If you’re wondering why Seamus O’Regan is now filling in on Astral’s Newstalk 1010 shows, it’s because the CTV National correspondent left the show last year. His quiet departure was quite the contrast to the great fanfare with which his move from host of Canada AM to CTV News was announced in November 2011.
Despatie announced his retirement from competitive diving just two days prior to Thursday’s announcement. “The announcement of Despatie in particular has been enough to capture the interest of French-language media in Quebec, who could normally not care less about local English-language television,” media blogger Steve Faguy writes.
Former Nova Scotia cabinet minister and journalist Jane Purves died at age 63 on June 1, the Halifax Chronicle Herald reported. Purves started working at the Chronicle Herald in 1974 in the Truro bureau. She was appointed the managing editor at The Mail-Star, a now defunct afternoon edition of the Chronicle Herald, in 1988. Three years later,…
Kayla Hounsell, a reporter and weekend anchor with CTV Atlantic in Halifax, was named the 2013 RTDNA Canada President’s Fellow. The $3,000 fellowship allows a working journalist to attend a seminar at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. According to her bio, Hounsell joined CTV in 2009. She left Newfoundland to study journalism at…
The Globe and Mail's publisher said in a town hall meeting in April that he'd like to see 60 employees take the buyouts, which represent eight per cent of the company's 770 employees. J-Source has received a list of employees from The Globe and Mail who have taken the buyout.
Gillian "Gill" Deacon will join CBC Radio One's Here and Now afternoon radio show as its new host on Sept. 2. "The CBC has played a big part in my career and as host of Here and Now I am looking forward to telling the stories that matter most to Torontonians," Deacon said in a…
Mike Hornbrook is retiring from CBC Radio News after nearly 30 years with the public broadcaster. Mike Hornbrook was the economics correspondent for CBC Radio News. "For nearly a decade, Mike has been the steady voice of expertise and reason around the often dizzying ups and downs of economic trends affecting Canadians," said CBC managing news…
The Chronicle Herald’s long-time Opinion editor Bev Dauphinee is retiring after 35 years with the newspaper. Dauphinee started her career with the Halifax newspaper in 1978 and became one of the country’s first female news editors in the late 1980s, according her column announcing her retirement. She was the Opinions editor for 21 years. [node:ad] She recalled some…
Veteran newspaper editor Neil Reynolds died Sunday. Tributes flowed in from newspapers across the country where Reynolds has worked over his long career.
La Presse reporter Laura-Julie Perreault has been named the Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow. [node:ad] Perreault will join 11 other foreign journalists and 12 American journalists as Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. She plans to issues facing women combatants as well as state building and democratization in post-dictatorial states.. The fellowship provides a stipend…