Annotated version of Gay Talese’s Joe DiMaggio profile: Grantland
Grantland has published an annotated version of Gay Talese’s much-loved Esquire profile of Joe DiMaggio.
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Charles Oberdorf remembered
The National Magazine Awards Foundation has a lovely compilation of quotes up about Charles Oberdorf from June 2008, when Oberdorf was presented with the NMAF’s award for outstanding achievement.
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CBC vs. Quebecor: an all-out war?
While Hubert Lacroix, CBC’s president and chief executive officer, has denied CBC and Quebecor are duking it out, the Toronto Star suggests otherwise.
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Was Ford telling the truth about 22 minutes ambush?
Now that the clip of Mary Walsh playing Marg Delahunty has been released some are wondering if Toronto mayor Rob Ford told the truth about the stunt.
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Ford and the 22 Minutes joke: Was it funny?
Well, Toronto mayor Rob Ford didn't think so.
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Ezra Levant reports on Occupy Toronto; protestors release unedited video
Ezra Levant's report on Occupy Toronto was, perhaps unsurprisingly, pretty negative.
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Why not occupy newsrooms?: David Carr
New York Times journalist David Carr has a question for us: Why not occupy newsrooms? If bonuses are out of control on Wall Street, he writes, they're certainly off the charts for most mega media companies. He writes: [node:ad] The optics of the bonuses are far worse than the practical impact. Newspapers are asking their…
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Online video journalism: 10 common mistakes
UK film maker and new media journalism Adam Westbrook has some advice for online video journalists: don't make your film boring, technically poor, and amateurish.
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Has the ethics committee given Quebecor a bully pulpit?
The Canadian Media Guild certainly thinks so. In a recent release, the Guild, which counts CBC and six other media organizations as its members, accused the parliamentary ethics committee of giving Sun News head Karl Peladeau a public forum to slam one of its biggest competitors, the CBC. And that's not all, says the Guild:…
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Ad Age asks top U.S. media folk: Got hope?
Earlier this month, Ad Age asked top media editors, owners, and thinkers in the U.S. why we should be hopeful for the industry. Chris Anderson, David Remnick, Emily Bell and others answered, all saying the pessimists out there have it wrong. Remnick said it opened doors to new audiences; Anderson said it was an opportunity,…