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CJN vice-president Elizabeth Wolfe took helm of the Jewish newspaper as its president last week, while Yoni Goldstein will step in as the new editor as of Jan. 6, 2014. 

Greenspon, vice-president of business development at the Toronto Star, is leaving the newspaper. 

CBC’s London correspondent Ann MacMillan is retiring after more than 40 years in the business. Her last day is Dec. 16. MacMillan has worked in the London bureau since 1981 when she signed…

Monique Beech, Sun Media’s national community manager, will become its digital content director on Dec. 20. 

After 27 years teaching journalism to undergraduate and graduate students at Carleton University, Catherine McKercher is retiring.  

Leigh Chapple, a retired CTV Ottawa anchor, died at age 58. Chapple retired from 2012 after a 36-year career, according to an article published in The Ottawa Citizen. 

Andy Ross, a veteran journalist with Vancouver's The Province, has died at age 66 after a short illness.

Purves, the editor-in-chief of Flare, is leaving the Canadian magazine at the end of January to move back to New York for personal reasons. 

Managing editor Andrew Potter has been named editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen, filling a role that has been vacant since Gerry Nott’s departure in September. 

Ladurantaye is joining Twitter, tweeted Kirstine Stewart, the head of the social media network’s Canadian branch.