Frances Bula Starts New Blog and Reinvents Herself, After Tenure at Vancouver Sun

Frances Bula has a new blog.

Bula, a former Vancouver Sun reporter, now writes “The State of Vancouver,” a blog that serves up drama, comedy and character, and only occasionally slides into the dryly informational. It has stylistic touches of Jon Stewart’s comic rendering of politics mixed with shades of renowned journalist David Halberstam’s detailed reporting, splashed with brilliant characterizations reminiscent of novelist Tom Wolfe, and topped off with the late Oriana Fallaci’s stealthy interviewing style, all displayed on a Vancouver canvas.

“I find almost everyone I deal with fascinating,” Frances Bula said over tea last summer at La Petite France on Arbutus. “I’m not the kind of person who sees the world in black and white. Other reporters are good at doing that. For me, there’s always complexities and I’m fascinated by them.”

Read about why Frances left The Vancouver Sun and what her plans are on The Vancouver Observer.

Photo of Frances Bula by Linda Solomon