Marc Weisblott
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Marc Weisblott (born 1971) is a Canadian writer, music journalist, radio broadcaster, media critic and blogger. On October 6, 2005, he launched paved.ca, a weblog on news, culture and happenings in the Greater Toronto Area, in conjunction with the Toronto Star newspaper. The site went on summer hiatus June 30, 2006.
While still in high school, Weisblott became involved with Toronto community radio station CIUT. He would broadcast as a disc jockey, and serve as a member of its collective management and programming team, from 1987 to 1992 [1].
From 1992 to 1998, he wrote a column and music features for Toronto alternative newsweekly eye. At eye, he created and organized the national Music Critics Poll, a Canadian answer to Robert Christgau's Pazz & Jop survey in The Village Voice. The Music Critics Poll continues in eye, annually, to this day.
In 1996, he hosted a weekend talk radio show focusing on popular culture on Toronto's Talk 640; he returned to contribute to the station, then branded Mojo Radio, in 2001 and 2002. He was Toronto radio columnist both for the National Post and for the radio industry website radiodigest.com, and he remains a noted observer of Canadian radio and media.
Since 2001, Weisblott has maintained a series of blogs. tha weisblogg was a general interest and popular culture blog, reincarnated in 2005 as weisblogg no. 5. In 2002, he became Canada's first professional blogger with his work for music website redseat.ca. Radio Weisblogg continued his discussion of broadcast and internet radio and music culture, and Better Living Centre, a collaboration with blogger and cartoonist Brett Lamb, covered life in Canada's largest city. Under the title campaign bubble, he blogged the 2006 Ontario municipal elections for The Globe and Mail.
Weisblott was "blogfather" to Toronto Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias [2].
Weisblott's writing has also appeared in The Village Voice, Saturday Night, Blender, NOW, and on MSNBC.com and CBC News Online.
He studied journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University.
