoise des éditeurs de magazines.
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