Midweek
Wednesday January 29th, 2025 with Kathryn Fraser - Jayden Dill
Winter 2025 - Episode #1

And we are off! Midweek hit the ground running this past Wednesday after its holiday hiatus, with a slightly smaller team but no less talent and no fewer ideas. Trump’s tariff threats, drum-beating a world record, and a new program on Indigenous reporting were just a few of the stories to start the season. Top of the morning, reporters assembled to bounce ideas off the production team and most were out the door chasing stories before their boots could dry. Despite some last-minute scrambling to get stories vetted and scripts assembled, the on-air team made it into the studio with plenty of time to spare. The show was off to a strong start with an expert interview on bilingual Liberal leaders. Finance updates both at home and abroad, outreach programs for crime and homelessness, and the newest program out of Carleton University’s journalism school followed. In our first reporter sit-down of the season, Noureen Moghadam took hosts Kathryn Fraser and Jayden Dill through a museum exhibit out of Berlin, Germany—recently featured right here at Carleton. At the bottom half of the hour, we took a look at drumming up attention for a cause, one Ottawa woman’s fight to see her brother released from prison in Morocco, off-peak electricity storage, culinary experimentation, and a brand-new art exhibition in the city. After the show wrapped, the team sat down to discuss what worked and what didn’t—the prevailing sentiment was optimistism. Not bad for the first week of the season! Credits Show Producer: Janson Duench Chase Producer: Sarah Hirsi Music Producer: Hannah Daramola Copy Editor 1: Jessica Campbell Copy Editor 2: Bo-Ning Gao