Simona Chiose and Frances Bula, veteran reporters for the Globe and Mail.

This week in news, Neal and Maayan talk about Freedom of Information delays, bringing more refugee students to UBC, the AMS’s campaign against tuition increases, and Hotline Bling.

For our interview, we have two reporters from the Globe and Mail. Simona Chiose is the paper’s higher education reporter, and Frances Bula is a Vancouver institution who covers all sorts of things happening around town. In August, they collaborated on a the most complete account about the departure of former UBC President Arvind Gupta that’s been written so far. We talk to Simona and Frances about collaborating on that story, working with PR departments, and their perspectives of UBC as informed observers who spend most of their time outside the campus bubble.

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Some episode links:

• How UBC Lost a President, by Simona Chiose and Frances Bula.
• The Gupta FOI dump has been delayed until the week before Christmas.
• Trying to bring more refugee students to UBC.
• Our Thrive Week coverage was clearly lacking.
• Arno Rosenfeld left the Ubyssey to fight the tuition hikes for the AMS.
• I know when that hotline bling, that can only mean one thing. That thing, namely, is twitter-spamming Drake.