MY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
I am a weekly columnist for Business in Vancouver, part of the Lodestar (formerly Glacier) Media publications,
western Canada's largest chain.
I am a columnist and B.C. correspondent for TheHub.ca.
(I also contributed a biweekly column to Glacier's North Shore News.)
I currently teach Media Law as an Adjunct Professor at the
Graduate School of Journalism, Writing and Media
at University of British Columbia.
I am a Special Advisor at Fulmer and Company.
I serve as a Director on the Vancouver Opera board.
I was recently Chair of KidSafe Project Society.
I was the Publisher and Executive Editor of Business in Vancouver Media Group,
which was then publishing in print and online at biv.com,
with a portfolio of more than a dozen business magazines,
dozens of staged events each year,
and a daily podcast that I co-hosted.
I was the Vice-President, Editorial, for Glacier Media, the parent company of BIV,
and worked with editors to oversee standards and practices for the chain.
In 2014 I ran for Mayor of Vancouver
under the banner of the Non-Partisan Association.
Before my time at BIV,
I was the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Self-Counsel Press.
I am the former CBC Ombudsman of English Services,
and the former Executive Director of the Organization of News Ombudsmen.
I have held the leading editorial roles
at CTV News, The Hamilton Spectator and Southam News.
I was the founding Executive Editor of National Post,
Managing Editor of The Vancouver Sun,
Ottawa Bureau Chief and General News Editor at The Canadian Press,
and a founding host on CBC Newsworld, among other media roles.
My social networking includes activity on
X, Facebook, Bluesky, Linkedin and Instagram.
In the rear-view mirror digitally are themediamanager.com and rockzombies.us.
New music remains a passion. For nine years,
I was Canadian editor of Billboard Magazine,
and for six years before that, Canadian editor of CashBox Magazine.
My hobbies are running, goaltending and golf.
I was born in Toronto, raised by a heroic single mother,
and discovered in 2019 through DNA testing a sister,
who then found our father, then found a brother.
I am married, with two children, one stepchild, and two grandchildren.
I have a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University, the renamed Ryerson University.
I have lived in Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Port Perry and Vancouver.
I live in the Caulfeild neighbourhood of West Vancouver.
I am a weekly columnist for Business in Vancouver, part of the Lodestar (formerly Glacier) Media publications,
western Canada's largest chain.
I am a columnist and B.C. correspondent for TheHub.ca.
(I also contributed a biweekly column to Glacier's North Shore News.)
I currently teach Media Law as an Adjunct Professor at the
Graduate School of Journalism, Writing and Media
at University of British Columbia.
I am a Special Advisor at Fulmer and Company.
I serve as a Director on the Vancouver Opera board.
I was recently Chair of KidSafe Project Society.
I was the Publisher and Executive Editor of Business in Vancouver Media Group,
which was then publishing in print and online at biv.com,
with a portfolio of more than a dozen business magazines,
dozens of staged events each year,
and a daily podcast that I co-hosted.
I was the Vice-President, Editorial, for Glacier Media, the parent company of BIV,
and worked with editors to oversee standards and practices for the chain.
In 2014 I ran for Mayor of Vancouver
under the banner of the Non-Partisan Association.
Before my time at BIV,
I was the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Self-Counsel Press.
I am the former CBC Ombudsman of English Services,
and the former Executive Director of the Organization of News Ombudsmen.
I have held the leading editorial roles
at CTV News, The Hamilton Spectator and Southam News.
I was the founding Executive Editor of National Post,
Managing Editor of The Vancouver Sun,
Ottawa Bureau Chief and General News Editor at The Canadian Press,
and a founding host on CBC Newsworld, among other media roles.
My social networking includes activity on
X, Facebook, Bluesky, Linkedin and Instagram.
In the rear-view mirror digitally are themediamanager.com and rockzombies.us.
New music remains a passion. For nine years,
I was Canadian editor of Billboard Magazine,
and for six years before that, Canadian editor of CashBox Magazine.
My hobbies are running, goaltending and golf.
I was born in Toronto, raised by a heroic single mother,
and discovered in 2019 through DNA testing a sister,
who then found our father, then found a brother.
I am married, with two children, one stepchild, and two grandchildren.
I have a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University, the renamed Ryerson University.
I have lived in Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Port Perry and Vancouver.
I live in the Caulfeild neighbourhood of West Vancouver.