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My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if... →
There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter... →
A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article... →
Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper... →
The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's... →
The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in... →
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