Suanne Kelman on ordinary people
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Channel: TVO Docs · 2009 · Education
"Journalism is reaping a harvest it sowed when it stopped paying attention to ordinary people"
Suanne Kelman worked for many years on the CBC radio show Sunday Morning as well as on the flagship program The Journal. She has written for Toronto Life, Toronto, Destinations, R.O.B. Magazine, Chatelaine, Shape and other magazines and newspapers. Before and after joining the School of Journalism at Ryerson University, she produced several documentaries for the CBC radio program Ideas. She is the only member of the School of Journalism ever to have written a gossip column ("The Tatler", for the Globe and Mail). She is the author of "All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life". She contributes regularly to the Literary Review of Canada, serves often as a judge for radio, television and writing awards, lectures on fiction to reading clubs. (Recorded on November 02, 2007)
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