This Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the CUAA Journalism Chapter and the Journalism Student Association will present a panel discussion, “Stories from the front: staying safe while getting the story.” This promises to be an interesting look at war reporting, in spite of the fact that I’ll be moderating. I’ve included all the details below and hope people will …
Mar 28, 2008
Mar 25, 2008
With five games left to play…
I was in a Purolator location today to send my (dead) MacBook off to the warranty company. The guy behind the counter saw my Habs hat and said Stéphane Quintal had recently been in the store.
“He told me we wouldn’t beat the Devils,” the guy said, relaying Quintal’s ill-fated prediction from a couple of weeks before.
Quintal was wrong. The experts …
Mar 25, 2008
Surveillance and screen envy in the office
As an editor noted in an email to me yesterday, Monday’s Life section in the Globe And Mail was something of a “Silverman Show.” I wrote two features in addition my usual Monday Office column for the paper, which means my name was pretty much splashed on every page. Apologies.
The first feature was about the supposed productivity benefits of giving …
Mar 7, 2008
TELUS is trying to buy my love
I received a pretty little white box in the mail today from TELUS, my cellphone service provider.
“Happy Anniversary,” it said on top.
What anniversary?
I could have sworn I’d signed up in August all those years ago. Had I forgotten our special moment? I worried that TELUS would get mad and deny me service if it found out about my thoughtlessness. I …
Mar 5, 2008
The Gazette’s new hyperlocal website and the importance of moral rights
Thanks to Roberto Rocha, I just learned that The Gazette will soon be launching a hyperlocal website for the West Island of Montreal. Steve Faguy also has a post up about it.
The site is in “late beta testing” and anyone can visit and sign-up. In general, I think this is a step in the right direction for the paper. The …
Mar 3, 2008
CBC Documentary Airing This Week
A few years ago, I began working on a story about people who enter and win contests at a surprising rate. I eventually sold an article to Saturday Night magazine, but the publication folded before the piece appeared. Fortunately, I soon met Montreal film producer Alan Handel and pitched him the idea of turning the concept into a documentary film. …