Perplexing. I can’t think of a better word for news from central Canada about the appointment of a new editor-in-chief for the six English language Metro editions published across the country. A little background: until Oct. 28, the editor-in-chief was Dianne Rinehart, who has good journalism credentials, but went to Metro from Homemakers magazine. The [...]
Click To Play Forgive, the quality: this is my first iPhone video and I shot it on the fly. But when the Sinovi Tamburitza Orchestra iz Seattle dropped That’s Alright Mama into the middle of its set of Croatian folk songs, I grabbed what I could. Sinovi was one of three bands that performed Saturday, [...]
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According to tweet cloud, these are the most-used words from my Twitter stream during the past year. There’s nothing particularly surprising there, although I apparently use the word “cool” way too much.
According to the CTV News, the City of Vancouver, which is cutting its spending, will shell out $300,000 for Olympic tickets, and the provincial government, also cutting, is spending $1 million on tickets. And one federal government ministry has spent $447,000 on tickets. These are three of the many governing bodies in the province and [...]
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It’s no secret that newspaper circulation is in long-term decline. It’s also no secret, at least within the business, that newspaper auditing organizations have made a number of moves over the years to: (a) more accurately reflect how many people are buying newspapers (their version); or (b) cover the fact that the decline is continuing [...]
Years ago, when I was a reporter who also did a lot of my own photography, I put aside the camera bag of Olympus bodies and lenses, and spent a week using only a Voigtländer Vito B, with a fixed f3.5 50mm lens, and a handheld light meter. The camera was so primitive, focus wasn’t [...]
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