Journalism
IAN BROWN PROFILE
By Tom Teicholz at 23 October, 2008, 11:54 am
The cover story of the Spring 2007 issue of Canada’s Ryerson Review of Journalism featured a long, long, profile of my friend Ian Brown who is truly one of the least appreciated great writers we have — alright he may be appreciated in Toronto, but not so much here in the lower Americas. In my […]
Read More >>Reading Variety
By Tom Teicholz at 15 October, 2008, 10:28 am
I’ve always been intrigued by the conversation that goes on inside one’s head as one reads the Trades. In a cost-cutting measure I abandoned the Hollywood Reporter, but I still maintain my Varety subscription, although I am tempted to move to a online subscription (shared — shush! don’t tell anyone). What is so strange about […]
Read More >>I am also a consultant
By Tom Teicholz at 19 June, 2008, 11:53 am
Having spent a great deal of last year consulting for Fanista.com. I recently signed up with the Gerson Lehman Group as a consultant on media, technology and content. As part of the GLG groups, I am asked to comment on certain news stories and trends. Asked to comment on the recent story about the LA […]
Read More >>What if Arts Writers and Sports Writers Changed Places?
By Tom Teicholz at 18 June, 2008, 12:03 pm
This is exactly the question England’s Guardian newspaper set out to answer. In today’s installment, dance critics, visual art critics, and other arts writers, review horse racing, darts and crickets. Click Here.Tomorrow the sports writers take on the arts.
Read More >>READ MY LA TIMES OP-ED
By Tom Teicholz at 13 June, 2008, 9:57 am
Here’s the link to “The Pariah Loophole” in today’s LA Times in which I discuss how former Nazis remain free here because no country will take them.
Read More >>CHANGES AT THE LA TIMES SUNDAY MAG
By Tom Teicholz at 10 June, 2008, 10:47 am
Reports appeared today that the LA Times Sunday Magazine is no more (again). Or Rather than the current regime has all been fired and that the magazine has been turned over to the business side who will devise their own version of the magazine, free from the control of the editorial side, and engage writers […]
Read More >>JEWISH LIKE AMY FINE COLLINS at VanityFair.com
By Tom Teicholz at 4 June, 2008, 12:10 pm
Amy Fine Collins, who often writes on fashion, and who administrates the International Best Dressed List, has written an exclusive web piece for VanityFair.com called “Jewish Like Me” about her own feelings and experiences, and coming to terms with her Jewish identity. Like many journalists, sometimes the best stories you have to tell, are the […]
Read More >>MUSTANG by Deanne Stillman
By Tom Teicholz at 22 May, 2008, 1:58 pm
Just got my copy of Deanne Stillman’s MUSTANG: The saga of the Wild horse in the American West (Houghton Mifflin). Mustang has received great blurbs from Ian Frazier, Michael Blake (Dances with Wolves), Tony Hillerman, Samantha Dunn, John Fusco and Deena Metzger and that’s just on the book jacket. Stillman is one of the great […]
Read More >>IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STATE OF JOURNALISM
By Tom Teicholz at 20 May, 2008, 2:36 pm
You could do worse than read Alissa Quart’s article ” Lost Media, Found Media” in the current Columbia Journalism Review. She tells it like it is, and how it may be……
Read More >>Readings and writings
By Tom Teicholz at 17 March, 2008, 10:13 am
Richard Price has sold movie rights to “Lush Life” to Scott Rudin/Miramax. Price will write the screenplay. Edward Rothstein‘s essay on public libraries, their past, present, and future, is worth reading and gives one a lot to think about it. Actually I found it quite inspiring. I’ve been mulling over my feelings about Dutton’s bookstore’s […]
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