About www.saleemkhan.com

Background

This is the personal website of Toronto-based journalist Saleem Khan who covers technology, business and international affairs.

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Saleem works independently for major international and Canadian news outlets. He is the national chairman of the Canadian Association of Journalists -- the country's foremost and largest professional organization for journalists, and the only one that covers all media disciplines. He is also a director of the John H. McDonald Journalism Foundation and the CAJ Education Foundation, charities that promote and fund journalism education, training and awareness of the public's right to information.

Saleem previously launched and managed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's technology news service as its first correspondent, producing news and features and reporting on-air for the publicly funded national broadcast and online news organization.

Before the CBC recruited him, Saleem was the global technology editor, Canadian national bureau chief and news editor for Metro International, the world's largest global newspaper and the biggest in Canada by circulation. As of September 2006, Metro was the largest and fastest growing international newspaper in the world, with daily Metro editions in over 100 major cities in 21 countries in 19 languages around the world. It has more than 18.5 million daily readers and over 37.5 million weekly readers.

Prior to being asked to join Metro, Saleem reported for major international and Canadian news and business outlets that include the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and Report On Business magazine, and edited news for Toronto daily Today and weekly Eye.

Saleem is regularly invited by conference organizers, media outlets, major corporations and schools to speak to them and offer strategic insight on technology developments and trends, issues and innovation in journalism, emergent and disruptive media, and capturing a youth audience.

In a January 2007 news report from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Saleem introduced a new word to the English language that was rapidly adopted by the technology community and news media including the Wall Street Journal: Craplets. The term for unwanted, untested or problematic free and trial software that comes preinstalled on new computers quickly gained popularity, going from no references in Internet searches before the story ran on Jan. 10, to some 100,000 references within a month.

Saleem's craplets article triggered a storm of debate about their controversial use, vaulted the word onto eWeek's top technology buzzwords list, inspired a TV, print and online advertising campaign for Apple computers; became the basis of an anti-craplet crusade by prominent Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg, and ultimately led Dell to introduce its line of Vostro computers that it says are free of craplets or "trialware."

Contact

Saleem Khan
+1 416.494.0908

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