Adrienne Macintosh

Which Way Did He Go?

Which Way Did He Go?

Just who is Matthew Fraser anyway? Where did he come from? And how did he land that job? On the trail of the National Post's elusive editor-in-chief

The search for the real Matthew Fraser began last September with a phone call to the editor-in-chief’s office at the National Post. Fraser had left a shallow footprint in media circles up to his surprise appointment, at age 44, to the Post’s top newsroom job four months earlier. Nobody knew much about this guy who […]

 Adrienne Macintosh

Copywrong

Copywrong

Does the publisher or author hold the right to secondary publication?

Heather Robertson, Mary Soderstrom and Jim Carroll all tell similar stories. In the early 1990s, they searched online databases and were shocked when they found their own articles. No one had asked their permission or given them extra money to put their work in a database. They felt cheated. The publishers were making a profit […]