Articles tagged with: media
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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 host and curator of Books on the Radio, Sean Cranbury talks to Joseph Planta about the site, his interviews with authors and those in the book trade, his reading habits, and more.
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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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‘Futurologist,’ writer, and social forecaster James Harkin, Director of Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, discusses his book, Lost in Cyburbia: How Life on the Net Has Created a Life of Its Own (Knopf, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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Legendary sports columnist and author Jim Taylor joins Joseph Planta again, this time to discuss his new memoir, “Hello, Sweetheart? Gimmie Rewrite!” My Life in the Wonderful World of Sports (Harbour, 2008), a look back at his storied career in sports and journalism.
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The Vancouver Sun’s managing editor and adjunct professor at UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism, Kirk LaPointe joins Joseph Planta to discuss the Sun’s format changes, the state of newspapers and news, as well as the 10th anniversary of the National Post, where he was its founding executive editor.
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Author and journalist Marty Beckerman discusses his new book Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left and the Rabid Right (Disinformation, 2008) and the current state of American politics, the election there and more with Joseph Planta.
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Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias discusses the journalism and media reporting, her work in the Star, women’s issues and politics, the current election campaigns in Canada and the United States, and more with Joseph Planta.
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Martin Stringer, one of the best and recognised reporters in Ottawa, talks to Joseph Planta about travelling the country and being on the campaign hustings, profiling key battleground ridings for CPAC (the Cable Public Affairs Channel).
