The nominees for the Canadian National Magazine Awards were revealed last night and I received a nod for my work on Report on Business magazine’s Corporate Survival Guide, which was published last fall. It’s my first NMA nomination and I’m extremely pleased. I’m also happy that my friends Martin Patriquin (Maclean’s) and Giancarlo La Giorgia (freelance) received nominations. The awards …
Apr 30, 2008
Jan 10, 2008
Bad news, good news
Juan Antonio Giner writes a fantastic blog about innovations in newspapers. He’s the founder of the INNOVATION Media Consulting Group, which does amazing work redesigning and reimagining newspapers. I read the blog because he often posts images and page layouts of the company’s work. They never fail to impress. But in a somewhat off-topic post from today, he points to …
Jan 5, 2008
The value of engaging citizens in the news process
Though I was involved with Assignment Zero, the first project undertaken by NewAssignment.net, I have to confess that I’ve been a bit out of touch with how NewAssignment has evolved. But thanks to a Tweet by the ever-engaged Matthew Ingram, I was directed to a post by David Cohn on the NewAssignment website. I was a fan of Dave’s during …