• Game Face: The Media Training Playbook - 19 Cautionary Tales, a self-published book by Toronto public relations consultant and former journalist Bodine Williams. Screenshot by J-Source.

    Journalism, public relations and the author in between

    By Erin Leite     Game Face: The Media Training Playbook - 19 Cautionary Tales, a self-published book by Toronto public relations consultant and former journalist Bodine Williams, brings two seemingly similar but often clashing professions together. It lays out the dos and don’ts of interviewing for the people answering the questions, and has a lot…
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    New book about investigation of Jian Ghomeshi needs more introspection

    Kevin Donovan, Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation. Goose Lane Editions, 2016. 232 pages, $19.95. By Dan Rowe, Books Editor Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation by Toronto Star reporter Kevin Donovan serves, first and foremost, as a reminder, if one is still needed, of accusations of monstrously harassing behavior in Ghomeshi’s personal and professional life.…

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    “Crash to Paywall” doesn’t offer any new insight into shrinking newsrooms

    Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Paperback, 320 pages, $32.95. By Marc Edge Looking for insight into the ongoing crisis in newspapering by reading news reports and commentary has been fruitless for most non-economists, as evidenced by the latest round of layoffs and consolidation, which only…