The Kama Sutra of Journalism

By at 5 December, 2008, 12:13 pm

There is a story told by veteran movie producer Saul Zaentz the punch line of which is that producing movies is like the Kama Sutra – there are 10,000 ways to get screwed (he used a saltier expression) and each one is different. Although much of the focus of the economic downturn tsunami hitting journalism […]

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IAN BROWN PROFILE

By 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 […]

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IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STATE OF JOURNALISM

By 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……

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MUST READ: “The boy in the Moon” by Ian Brown

By at 8 May, 2008, 2:39 pm

Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist who has won about every award there is to win in Canada. He is on staff at The Globe and Mail in Toronto where he lives. Earlier in the year Ian wrote a long series, “The boy in the moon,” about his severely disabled son Walker.It is a moving […]

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MUST READ: “The boy in the Moon” by Ian Brown

By at 8 May, 2008, 2:39 pm

Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist who has won about every award there is to win in Canada. He is on staff at The Globe and Mail in Toronto where he lives. Earlier in the year Ian wrote a long series, “The boy in the moon,” about his severely disabled son Walker.It is a moving […]

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Earl Butz, so long…

By at 5 February, 2008, 12:25 pm

Earl Butz, the former Secretary of Agriculture in the Ford administration, who resigned over racist comments he made aboard a plane trip after the Republican convention, died on Saturday at 98. He also was convicted and did jail time for misstating his speaking income in 1978. Butz’s remarks were reported by John Dean in Rolling […]

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AMAZON / AUDIBLE DEAL: IS EG responsible?

By at 1 February, 2008, 9:24 am

As reported in The New York Times and by Cynthia Turner’s Cynopsis (see quote below), Amazon has purchased Audible for $300 Million.Amazon acquired spoken word digital audio company Audible for $300 million, adding a potential new content provider for its Kindle digital book device. Audible has compiled a catalog of over 80,000 digital programs from […]

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