The Fog of Journalism
From: The Next Big Thing
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"In the fall of 2003, we called in from the field Canada’s most senior foreign correspondent. Joe Schlesinger was nearing the end of a distinguished career covering the world for the CBC. He was a pure reporter who always turned away from opportunities to work a desk in order to stay on the story. A native of Vienna, he was raised in Czechoslovakia before being sent by his parents to England in 1939 as part of a rescue program for Jewish children. His parents were killed in the Holocaust. He had a long career in journalism before joining the CBC in the mid-1960s. On a cool October night we again overfilled our 140-seat theatre, setting up chairs in the wings on the stage as Schlesinger took us into the heart of the story that defined the correspondent’s life — war."
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Joe Schlesinger
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.
