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Stephen Northfield to leave The Globe and Mail to join Human Rights Watch

After 18 years at The Globe and Mail, Stephen Northfield is leaving the newspaper to become Human Rights Watch’s director of digital media in New York City.
CTV’s Roger Smith announces retirement

Roger Smith has been a fixture of CTV’s Ottawa bureau for nearly two decades, but that will all comes to an end on March 15. Smith announced his retirement yesterday.
Changes to The Globe and Mail’s Books section

The Globe and Mail's Book section hasn’t been killed, but there are some changes being made to it.
eBook review: Cool Heads at Kingston Pen

Ron Haggart died in August 2011. His family has put the journalism he produced during the Kingston Pen riot in 1971 together in an ebook, Cool Heads at Kingston Pen, now available from Kobo and…
Postmedia announces management changes to publisher of Vancouver dailies

Gordon Fisher has been appointed president and publisher of the Pacific Newspaper Group, which publishes Postmedia dailies the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province. He replaces Kevin Bent, who will be leaving Postmedia Network…
Krista Erickson leaves Sun TV’s Canada Live

Krista Erickson, the Sun TV host of Canada Live, has quit the network and moved to the United Kingdom, The Globe and Mail’s Steve Ladurantaye reports, where she has been spotted reporting for CBS News London.
Richard Garneau, French-Canadian sports journalist, dies at 82

Sports journalist Richard Garneau died Sunday morning at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital at the age of 82. While Garneau was known for calling the Montreal Canadiens games on L’soiree du hockey, he…
Jean-Philippe Cipriani named editor-in-chief of ProjetJ

Our French-language sister site, ProjetJ, has named Jean-Philippe Cipriani its new editor-in-chief.
Photojournalist Mike Cassese remembered

Mike Cassese, the award-winning photojournalist who shot for Reuters and was a former Toronto Sun photographer, died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 53 on Dec. 27.
Laurier LaPierre, former broadcaster and senator, dies at 83

Laurier LaPierre, a retired senator and Canadian broadcaster, best known for co-hosting CBC’s This Hour has Seven Days in the 1960s, has died at 83, CBC reports.