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Cool Mules
''Cool Mules'' is a podcast by Canadaland about a cocaine-smuggling ring led by Slava Pastuk that operated within Vice Media. It won a National Magazine Awards Gold Award for best podcast in 2021. Production Cool Mules was produced and co-written by Jesse Brown; Kasia Mychajlowycz was the host, reporter and producer, Jonathan Goldsbie did research, Nathan Burley did the music, and Chandra Bulucon did the sound design and mixing. It was released in six parts, the first of which was released on March 2, 2020. Synopsis The podcast tells the story of Toronto-based Yaroslav Pastukhov/Slava Pastuk, a Vice Media music editor who goes by the pseudonym of Slava P. The story takes placed between 2014 and 2016, in which Slava P recruits younger Vice employees into an international cocaine-smuggling ring. Themes in the podcast include the gig-economy, worker exploitation, and the line between journalists reporting news and creating news. Critical reception In 2021, Cool Mules wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasia Mychajlowycz
Kasia Mychajlowycz is a journalist and podcaster who hosted Canadaland's ''Cool Mules'' 2020 podcast. Education Mychajlowycz has an master's of arts degree from the School of Journalism at Ryerson University and is a graduate of the University of Toronto School of Journalism. In Winter 2012, Mychajlowycz was the online story editor for Ryerson Review of Journalism. Career Mychajlowycz joined ''Canadaland'' in May 2019 and worked as a senior producer. In January 2021, ''Broadcast Dialogue'' announced she was moving to ''The Globe & Mail'' as a senior podcast producer. Mychajlowycz has previously worked in Canada and the United States in as a producer at ''MTV'', ''The Atlantic'', and at ''WNYC.'' She has also worked on the Freakonomics Podcasts. In 2021, Mychajlowycz won the University of Toronto School of Journalism's ''Best Podcast: Arts and Culture'' and a two honourable mentions her work on the ''Canadaland'' podcast and ''The White Saviors'' podcast. Also in 2021, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadaland
Canadaland is a Canadian company that operates a news site and a network of podcasts. It was founded by Jesse Brown in 2013. Canadaland has produced podcasts on Canadian media, art and culture, cooking, medicine, and politics. Podcasts include the original ''Canadaland'' podcast, ''Commons,'' ''Cool Mules, The White Saviors,'' and ''Thunder Bay''. Podcast production has been funded partly through advertisements, and since 2014, through the crowdfunding site, Patreon. A year after the podcast was launched, it was attracting about 10,000 listeners every week. By late 2018, Canadaland's five podcasts reached 100,000 weekly listeners. In 2020, the podcasts were downloaded over 9 million times in 2020, making it one of the most popular podcasts in Canada. Podcasts Canadaland podcast was launched by Jesse Brown in the autumn of 2013. By 2015, it had become a "podcast network and a news organization with staff". The original Canadaland podcast covered predominantly Canadian media a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slava Pastuk
Yaroslav Pastukhov (born June 1990), more commonly known as Slava Pastuk, is a Ukrainian-born Canadian author, former prisoner, drug smuggler and music editor. He made national news in Canada in 2017 after drug smugglers that he recruited were arrested. He was arrested in 2019 and sentenced to nine years. He was released in April 2022 for Day Parole. Early life Born as Yaroslav Pastukhov in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 1990. In 1994, he moved with his mother from Ukraine to Canada, initially staying in the Ukrainian Mission on College Street, Toronto before moving to the Greek Town area. A few years later he and his mother moved to Barrie, where he attended the St. Joan of Arc High School, and worked part time at the local Shoppers Drug Mart where he also stole perfume and cologne to order. Career and adult life Upon moving to Toronto in 2011, Pastuk worked interviewing rappers for a YouTube show called "First Encounters" for local blog hustleGRL, run by Karla Moy. He was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice Media
Vice Media Group LLC is an American-Canadian digital media and broadcasting company. , the Vice Media Group included five main business areas: VICE.com (digital content); VICE STUDIOS (film and TV production) VICE TV (also known as VICELAND); VICE News; and VIRTUE (an agency offering creative services). It was cited as the largest independent youth media company in the world, with 35 offices. Developing from ''Vice'' magazine, originally based in Montreal and co-founded by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes, Vice expanded primarily into youth and young adult–focused digital media. This included online content verticals and related web series, the news division Vice News, a film production studio, and a record label among other properties. Vice re-located to New York City in 2001. Vice Media originally broadcast their news programs on HBO, which broadcast the Emmy-winning weekly documentary series ''Vice'', which premiered in April 2013. ''Vice'' features segment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Media Awards Foundation
The National Media Awards Foundation (NMAF) is a Canadian charity whose mission is to recognize excellence in the content and creation of Canadian magazines and Canadian digital publishing through two annual awards programs: the National Magazine Awards (NMAs) and the Digital Publishing Awards (DPAs). Both events—The National Magazine Awards gala and the Digital Publishing Awards soirée—take place each June in Toronto. Each year the NMAF relies on over 100 volunteer judges to evaluate the entries and award gold and silver winners in the NMA written, visual, integrated and special categories and in the various DPA categories. A 20-member board of directors mostly drawn from the Canadian media industry governs the NMAF. As of 2022, the president of the board of directors of the NMAF is Melony Ward, publisher of ''Canada’s History'' and ''Kayak''. History In 1976 Andrew MacFarlane, Dean of Journalism at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), was trying to revive the univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Brown (journalist)
Jesse Benjamin Brown is a Canadian journalist, media personality, and businessperson. In 2013, he founded the ''Canadaland'' podcast that grew into a podcasting company. Brown's 2014 investigative reports with Kevin Donovan, published by the ''Toronto Star'', focussed on various women who claimed to have endured non-consensual violent conduct and workplace sexual harassment from Canadian radio and television personality Jian Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi was later acquitted of all charges at his trial. Early life Born to a Canadian Jewish family and raised in Toronto, Brown attended Northern Secondary School. He got his first experience with the media at the age of sixteen, interning at local radio station Q107's promotions department through his high school's co-op program. At seventeen, inspired by punk zines and "too many" viewings of '' Pump Up the Volume'', Brown started ''Punch'', an underground student newspaper that raised a commotion by running a piece evaluating the school's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Goldsbie
Jonathan Goldsbie is a Canadian journalist, and currently the news editor for Canadaland. He has previously worked as a performance artist and as columnist at ''The National Post'', '' NOW Newspaper'' and ''Torontoist.'' He won a National Magazine Award in 2021. Career Goldsbie was previously a member of Toronto’s Public Space Committee, and has worked as a columnist for ''The National Post'', '' NOW Newspaper'' and ''Torontoist''. At ''Now Newspaper'', Goldsbie was the chair of Unifor union-led employee bargaining committee. He is well known for his Twitter account @goldsbie, where he Tweets about Toronto politics. In 2012, Goldsbie organized the performance art piece ''Route 501 Revisited'' as part the Free Fall theatre festival, in which he rented a street car and invited anyone to take Toronto's 501 Streetcar Route, in silence, but with Twitter conversation. In 2022, Goldsbie discovered and Tweeted about 2015 to 2021 homophobic social media posts by newly appointed T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gig-economy
Gig workers are independent contractors, online platform workers, contract firm workers, on-call workers, and temporary workers. Gig workers enter into formal agreements with on-demand companies to provide services to the company's clients. In many countries, the legal classification of gig workers is still being debated, with companies classifying their workers as "independent contractors", while organized labor advocates have been lobbying for them to be classified as "employees", which would legally require companies to provide the full suite of employee benefits like time-and-a-half for overtime, paid sick time, employer-provided health care, bargaining rights, and unemployment insurance, among others. In 2020, the voters in California approved 2020 California Proposition 22, which created a third worker classification whereby gig-worker-drivers are classified as contractors but get some benefits, such as minimum wage, mileage reimbursement, and others. Etymology of ''gig'' ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CrimeReads
Literary Hub is a daily literary website that launched in 2015 by Grove Atlantic president and publisher Morgan Entrekin, American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame editor Terry McDonell, and Electric Literature founder Andy Hunter. Content Focused on literary fiction and nonfiction, ''Literary Hub'' publishes personal and critical essays, interviews, and book excerpts from over 100 partners, including independent presses (New Directions Publishing, Graywolf Press), large publishers (Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf), bookstores (Book People, Politics and Prose), non-profits (PEN America), and literary magazines (''The Paris Review'', n+1). The mission of ''Literary Hub'' is to be the "site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books." The website has been featured in ''The Washington Post'', ''The Guardian'', and ''Poets & Writers''. In 2019, Literary Hub launched their new blog, ''The Hub'', alongside LitHub Radio, a "network of bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Trips
''Bad Trips'' is a 2022 non-fiction book by Slava Pastuk. In the book Pastuk documents cocaine smuggling while working as a music editor at Vice Media. Production ''Bad Trips: How I Went from VICE Reporter to International Drug Smuggler'' is co-written by Slava Pastuk and Brian Whitney. Whitney will collect all the royalties for the book. It is published by Dundurn Press. It was acquired and edited by Russell Smith. Author Pastuk's full name is Yuroslav Pastukhov. Synopsis The book documents Pastuk's life, that started with his birth in Ukraine, and emigration with his mother to Canada. He lived in Barrie, before moving to Toronto at the age of 19 for a marketing job, that he then quit to work for Noisey Canada, part of Vice Media. At Vice, he reports being encouraged to use cocaine and doing so. He started DJing as a side job and selling marijuana to people he met on Grindr. In 2015, his drug dealing escalated and he earned $20,000 from helping a drug cartel smuggle cocai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Post
The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only.National Post to eliminate Monday print edition , June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017 The newspaper is distributed in the provinces of , |
Canadian Podcasts
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
