Press Coverage
Selected Press for Exposure:
We're star material - With YouTube-style TV, CBC gives you creative Exposure, by
MICHAEL MURRAY - The Ottawa Citizen - August 04, 2007
Excerpt: Essentially, Exposure is a TV ad that asks us to go to a website, where we might then watch the unfiltered content for ourselves. In what could be seen as a tipping point in the broadcast world, the television show, both artistically and commercially, is subservient to its website.
The audience for Exposure provides the content for the show, which is then broadcast back to them for consumption. In this way, the creators of the program generate a show at little or no cost to themselves.
The CBC has infused a democratic idea like Speaker's Corner with an artistic sensibility and purpose. In so doing, Exposure gives us a glimpse not only of the future of Canada's video and film scene, but of the country itself. Watching, we get to absorb myriad visions and voices, ones that encompass the entire country, and the ethnic and cultural scope that resides within. This is an obvious virtue, and a welcome relief from the audience-tested homogeneity of Hollywood that, for whatever reason, can't appreciate...
As On the Lot fades out, directors look to Exposure, by
ANDREW RYAN - The Globe and Mail - July 27, 2007
New CBC show, website seek Internet auteurs, by
JERED STUFFCO - Canadian Press - July 26, 2007
New CBC show lets viewers vote for best online film submission, by
MARK ANDREWS - The Vancouver Sun - July 21, 2007
Canada's CBC Launches 'Canadian Idol' for Online Video Directors, by
STAFF WRITER - Marketing Vox
Selected Press for the NFB - Filmmaker-in-Residence Project:
Story Excerpts: The Globe and Mail calls the website “engrossing…”, The National Post calls the project “Remarkable”. Art Threat’s Ezra Winton says it’s “One of the most refreshing, engaging and political pieces I have seen on the internet”, US-based Pulp-Portal says that the website “Almost made us want to move to Canada.”
Website Review: The NFB's Filmmaker-in-Residence, by
STAFF WRITER - The Pulp - February 11, 2007
Website Review: The NFB's Filmmaker-in-Residence, by
EZRA WINTON - Art Threat Magazine - March 3, 2007
NFB website wins news and information award, by
GUY DIXON - The Globe and Mail - May 31, 2007
Selected Press for Zed:
Zed got a lot of press in the years after its initial launch. Here are some of the nice things critics said about the show. The Globe and Mail asked, "Who ever thought CBC could be so hip?". Shift Magazine
stated, "One of the most impressive of CBC offerings so far is ZeD", while the Vancouver Sun chimed, "Almost everything about ZeD is exactly right."
Gore's CURRENT TV Seeks Northern Insights, by
NIALL MCKAY - Wired Magazine - April 14, 2005
Selected Press for CBC Radio 3:
Bouncing Off the Satellites - The Story of CBC Radio 3, Possibly the World's Best Station., by
WILL DOIG - Nerve Magazine - October 10, 2006
The Once Revolutionary CBC Radio 3, by
STEPHAN PUFF - The Ology - October 08, 2006
CBC plans to beam up Radio 3, by
ALEXANDRA GILL - The Globe and Mail - February 11, 2005
Indie Music and Beyond, by
ALEXANDRA GILL - The Globe and Mail - February 11, 2005
"CBC Radio 3 has been hailed as a model for the future of broadcasting".
Recasting Radio 3 for the iPod crowd, by
IVOR TOSSELL - The Globe and Mail - February 11, 2005
Book - Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages, by
By MINDY MCADAMS
Brave New Waves - The CBC brings Canadian independent culture to the masses, by
DEBORAH SHENFIELD - McGill Daily - April 11th, 2005
CBC Radio walks on wild side, by
MURRAY WHYTE - Toronto Star - May 07, 2004
Pump up the volume, hue and brightness, CBC Radio 3 fills gap, by
By NICK MCCABE-LOKOS - Toronto Star - August 23, 2003
The Future of CBC, by
DAPHNE LAVERS - Broadcast Dialogue - 2003
