Podcasters meet broadcasters
So a mere two days after I write this – “CBC Radio is wonderfully, fantastically open to freelancers” – Tod Maffin announces this: CBC Radio, Canada’s public broadcaster, is developing a weekly on-air program about the blogosphere and...Stock up on Globe and Mail news now. Tomorrow, it’s back behind the buyerwall.
Check it out: The Globe and Mail makes online content free for the day, refunds subscribers. Ah, but that wasn’t the headline on the front page. There, it read “Globe and Mail makes online content free, refunds subscribers.” Talk about yer dashed...Taking our ball and going home
Never get into a pissing match with people who buy ink by the barrel, the saying goes. In other words, you can’t win an argument with the media because, well, they’re the media, and they get to frame the argument. But maybe there’s another option:...Fair and balanced, defined
Fox News’ London bureau chief Scott Norvell explains what they mean by “balanced”: Even we at Fox News manage to get some lefties on the air occasionally, and often let them finish their sentences before we club them to death and feed the scraps to...The broadcast journalist’s new tool: Skype
CBC Radio is wonderfully, fantastically open to freelancers. But one of the harder aspects of working with them is their understandable reluctance to use phone interview clips. Little wonder: phone conversations sound awful, and nearly always have some irritating...
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
