Simon Winchester
Richard talks to Simon Winchester at the Brisbane Writers' Festival.
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Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man
Leo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated "The Tech Guy" program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Petaluma, Calif. I don't stalk Laporte. Not in the traditional sense, anyway. Every time the tech-savvy broadcaster checks into a nearby place using ...
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Val McDermid and Jake Adelstein
At the Brisbane Writers Festival, Richard Fidler spoke to two authors who know a bit about writing about crooks - Scottish crime writer Val McDermid has published more than 20 novels, while journalist Jake Adelstein has written his first book, 'Tokyo Vice', about the Japanese Yakuza.
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15 Essential Back to School Podcasts
Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington . With another long hot…
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Apple releases iTunes 10 with Ping social music discovery; available to 160 million iTunes users
Apple today introduced iTunes 10 with Ping, a new music-oriented social network...
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