Media Information

The best way to reach us is to call John Chew at +1 416 876 7675 generally between 10:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. Eastern time, or between 08:00 A.M. and 12 midnight local time during major Scrabble tournaments.

Recent Mention

Date Source Description
2008-04-01 CHQR AM 770, Calgary AB John Chew interviewed from 18:40-19:00 local time by guest host Greg Bohnert on The World Tonight, concerning the CNSC and the 60th anniversary of Scrabble.
2008-01-24 The Limelighters, Global TV (available on DVD) John Chew appears briefly in one episode of this four-part documentary on the residents of Performing Arts Lodge, as he helps direct their annual Scrabble With The Stars fundraiser.
2008-01-18 CFRA 580, Ottawa ON John Chew interviewed by Rob Snow for five minutes concerning Hasbro’s attempts to have Facebook remove the Scrabulous application.
2008-01-17 CBC News Online John Chew quoted at length concerning Hasbro’s attempts to have Facebook remove the Scrabulous application.
2008-01-14 Kingston Whig-Standard “All spell breaks loose when WORDS and MATH collide” — lead article by Jordan Press on the newspaper’s front page, John Chew quoted and photographed in connection with the annual Kingston Cup Scrabble match.
2008-01 BlogTO John Chew mentioned as organiser of the Kingston Cup Scrabble match.
2007-11-09
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2007-11-12
Various John Chew was webmaster (web site manager, programmer, content producer and photographer, in addition to his other duties as assistant director and pairings officer) for the World Scrabble Championship in Mumbai. Many major and minor media linked to the web site and published his photographs.
2007-09-09 Test The Nation John Chew appeared on the Word Gamers team in this episode of the CBC quiz show, and was individually interviewed by host Brent Bambury.
2007-09-09 CityNews John Chew appeared briefly in a minute-long story by Muhammad Lila about the Toronto Scrabble Tournament.
2007-09-08 Toronto Star John Chew, quoted in an article by Surya Bhattacharya, entitled "Scrabble masters gird for word battle in world tournament".
2007-08-08 Vancouver Sun The Vancouver Sun (and reportedly Global News) used and credited John Chew’s photo of James Leong at the Players Championship. An offline copy of the article is available upon request.
2007-07-07 BlogTO John Chew quoted at length on raccoons and municipal “green bins” for compost.
2007-07-01 mamma magazine, Vol. 27, pp. 2-3. John Chew was the interview subject of Chiaki Hashimoto’s monthly lifestyle column: “それが私の生活・数学研究者/スクラブルゲーム会長”.
2007-06-09 And Sometimes Y John Chew and members of the Toronto Scrabble Club were interviewed by Russell Smith and Nicola Luksic for the “word game” episode of their weekly CBC Radio show on the English language.
2007-05-01 Word Ways, Volume 40, Number 2, p. 108 John Chew and his Canonical List of Anamonics mentioned in an article on anamonics.
2007-05-01 SCRABBLE News, Issue 211 Cover story biography of John Chew on the occasion of his being awarded the NSA’s Michael Wise Director of the Year award.