Redmond Shannon – Journalist

Global National Newscast, May 22, 2017

Millions of people across the world do not have a formal mailing address, but precise GPS coordinates are very difficult to remember. To solve that problem, an app, developed in London, has divided the world into 57-trillion three-metre squares; each assigned an easy-to-remember three-word code. Click below to play:

Two of the past three U.S. presidents have invited Canada’s prime minister to be their first foreign guest at the White House. But British Prime Minister Theresa May will get that honour this time. Does this mean America will be looking east more than north under Trump? Click below to play:

A micro-engraver etches the face of Jane Austen into four £5 notes, and quietly releases them into circulation. Each could be worth £20,000. Click below to play:

When you’re assigned to do a one-minute “rant” to camera about a meeting that hasn’t even happened yet, the challenge is to make it not suck.

I went to meet some of the people who live on a riverbank during the warmer months of the year.

How beer money helped this woman to stay on the wagon.

Lyse Doucet is the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent. I had the opportunity to meet her recently. Here’s what she told me about her time in Syria, and her thoughts on Canada’s refugee plan.

A man is found alive, five days after he went missing in the woods. This TV story is a little rough, but it was written and edited in 70 minutes. One of those days.

Selamneh Techane went missing in 2010. Almost five years later, his body was found in the attic above the room he had lived in. The coroner says foul play is not suspected, but Techane’s brother and friends say it doesn’t add up.