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John Zada is an author, journalist and photographer based in Toronto, Canada.

His first book, 'In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch', was chosen by Amazon as one of its '100 Best Books of the Year' for 2019 and was a finalist for The 2MoreJohn Zada is an author, journalist and photographer based in Toronto, Canada.

His first book, 'In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch', was chosen by Amazon as one of its '100 Best Books of the Year' for 2019 and was a finalist for The 2020 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The Washington Post describes it as "a quirky and oddly captivating tale." Steve Donoghue of Open Letters Monthly calls the book "as eloquent and big-hearted as, for instance, Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard."

John's work has appeared in such publications as the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Travel + Leisure, BBC, CBC, Al-Jazeera, New York Post, Explore, Maisonneuve, Montecristo, Los Angeles Review of Books, Toque & Canoe and Canadian Business.

Before turning his focus to writing, he spent several years working as a documentary filmmaker. He directed such projects as 'Up At Dawn: The Working Children of Egypt', and 'The Bitterest Exile'. More recently, John worked as a producer on 'Canada's Dark Secret' for Al-Jazeera, a film about Canada's residential school system. Less

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Born in Toronto, Canada.

Official Website: https://www.johnzada.com
Twitter: senor_adaz
Influences: Ryszard Kapuściński, Lawrence Durrell, Jorge Luis Borges, Idries Shah, ...more
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The sowing of online propaganda and disinformation today comes as little surprise to the few prescient naysayers, who, at the dawn of the Internet Age, foresaw the dangers of a technology that allowed anyone to publish anything they pleased. But

John Zada, Veils of Distortion: How the News Media Warps Our Minds

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticize.

John Zada, In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch

It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things whether the Sasquatch actually exists or not.

John Zada, In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch

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