Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. Tom Rachman commentdevoteeditor share on social
My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting. Tom Rachman agencycareerdeep Change image and share on social
Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work. Tom Rachman arthardmuse Change image and share on social
The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people. Tom Rachman fictionpeopleread Change image and share on social
I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal. Tom Rachman battleconvictionennoble Change image and share on social
When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out. Tom Rachman 1990sbusinessenter Change image and share on social
The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free. Tom Rachman accustomcontentfree share on social
I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was. Tom Rachman familyprecociousreader Change image and share on social
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel. Tom Rachman crumpledustbinfill share on social
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it. Tom Rachman backcareerfilm Change image and share on social
