Neil Macdonald brings a lifetime of elite experience in network television and newspapers to bear on helping clients communicate clearly, concisely, and without clutter. He provides a range of service: C-suite media coaching, strategic and tactical communications advice, polished internal and external messaging, op-ed ghostwriting, and complex board documents.
Neil Macdonald brings a lifetime of elite experience in network television and newspapers to bear on helping clients communicate clearly, concisely, and without clutter. He provides a range of service: C-suite media coaching, strategic and tactical communications advice, polished internal and external messaging, op-ed ghostwriting, and complex board documents.
About
Neil Macdonald spent 43 years reporting on politics, wars, elections, revolutions, booms, crashes, coups, and the struggles of ordinary human beings in the unforgiving, bewildering rush of history. He worked as a Parliamentary and foreign correspondent for CBC news for decades, and later as CBC’s national opinion columnist, where he garnered some of the biggest audiences on the website.
He is a faithful practitioner of William Strunk’s famous Rule 13: “Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
He speaks French, pretty good English, and sufficient Arabic.
How to find me
Office phone: 613-513-6812
Email: rneilmacd@gmail.com
Blog
An Infected and Mutating Democracy
In the shit-splattered gladiator arena to our south, an infection is mutating....
An American Thought Experiment
Imagine if Obama asked an epidemiologist on camera, at the White House, about injecting disinfectant?
Government, Scrooge McDuck and the Chumps
Believe this: on the other side of this horror, big corporate concerns will be concocting new ways to herd the chumps.
Give Me Liberty, And Give Everyone Else Death
Let us give thanks we do not have the liberty/superstition cult in Canada
Frightened Dogs in a Bowling Alley
We’re all supposed to nod approvingly at overweening prudence. Self-denial has become an orthodoxy, a new and more powerful form of wokeness.
“THAT’S BEEN THE STORY OF LIFE.”
The watering hole is shrinking, as the African saying goes, and the animals are starting to look at one another differently. The weaker ones are feeling their mortality, beginning to understand that they just might not make it through
ALL OF US VERSUS THE ALIENS
Interesting, isn’t it, how much barbed wire has suddenly slithered out of the conversation? How fear, and a threat that ignores borders, combine to encourage civility and prod us closer? How, suddenly, rigid ideology and blinkered partisanship seem awfully
So. Who gets the ventilators?
I wish Sophie Gregoire Trudeau good health, and a complete recovery in her quarantine. The same for the lovely Margaret Trudeau, if she comes down with COVID-19. Both women were at the same speaking engagement in London; presumably, that