Author, writer, and audio documentary-maker based in Ottawa, Canada.
I’ve been around for a while.
In the 1980s, I was a staff writer for/freelance contributor to Toronto’s alternative newsweekly, NOW magazine, and also freelanced regularly for a variety of publications including Toronto Life, Canadian Business, the Globe and Mail and others.
In the 1990s, I did a substantial amount of radio work for the CBC, including several multi-hour documentary series for the program Ideas, as well as shorter features for programs like The Inside Track, Open House, the morning and drive-home shows in Ottawa, and network syndication. Starting in 1992, I was Canadian correspondent for Inter-Press Service (IPS), a news agency based in Rome, Italy, primarily serving developing countries. I also continued to freelance for a variety of print publications.
My first book, McLuhan’s Children, was published in 1996, and I’ve continued to write books since then. (The intervals between books seem to be getting longer, while the books themselves have been getting shorter. No matter.)
Since 2000, besides writing books, I’ve had some interesting freelance gigs, such as writing a parenting column for Canadian Family magazine, writing about health issues for the Medical Post, and contributing stories on art to the National Gallery of Canada Magazine. As a communications consultant, meanwhile, I’ve been fortunate enough to snag a wide variety of assignments (speechwriting, feature writing, web copywriting, ghost-writing, etc.) and to work with some terrific people at a range of leading Canadian international development and public interest agencies, and cultural institutions.
Recently, I’ve discovered the flourishing medium of podcasts, which in a tentative way has brought me back to making audio documentaries.
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