page_title: Jian Ghomeshi
section_title: The Ideation Project
hierarchical_section_title: Jian Ghomeshi / Career / The Ideation Project
caption_attribution_description: English: Jian Ghomeshi at a Harvest Celebration in September 2017.
context_page_description: Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian musician, writer, and former CBC Radio broadcaster. From 1990 to 2000, he was a vocalist and drummer in the Thornhill-based folk-pop band Moxy Früvous. In the 2000s, he became a television and radio broadcaster. He has hosted, among others, the CBC Newsworld TV show >play, the CBC Radio One radio show The National Playlist, and the CBC Radio One show Q, which he co-created and hosted from 2007 to 2014, until fired by the CBC. Q, which features interviews with prominent cultural and entertainment figures, became the highest rated show in its timeslot in CBC history.
  In 2014 and 2015, Ghomeshi was the subject of allegations of sexual harassment or assault and was later arrested. In late 2015, Ghomeshi pleaded not guilty to the charges and his trial began in early 2016. He was acquitted of five of the charges on March 24, 2016. On May 11, 2016, the Crown withdrew the last remaining charge after Ghomeshi signed a peace bond and apologized to his accuser. In April 2017, Ghomeshi launched a new online venture, "The Ideation Project".
context_section_description: In April 2017, Ghomeshi launched a new creative endeavor called The Ideation Project. The Ideation Project is a music and podcast series featuring all original words, music, recordings and production by Ghomeshi, which has Ghomeshi commenting on a range of cultural and newsworthy topics. Ghomeshi launched The Ideation Project with a monologue called "Exiles" on the topic of what it means to not have a homeland. Season 1 includes 13 "tracks" on various subjects. The web series, distributed by Ron Hartenbaum's WYD Media Management was described by The Globe and Mail as a "less than triumphant return" despite what they refer to as his slick voice and delivery. Additional backlash to Ghomeshi's return to media resulted in Art19 backing out of hosting the media files, which were subsequently relocated to SoundCloud.
  Adam Ragusea's review of the first four episodes of The Ideation Project for Slate calls it "a podcast version of Ghomeshi’s signature opening essay segment" on the CBC show Q. However, Ragusea says that without that CBC show's "crack team of producers behind him, the top-tier guests they booked, [and] the cultural “moment” the show inhabited", he thinks there is not anything "particularly special about Jian Ghomeshi" when he is podcasting alone.  Ragusea criticizes Ghomeshi's "hackneyed" platitudes about culture and society, the tone of "self-righteous self-pity", and the way the monologues are delivered, in a rhyming rap style over Ghomeshi's own electronica loops.
caption: Ghomeshi at the Harvest Celebration in September 2017.
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