FREDERICTON (CUP) -- "I got to work Thursday morning and everything on my computer was frozen," Miriam Christensen said as she walked the streets of Saint John, N.B., looking for a pet store to buy a travel harness for her cat. "I tried to login, but I was locked out," she said. It was her last day as editor of [here], a weekly news magazine servicing Moncton, St. John and Fredericton. But she didn't know it yet.
Last week, the original cover photo of the Oct. 6 edition of [here] was pulled and replaced shortly before distribution. The intended photo of a nursing child and its accompanying article coincided with a breast-feeding conference in St. John and World Breast-feeding week. Christensen wrote the article partly due to the fact that New Brunswick's breast-feeding numbers sit well-below the national average.
"New Brunswick has the second-lowest, or the lowest rate of breast-feeding in Canada, and with that in mind it was decided that we'd grant a cover story on the subject to all three cities," said Christensen.
With the issue set for its Thursday release, [here]'s production team was training in Moncton last Wednesday, while Christensen remained at her desk in Saint John. She had given her two weeks notice early last week, after taking a job with a Danish public radio station in Copenhagen, making further training for [here] unnecessary. The team discussed the cover and its implications before agreeing that, whatever the outcome, it would run.
"But when I was walking to work on Thursday morning I noticed that none of the papers were out," said Christensen.
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