Journalism
Journalism
Q: What do Monty Python’s Eric Idle, Gene Simmons of Kiss fame, and Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General of Canada, have in common?
A: They’ve all had the pleasure of being interviewed by Andrew J. Borkowski.
Ever since he saved his school paper from the sharp pencils of deficit-fighting student politicians, Andrew has been a working journalist, contributing news articles, investigative features, and travel pieces (as well as restaurant, gallery, book, theatre and TV reviews) to over twenty publications. Arts and media reporting have been his specialty, beginning with his nine-year stint as editor of SCAN, the award-winning bimonthly publication of the CBC Producer’s Associations and the Canadian Media Guild. Reporting to a board of distinguished producers and journalists from programs such as the fifth estate, Man Alive, Sunday Morning and The National, Andrew covered the CBC and the larger broadcasting arena during a decade of tumultuous change wrought by cutbacks and the onset of the digital revolution.
After leaving SCAN in 1998, Andrew combined his media background with his other field of expertise: parenting. He went to work as TV Guide’s “Family Viewing” columnist from 2001 to 2006. Today he continues to cover kids’ television, plus gaming, music, and digital entertainment as ParentsCanada magazine’s “Media Guy.”
More of the many fab and famous people Andrew has interviewed:
folksinger Pete Seeger
The National’s Peter Mansbridge
figure skating legend Toller Cranston
Hockey Night In Canada’s Don Cherry
Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas
Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott of The Royal Canadian Air Farce
playwright George F. Walker
Frank Shuster of Wayne and Shuster
Sesame Street’s Grover
Olympic Gold Medalist Donovan Bailey
Some other places were Andrew’s work has appeared:
The Globe and Mail
The Los Angeles Times
Quill & Quire
enRoute
Fashion, Flare, and Chatelaine
The Ottawa Citizen
The Winnipeg Free Press
The Canadian Forum
©Andrew J. Borkowski, 2011