Category Archives: Journalism

Media watchdogs and all that

Today I found out I won third place in the Consumer Magazine: Investigations and Analysis category at the 2008 AEJMC awards for my Review story on Harvey Cashore. It’s nice to know people read my 6,000 word self-indulgent (me, not Harvey) opus on a then-unknown CBC journalist, yeah? Since then he’s been featured on J-Source [...]
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Career moves

The fine boys at Stuck in the City were kind enough to give me a soapbox, which I’m always eager to stand on, to yap about my band photography. You can read it on their blog, and peruse some of the better/stranger photos I’ve taken in my day. For more, go to Former Transformer. Also, I’m [...]
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China’s Silver Lining

Sophisticated people are honestly trying to do the right thing, in ways official propaganda had not prepared me for. Like England, the United States, Japan, and others before it, China is passing through the environmental-disaster stage of industrialization and beginning to clean up. The difference is that those countries waited until they were rich before [...]
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Globeandmail.com drops paid access to exclusive content

That took long enough…
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The other kind of newspaper war

John Doyle wrote a great column about the reality of newsrooms today, focusing on MTV’s surprisingly not-vapid reality series The Paper, about an award-winning, ego-driven high school newspaper. You can read it here, if you’re one of the poor suckers that actually bought a Globe Insider subscription. (I’ve attached it behind the cut for the [...]
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