https://www.adrianma.caRSS Feed for Adrian MaenWed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-39-metro-morning/clip/16189593-toronto-journalist-tries-hand-water-tasting-judge-sommelierStay up-to-date with the latest and best audio content from CBC Listen delivered to your inbox every two weeks.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-39-metro-morning/clip/16189593-toronto-journalist-tries-hand-water-tasting-judge-sommelierhttps://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/360essentials/360 Essentials: A Beginner’s Guide to Immersive Video Storytelling is an open educational guidebook I co-authored that introduces students and emerging creators to the fundamentals of 360-degree video production and immersive storytelling. The resource walks readers through core concepts including shooting techniques, spatial audio, editing workflows, and the ethical considerations of immersive media. Designed for classroom use, it has been adopted as a curricular resource in multiple post-secondary media programs and is freely available as an open educational resource.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/360essentials/https://factsandfrictions.ca/portfolio-item/forced-change-how-to-create-a-virtual-newsroom/An essential dimension of journalism education has been the hands-on training and experiential learning that takes place in broadcast studios and campus newsrooms.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://factsandfrictions.ca/portfolio-item/forced-change-how-to-create-a-virtual-newsroom/https://factsandfrictions.ca/portfolio-item/ffv1n2-adrian-ma/Toward the end of 2020, the editors of the popular website Dictionary.com hosted a “People’s Choice” survey to identify the defining word of the year, something that its users felt best encapsulated the metaphysical timbre of the preceding 12 months. The top pick, it turned out, was “unprecedented,” a choice undoubtedly inspired by the myriad ways the COVID-19 pandemic had upended our professional and personal lives.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://factsandfrictions.ca/portfolio-item/ffv1n2-adrian-ma/https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.7055321In 2016, Adrian Ma received a truly thoughtful gift from his uncle. A gift he proceeded to put in his closet where it remained for the next seven years. It was a bottle of The Glenlivet Special Jubilee Reserve—a rare scotch whisky that sells for upwards of $3000. This is by far the most expensive bottle of booze in his collection. That’s exactly why he’s so frozen on what to do with it. Should he sell it, keep it, or drink it? He goes to Scotland to find the answer.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.7055321https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-150-now-or-never/clip/16168916-superfans-how-far-fandomWhen you're a fan of something, it can take over your whole life. So what's behind the roots of our various obsessions, and how far would you go for your fandom? Today we're taking you inside the world of superfans. Adrian Ma loves the band Oasis so much, he flew 5000 km to see them kick off their long-awaited reunion tour this summer in Cardiff, Wales. Without a ticket. So does he find a way in, or did he just make the dumbest (and most expensive) mistake of his life? Adrian takes us along on an epic adventure of finding your tribe, the power of music, and the magical moments that can bring an entire community together.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-150-now-or-never/clip/16168916-superfans-how-far-fandomhttps://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6535134On Sunday night, some of basketball's greatest players will be enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Among them is Vince Carter – a virtuoso dunker, eight-time All Star, and the only player whose NBA career spans four different decades... including with the Toronto Raptors. In our Sunday Documentary, Adrian Ma explores how Carter helped put Canada on the basketball map... and beyond the court, also inspired a new, diverse generation of kids who didn't connect to hockey or baseball in the same way.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6535134https://thewalrus.ca/best-tap-water/It’s a Saturday night in late February, and I’m in small-town West Virginia witnessing an unexpected stand-off. In the garden room of The Country Inn of Berkeley Springs are forty, maybe fifty people, crowded against each other. About 100 more spectators are watching from the perimeter. At the centre of the action are the gleaming prizes they’re vying for: unopened bottles of water, piled in the middle of the floor. Some have brought backpacks and tote bags, hoping to fill them with imported H2O...Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://thewalrus.ca/best-tap-water/https://theconversation.com/what-the-paper-reveals-about-local-news-and-journalism-today-264849On screen, journalists have often been depicted as crusaders for truth — from All the President’s Men to Spotlight to The Newsroom. The Paper suggests something different: reporters not as larger-than-life figures, but as struggling underdogs doing their best and often getting it wrong.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://theconversation.com/what-the-paper-reveals-about-local-news-and-journalism-today-264849https://www.cbc.ca/radio/nowornever/i-m-adrian-ma-journalist-so-is-he-when-we-met-i-learned-we-have-even-more-in-common-1.7344815This First Person column is written by Adrian Ma, a journalist who lives in Toronto. For more information about First Person stories, see the FAQ.There's a certain inevitability to Googling yourself. Call it curiosity or vanity, but we've all done it, right? Usually, I'm looking for old articles I've published or seeing if anyone's referenced an interview I'd done. But several years ago, on a day at work like any other, something unexpected happened: I found myself looking at the profile of anot...Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://www.cbc.ca/radio/nowornever/i-m-adrian-ma-journalist-so-is-he-when-we-met-i-learned-we-have-even-more-in-common-1.7344815https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/opening-rare-scotch-whisky-bottle-1.7042544This First Person column is written by Adrian Ma, who lives in Toronto. For more information about First Person stories, see the FAQ.Nearly everyone I know is into collecting something. Some people collect comic books, others store vinyl records. My kids hunt for sea glass whenever we visit a beach.Me? I love whisky. For nearly two decades, I've been curating a modest collection of this liquid ambrosia. I've got sweet American bourbons, spicy Canadian ryes, Irish varieties and a couple of award-...Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/opening-rare-scotch-whisky-bottle-1.7042544https://thewalrus.ca/exclusion-act/The August sun pulsates overhead as my family and I arrive at the doors of our hotel in downtown Victoria. It’s just shy of 7 p.m., the tail end of a long day that included planes, ferries, and a three-hour time difference. For my wife, Elizabeth, our two young kids, Maddy and Max, and their mah mah and yeh yeh (paternal grandmother and grandfather respectively, in Cantonese), this is our first trip outside Ontario since the pandemic. The kids are hungry and exhausted. We need food. Quick. My fa...Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://thewalrus.ca/exclusion-act/https://theconversation.com/the-next-phase-of-the-internet-is-coming-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-web3-192919The rapid growth of cryptocurrencies and virtual non-fungible tokens have dominated news headlines in recent years. But not many may see how these modish applications connect together in a wider idea being touted by some as the next iteration of the internet — Web3.Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://theconversation.com/the-next-phase-of-the-internet-is-coming-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-web3-192919https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-metaverse-and-what-can-we-do-there-179200You’ve likely heard recently how the metaverse will usher in a new era of digital connectivity, virtual reality (VR) experiences and e-commerce. Tech companies are betting big on it: Microsoft’s massive US$68.7 billion acquisition of game developing giant Activision Blizzard reflected the company’s desire to bolster its position in the interactive entertainment space.Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-metaverse-and-what-can-we-do-there-179200https://j-source.ca/how-ai-is-helping-newsrooms-identify-biases-automate-multi-platform-visual-media-and-accelerate-data-journalism/Technological development and artificial intelligence are changing the way journalists discover, analyze and disseminate news stories.Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://j-source.ca/how-ai-is-helping-newsrooms-identify-biases-automate-multi-platform-visual-media-and-accelerate-data-journalism/https://j-source.ca/digital-journalism-innovations-on-the-pandemic-beat/I’ve come across some intriguing examples of coronavirus-related content using augmented, virtual and mixed reality applications, although most of these haven’t come from journalists. It makes sense to me that these overworked newsrooms have excelled at data reporting and using video to cover COVID-19 because that is what they are best equipped to do. But perhaps there are some interesting ideas newsrooms can draw from as we continue to work through this global pandemic.Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://j-source.ca/digital-journalism-innovations-on-the-pandemic-beat/https://j-source.ca/can-reported-soundscapes-foster-deeper-audience-connections/In this regular column, Ryerson University School of Journalism professor Adrian Ma explores emerging trends, technological developments and compelling work in the burgeoning field of immersive storytelling, including 360 video and virtual, augmented and mixed reality content. When it comes to immersive storytelling, virtual reality and augmented reality generally gets the lion’s share of the attention. But interest is rapidly growing in “360” or “3D” sound, not only as being an essential aspec...Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://j-source.ca/can-reported-soundscapes-foster-deeper-audience-connections/https://www.cbc.ca/2017/so-where-are-you-from-an-open-letter-to-my-sesquicentennial-baby-1.4191073As I write this letter, you are a few weeks old. It will be years until you're able to read and understand this, but I wanted to do something special to mark your arrival. You see, mon fils, your birth year coincides with Canada 150.The milestone has sparked many complicated conversations, which you'll have a lifetime to learn more about — but I wanted to explore one part of it with you today.You see, you're not merely a "Canadian citizen," you're also "Chinese-Canadian." This is like being a me...Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0100https://www.cbc.ca/2017/so-where-are-you-from-an-open-letter-to-my-sesquicentennial-baby-1.4191073