Report: Media Summary
The TD National Reading Summit was supported with an ongoing media relations campaign and garnered the following media attention:
Radio:
November 16, 2009: “For the Record: Biblio-therapy”, As it Happens, CBC Radio, available online at http://www.cbc.ca/radioshows/AS_IT_HAPPENS/20091116.shtml
Print:
November 8, 2009: “Crusade for copyright-free literacy” by Vit Wagner, Toronto Star, also available online at http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/722456–crusade-for-copyright-free-literacy
November 13, 2009: “Meet publishers’ enemy No. 1: Cory Doctorow” by John Barber, Globe and Mail, also available online at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/meet-publishers-enemy-no-1-cory-doctorow/article1362457/
November 17, 2009: “Copy fight” by Mark Medley, National Post, also available online at http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2230471
November 19, 2009: “A Culture of Readers: Dispatches from the National Reading Summit” by May Jeong, The Varsity, also available online at http://thevarsity.ca/articles/23066
Online magazines:
October 16, 2009: “National Reading Summit planned for November” by Alison Postra, Quill & Quire Omni, http://www.quillandquire.com/google/article.cfm?article_id=10952
November 13, 2009: “National Reading Summit kicks off in Toronto” by Zoe Whittall, Quill & Quire Omni, http://www.quillandquire.com/google/article.cfm?article_id=11002
Blogs:
October 5, 2009: Tea Time at Annick Press, “TD National Reading Summit: November 12 & 13”
http://annickpressblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/td-national-reading-summit-nov-12-13.html
October 5, 2009: Boing Boing, “Canadian national reading summit Toronto Nov 12-13”
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/05/canadian-national-re.html
October 23, 2009: The Dewey Divas and the Dudes, “TD National Reading Summit”
http://deweydivas.blogspot.com/2009/10/td-national-reading-summit.html
November 10, 2009: Talking with Tundra, “TD National Reading Summit”
http://tundrabooks.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/td-national-reading-summit/
November 13, 2009: Quillblog, “Cory Doctorow at Toronto’s National Reading Summit”
http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/13/cory-doctorow-at-torontos-national-reading-summit/
November 13, 2009: Boing Boing, “Science of Fiction”
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/13/science-of-fiction.html
November 13, 2009: Boing Boing “Bibliotherapy for traumatized kids”
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/13/bibliotherapy-for-tr.html
November 19, 2009: On Fiction, “National Reading Summit Report” (Raymond Mar)
http://www.onfiction.ca/2009/11/national-reading-summit-report.html
