A collective of independent, experimental, and production-rich podcasts have raised over half a million dollars from 20,000 people in under a month. You want to talk about the future of radio? You should be talking about this.
“If your parents are letting you live in the basement, you might as well go out and do something for free to put the experience on your CV.”
And now for the National Research Council’s official time signal.
A look at how the stories we tell and the images we show morph and adapt online. From photos of events that never happened, to crafting that irresistible headline that you just have to click on. The push and pull of truth, fiction, and misattribution in a viral culture.
Heer Jeet, who inspired my post on Twitter essays the other day, writes a Twitter essay about the Twitter essay: “The twitter essay is not just a regular essay with numbered sentences broken up into tweets. It is a form with own rules.” Worth a read. If the Twitter essay is a form (and I’d […]
Good discussion between two political leaders from Prince George and Prince Rupert on the reasons First Nations don’t get involved in municipal politics, and what needs to change to increase interest.
Question posed by the show’s Twitter page, with lots of people weighing in. As best I can tell Wab Kinew, Margaret Atwood and Jann Arden are leading the list. So is Norm Macdonald who has expressed interest and would definitely be, well, interesting. I’ll back Kinew, Atwood, and Arden, for sure. Some other names I’d […]
Jesse Brown, and the courage of journalism.
Even if we are, as he says, tired of hearing about this hour after hour, Michael Enright’s take on this week’s Ghomeshi revelations is worth a listen. Comforting to still have his perspective after all this.
“It is really a two-step career journey, in the writing world. Writing, then editing… If you want to get regular promotions and raises, you will, for the most part, accept the fact that your path takes you away from writing and into editing, in some form. The number of pure writing positions that offer salaries as high as top editing positions is vanishingly small.”
“The Times reviews almost every movie that comes out (I enjoy reading their reviews of part 6 of some slasher series) and even though I’ve never seen Breaking Bad I can tell you pretty much everything about it because of the number of stories I’ve read. Radio not so much.”
I’m doing the newsletter now. I like it.
I heard rumours that in the 1920s, there was an African-American actor who had run a business in downtown Prince George. With a bit of delving I discovered Charles Sagar, an pioneer of the African-American theatre movement who later came to Prince George to cut hair on a floating barge. He also fought back against a city council who ordered police to clean up “N******town”. Here’s what I found out.
After four years of eating at every non-franchise restaurant in Prince George, a local blogger is singling out the best in the bunch.
This can’t be the end of radio…. can it?
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