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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] |
