Scott Martin

Scott Martin is the founder of The Catch. He holds a journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University. He loves punk and metal music, history and his cat Wally.

Scott Martin

Podcast

News You Can't Use - Live May 30, 2025 (The North State Podcast)

My first talk on news criticism so be nice

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Journalism

Journalism's Free Market Free Fall

Government intervention in journalism funding needs more focus

Podcast

What Canadians Can Learn from Australia's Election ft. Mitch Alexander (The North State Podcast)

Digging deeper to see what Australia's election can really teach us

Podcast

Our Decaying News Ecosystem is a Political Problem (The North State Podcast)

A tour through the nonsense factory

Podcast

Grading Journalism's Election Performance ft. Nora Loreto (The North State Podcast)

See us after class, news outlets

Podcast

The Down Under State ft. Mitch Alexander (The North State Podcast)

Foster's and Molson, together at last

Podcast

Breakdown: (Mostly) Election Special 2025 ft. Eric Wickham (The North State Podcast)

Let's become pundits together

Podcast

When Ya Get Drafted ft. Ian Barclay (The North State Podcast)

Two different approaches to the same age-old problem

Ian Hanomansing on screen with David Frum during Cross Country Checkup

News Analysis

Cross-Country Checked-out

Surely people are simply unappreciative of good intentions

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Announcement

Time for a Break

There's a lot going on right now, as you can imagine.

Podcast

51st State Blues ft. Tyler Shipley (The North State Podcast)

Canada should have seen this coming... so how did we get here?

Silhouette of a baseball catcher facing a wall of tentacles. "The Catch-All ICYMI"

Round-up

The Catch-all: ICYMI January 18-24

The news I've been consuming this week

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