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paulcrosstoronto’s Podcast
Radio and audio media history, commentary, analysis. Researched, written, hosted and produced by Paul Cross.
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Season 10, Episode 1
On media literacy: an introduction to the No Embargo podcast From October 30, 2026 I'm launching Season 10 of Cross Talk during Media Literacy Week in Canada…
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No Embargo - Introduction
Today: Why are we making No Embargo? Introduction: Trevor Campbell and Paul Cross discuss why we’re making this series No Embargo and how we hope it has value…
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No Embargo - Advance Episode Extra
Today: Remembering September 11, 2001. From September 9, 2026. Trevor Campbell and Paul Cross remember the moment they heard about the tragic events in New…
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No Embargo - Advance Episode 7
Today: Our first grab-bag of current issues including the trade situation, recent by-election outcomes, a shout-out for good news coverage, and a start at…
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No Embargo - Advance Episode 6
Today: Is it a trade war? And how much of it is news? From September 2, 2026. As Canada and the United States struggle to re-negotiate a free trade deal, the…
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Coming soon: No Embargo - Advance Episode 5
We're getting closer to the formal launch of our new podcast series No Embargo. Today: To block -- or not to block -- a data centre From August 5, 2026: Plans…
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Coming soon: No Embargo - Advance Episode 4
As Trevor Campbell and Paul Cross move closer to the full launch of the No Embargo podcast here's your latest taste of what's coming. No Embargo: the podcast…
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Coming Soon: No Embargo - Advance Episode 3
Here's another taste of what's coming soon as Trevor Campbell and Paul Cross prepare to launch No Embargo - the podcast featuring a public relations…
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Coming Soon: No Embargo - Advance Episode 2
Teaser from Trevor Campbell and Paul Cross A news guy and a public relations strategist decode what makes news and why. Media literacy, narrative strategy, and…
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Coming Soon: No Embargo - Advance Episode 1
Coming soon from Trevor Campbell and Paul Cross: No Embargo A news guy and a public relations strategist decode what makes news and why. Media literacy…
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Cross Talk: Season 9, Episode Six
On 25 years of indifference. On the 25th anniversary of a targeted murder of a young Black man by a racist white gang, during a public celebration in a…
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Cross Talk Season 9, Episode Five
On the Passing of a Panther. From January 14, 2026. Exactly 32 years before this date, I sat with a former member of the Black Panthers Party for Self-Defence…
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Cross Talk Season 9, Episode Four
On remembering the Quebec referendum of 1995: I was there. From October 30th, 2025. Thirty years ago, voters in Quebec voted narrowly -- narrowly -- to remain…
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Cross Talk: Season 9, Episode 3
On the radio call-in heard around the world: WWL New Orleans and local radio in times of local crisis. On September 2nd 2005 the mayor of New Orleans phones…
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Cross Talk: Season 9, Episode Two
Forty years ago: Remembering Air India Flight 182. When an Air India jet was bombed over the Atlantic Ocean on June 23rd 1985 hours after taking off from…
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Cross Talk: Season 9, Episode 1
On Air India - in 2025 and 40 years ago. The tragic crash of an Air India jet on June 12, 2025 comes just days before the 40th anniversary of the bombing of an…
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Cross Talk: Season 9 Trailer
From February 13, 2025: In time for World Radio Day. But I'm not focused on the annual tribute to radio today. I'm thinking about the need for better radio in…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season 8, Episode 5
On World Radio Day 2024: A century of radio history - entertaining, informing and educating. From February 13, 2024. Each year I produce an episode of the pod…
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Cross Talk: Season 8, Episode 4
How corporate ownership imperils local radio – and the few voices raised to save it. From February 9, 2024. No company owning radio stations in Canada has ever…
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Cross Talk: Season 8, Episode 3
On getting past a terrible, horrible, really bad year for AM radio in Canada. From January 18, 2024. Canadian listeners lost several AM radio stations in 2023…
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Cross Talk: Season 8, Episode 2
On the 85th anniversary of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. From October 30th, 2023. This is the sixth in my series of episodes in defence of the Mercury…
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Cross Talk: Season 8, Episode 1
On radio and the great power failure of 2003. From August 14, 2023. On the 20th anniversary of a power failure that left 50 million people in Canada and the…
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Cross Talk: Season 7, Epsiode 5
On sports betting ads during play-by-play broadcasts. From May 4, 2023. The preponderance of advertising for sports betting apps -- including apps that let a…
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Cross Talk: Season 7, Episode 4
On getting caught in the act of staging fake news. From April 27, 2023 - examining a broadcast of March 19th. If you're going to brand your show as…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season 7, Episode 3 - Special
In advance of World Radio Day 2023 - February 13th. The UNESCO theme for World Radio Day this year is Radio and Peace. That seems to have some resonance with…
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Cross Talk: Season 7, Episode 2 - Special
In advance of World Radio Day 2023 - February 13th. The UNESCO theme for World Radio Day this year is Radio and Peace. That seems to have some resonance with…
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Cross Talk: Season 7, Episode 1
On Radio and Roswell: 75 years later. On July 8, 1947 the U-S military announced it had recovered a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico. A day later, it…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, Episode 11
On trust in radio on World Radio Day. From February 11, 2022. UNESCO -- the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization -- designates February…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, Episode 10
On how to frame the events on Parliament Hill. From February 4, 2022. As a protest by a group calling itself Freedom Convoy continues in Ottawa, perhaps some…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, Episode Nine
On radio station branding – and what’s in a name. From January 27, 2022. Another information radio station in Toronto has rebranded - changed its name and its…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, Episode Eight
On media manipulation: the premier’s snow job. From January 20, 2022. The Premier of Ontario takes a drive after the worst snowstorm Toronto has experienced in…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, Episode Seven
On covering the insurrection. From January 12, 2022. On January 7th -- one day after the anniversary of the assault on the U-S capital -- I check in with a…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, Episode Six
On transmedia and multiplatform storytelling in the age of the pandemics. From December 17, 2021. In the time of the pandemic, users are using more of our…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, Episode Five
How local radio reacts – the murder of John Lennon. From December 8, 2021. FM rock radio in New York City breaks the news to listeners...on December 8th, 1980…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season six, Episode Four
On preserving Canada's radio and tv history. From November 25, 2021. Radio history is part of our history. But there's no publicly-funded, organized…
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Cross Talk Season Six, Episode Three
On the podcast career accelerator at Hot Docs. From November 12, 2021. The Hot Docs documentary festival in Toronto is offering young independent podcast…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, EpisodeTwo
On the Future of News - Part One. From November 4, 2021. On various occasions this season I will explore aspects of The Future of News from perspectives of…
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Cross Talk: Season Six, Episode One
On resisting the ongoing abuse of the War of the Worlds broadcast. From October 27, 2021 - just ahead of World Audio Drama day October 30th. This is the fifth…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk Season 5 Extra: You Won‘t Hear this on the News - Episode 12
From September 30, 2021. On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. There is a role for everyone to play. Here are some thoughts, based on points I…
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Cross Talk Season 5 Extra: You Won‘t Hear this on the News - Episode 11: 9/11
From September 10, 2021. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001. Broadcasting, podcasting, newspapers and online sites are…
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You Won't Hear this on the News - Episode10/Cross Talk Season5 Extra
On Emancipation Day. Suppose it's the first time Canada officially commemorates Emancipation Day as a national holiday. That would be on the news that day…
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You Won't Hear this on the News - Episode 9/Cross Talk Season Five Extra
From July 1, 2021: The Every Child Matters March through downtown Toronto. This time: walk with thousands from the Toronto Council Fire building at Parliament…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk extra: The Erasure of Race: The murder of Howard Joel Munroe. Part 1 - A Killing in the Park - documentary
The murder of a young Black man by members of a racist white gang in a city park during fireworks for the Victoria Day holiday in 2001 should have sent waves…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk extra: Season Four, Episode 15 reload
In April 2021 there has been a great deal of coverage on podcasts, radio and tv of the one-year anniversary of the mass murder in rural Nova Scotia: April 18…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastYou Won't Hear this on the News - Episode 8
The government of Ontario wants police to start random stops of people on the street or in traffic to make them justify having left their homes during the…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 19
On the first all-female broadcast crew in NBA history. From March 25, 2021. The Toronto Raptors become the first team in NBA history to have a game with an…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 18
“How radio listeners need their own baseball play-by-play”. From March 18, 2021. Listeners have been tuning in on radio to live play-by-play of baseball games…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 17
On pandemic stories in audio fiction. From March 11, 2021. On the first "anniversary" of living in the pandemic, I'm listening for audio stories about living…
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You Won't Hear this on the News - Episode 7
On the passing of radio news star Dick Smyth. From March 7, 2021. Stories are being told as news reaches us that Dick Smyth has passed away. His newscasts and…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 16
“On women in radio on International Women’s Day”. From March 4, 2021. When academics and researchers write about women in radio they tend to lean toward public…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 15
On hearing sounds from Planet Mars on the radio here on Earth. From February 25, 2021. We are fascinated by the planet Mars. It stands out in the night sky…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 14
On how there's nothing funny about switching from a sports radio format to "funny". From February 18, 2021. Among the effects of the mass changes at radio…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 13
On World Radio Day - and its themes of Evolution, Innovation, Connection. From February 11, 2021. February 13th is recognized as World Radio Day. It's an…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastYou Won't Hear this on the News - Episode 6
On the mass layoffs in radio - including CFRB Newstalk 1010 and CJAD. From February 6, 2021. Hundreds of people have been thrown out of work in the past few…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 12
On the power of a poem. From February 3, 2021. It was a tense moment in history. Who knew what might happen as Joe Biden was being sworn in as President of the…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 11
On whether news gathering is an essential service during a state of emergency. From January 27, 2021. In Ontario, newspapers, radio and television broadcasting…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode 10
How local radio reports on a national crisis happening in its own community. From January 20, 2021. The world was watching and listening as a mob invaded the…
paulcrosstoronto’s PodcastCross Talk: Season Five, Episode Nine
How a memo from a Radio boss does not violate a host's right to freedom of speech. From January 13, 2021. Right-wing talk radio hosts in the U-S have been…
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Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode Eight
On the different receptions Americans are given in Washington - depending on race. From January 7, 2021. What was obvious to anyone watching live video of the…
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You Won't Hear this on the News - Episode 5.
From New Year's 2020/2021. You Won't Hear This On the News, but it should be news. One of the great friends...supporters...boosters...writers...champions of…