From CP via globeandmail.com:

She's run a newsroom at a daily newspaper but now she wants to build a co-op brothel, run by and for prostitutes.

Jody Paterson chuckles when she considers the career change from managing editor to madame of Victoria.

But she says it was the people and stories she encountered on the news beat that ultimately led her to help the people she considers society's classic underdogs, sex workers.

Ms. Paterson, who also wrote a regular column for the Victoria Times-Colonist, admits many of the stories she wrote, especially ones about sex trade workers, touched her personally — a journalistic no-no, where reporters seek the heart of stories but attempt to keep the emotion from sinking into their own skin.

“If you're a journalist you are meeting different people,” she said. “You're learning things you didn't know. You're hearing things that you hadn't expected to hear that your life previously hadn't exposed you to.”

“And if you can just ignore all of that, you're a different person than I am.”

So she quit her city column at the newspaper and joined a prostitute support group in Victoria.