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“Sometimes, watching him, it’s like looking at the moon: You see the face of the man in the moon, but you know there’s actually no man there,” Ian Brown writes about his son, Walker, in his 2009 memoir, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for his Disabled Son. Walker, who was born with… Continue reading The untouchables

According to Advertising Age, Maxim is joining GQ and Esquire by making its issues available as an app for your iPod Touch or iPhone. The GQ and Esquire app each cost $2.99 per copy. With that price, and the convenience of not having to stuff one more item in my bag, I’m definitely interested. Imagine… Continue reading A must-have app for your iPod

And some other choice phrases that might describe the snafu the Review team noticed in The Globe and Mail yesterday. The first line of a Report on Business story by Susan Krashinsky reads: “Vancouver’s radio dial is about to get a bit more bolshoy.” The story is about a Russian media group taking over Vancouver… Continue reading F is for Friday

Writing for this blog is no fun. It’s true. As I searched for something to write about journalism or media that wasn’t bleak or depressing, I found my options were slim. Do I opine on the ease of which Reuters’ kills their own stories whenever Obama calls? Or maybe I ought to discuss Prism Magazine, the… Continue reading Journalism: SAVED!

Much has been made of the new Canada Periodical Fund, which Masthead calls the “biggest shake-up” to hit mag-funding in a long, long time. We all had a fun time parsing the politics behind the changes the feds were making to magazine funding: Artsy, small circulation mags were upset to learn that they may get… Continue reading Farm publications rock