Articles tagged with: journalism
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The award-winning Public Eye Online journalist Sean Holman, joins Joseph Planta from Victoria, to discuss investigative journalism, the HST, Jessica McDonald, and more.
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The director of communications for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former Newsweek correspondent Michael Meyer discusses his new book, The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Scribner, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they talk about the events in eastern Europe twenty years ago in Hungary and throughout the communist bloc that led to the fall of the Wall, Romania and the Ceausescu’s, and the lessons we can apply to today.
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The co-editor of CityCaucus.com, Michael Klassen, returns to the program to talk to Joseph Planta about the future of Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association as the NPA meets for its annual general meeting today, as well he discusses the websites and blogs covering municipal and urban affairs in this area, as well as the eHealth controversy.
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The editor of the Vancouver Observer, veteran journalist Linda Solomon talks to Joseph Planta about her website, journalism, civic engagement, blogs and blogging, and the unique media landscape in Vancouver.
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The political strategist Jonathan Ross discusses his new website CivicScene.ca, the surfeit of political websites and blogs covering municipal affairs in Vancouver, how the current mayor Gregor Robertson and his council are doing, the HST debate in British Columbia, and the Liberal Party of Canada under Michael Ignatieff.
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Blogger (www.ronamaynard.com) and former Chatelaine editor Rona Maynard joins Joseph Planta to discuss books, David Letterman, food, the state of magazines, and Thanksgiving, among other topics.
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University of Michigan Afro-American literature and culture professor Michael Awkward discusses his new book, Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), with Imus in the Morning listener Joseph Planta; they discuss the 2007 firing of talk personality Don Imus over comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team which ignited a firestorm over race, free speech and language in America.
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Graeme McRanor, freelance writer and producer discusses his career as a journalist, modelling, comedy, and his future projects, with Joseph Planta.
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Veteran investigative journalist Terry Gould discusses his new book Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places (Random House, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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John Ibbitson, the Washington columnist and correspondent for The Globe and Mail, discusses his new book, Open and Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama, and Canada Has Stephen Harper (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta, as well as Ed Greenspon’s departure as editor, and Barack Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor.
