Ambient music for work
Yeah, I think probably 2017 will have more work music.
Fresh approaches to skepticism
The skeptic social movement has been a big part of my social and intellectual world. In…
Journalism is the business of influence
Good journalists do what they do because they care. They have interests. The organizations that employ…
White supremacy, doing journalism, and the explanatory comma
This particular Code Switch episode on the explanatory comma is itself a kind of extended explanatory…
Hyperlinking in Canadian journalism (Case study, IPBES report)
If news orgs are serious about being good partners in mitigating misinformation, they need to link…
Happy Halloween
Halloween in Vicwest is quiet but nice. Some great costumes on the street last night and…
Idea: Journalism is a convenience store
I like to imagine different metaphors for journalism. Consider that the press is a giant inertia…
The stickiness of so-called “reverse racism”
When an idea is “intuitive” but also steeped in a culture war we have a heightened…