rabble.ca's staff blog

rabble staff's picture

This is rabble.ca's staff blog. Visit this blog regularly for updates about rabble, and comments and observations from staff members, with occasional visits by board members and volunteers. Our staff blog is represented by our website "mascot" Ruckus, the sock monkey, who joined us in 2006. Ruckus cheers us on through fundraising campaigns and membership drives, and reminds us to keep perspective in the midst of the challenges of running an independent media website.

Murray Dobbin joins rabble as guest Senior Contributing Editor

| May 28, 2009

Veteran freelance journalist, author, broadcaster and community activist Murray Dobbin has joined rabble.ca as a guest Senior Contributing Editor, rabble.ca announced today.  rabble.ca is Canada's most popular source of independent news and views and features original news, opinion, book reviews, podcasts and live and pre-recorded video exploring issues facing Canadians.

Dobbin is a board member and researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives who has written five studies for the centre including examinations of charter schools and "Ten Tax Myths." Murray has been a columnist for the Financial Post and Winnipeg Free Press and contributes op ed pieces to the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and other Canadian dailies.  He is the author of five books and is a Senior Advisor to the Rideau Institute on International Affairs. He writes a column for TheTyee.ca which is also published in rabble.


"rabble is thrilled to have a journalist of Murray Dobbin's caliber join our editorial team and help us to expand our national coverage," said rabble Publisher Kim Elliott.

"Murray Dobbin is the first Guest Editor at rabble and we plan to introduce other notable Canadians as guest editors in the future," said rabble board President Duncan Cameron.   

"It is important that rabble is a place where we can go beyond critique and offer workable alternatives," said Dobbin.  ""I look forward to working with the whole dedicated team as rabble continues its growth".

rabble.ca
is in its 9th year of providing 100% free news content to Canadians.  rabble is a non-profit, community supported organization.

Advertising

embedded_video

Comments

Login or register to post comments