Be Interesting, Or Else
From: The Next Big Thing
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"A decade after he gave Canadian journalism a kick in the backside as the founding editor of Conrad Black’s brash National Post newspaper, Ken Whyte came to campus. Most recently, as editor of Maclean’s magazine, he had been reviving the tired newsweekly and would soon be named president of Rogers Publishing. During more than two decades in the journalism business in Canada, Whyte was called many things, but boring wasn’t one of them. He is a senior fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto, a governor of the Donner Canada Foundation, and a director of the Peter Munk Public Policy Foundation. He is also the author of a biography of William Randolph Hearst, a man who also understood that there’s no point to this enterprise if nobody’s reading."
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Ken Whyte
A journalist, lecturer, and bestselling writer, Philip Lee began his career as an investigative reporter on Canada’s east coast. Restigouche emerged from his long-standing interest in rivers and the people who love them. His first book, Home Pool: The Fight to Save the Atlantic Salmon, grew out of his award-winning reporting on the decline of the Atlantic salmon. Lee is also the author of Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna, a national bestseller, and Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man, which was long-listed for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. A professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Lee developed the Dalton Camp lecture series, broadcast annually by CBC Radio’s Ideas and edited The Next Big Thing (a published collection from the lectures). When he is not writing and teaching, Lee spends as much time as he can following the currents of rivers.
