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Five questions for award-winning photojournalist Peter Bregg

Photojournalist Peter Bregg has returned from a three-week tour of Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan where he was photographing senator Roméo Dallaire and his work in the demobilization and…
Randy Starkman, award-winning sports journalist, passes away at 51

Randy Starkman covered 12 Olympic Games, won two National Newspaper Awards and was generally lauded as one of the best amateur sports reporters in the country. He passed away this morning in…
Classic Gopnik

In the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, Matthew Braga profiles Adam Gopnik and explains why The New Yorker essayist aspires to be the “rococo, Jewish, city-bound, Canadian E.B. White.”
Jim Curran’s CBC traffic reporting career celebrated

Jim Curran has been reporting on Toronto traffic for CBC since 1972. Today was his final broadcast.
Former CBC cameraman Dean Heywood has passed away

Former CBC cameraman, father, husband and news junkie Dean Heywood passed away from a heart attack last month while snorkelling in Costa Rica.
Kathleen Petty on her double mastectomy and taking time for herself

Last year, breast cancer forced Kathleen Petty to trade 14-hour days for some time for herself. The Ottawa Citizen's Shelley Page sat down with Petty to talk about her cancer and that…
Dan MacLellan resigns from CTV London amid legal issues

CTV London has announced that senior anchor Dan MacLellan has resigned in order to focus on upcoming legal challenges.
Katie DeRosa named first James Travers Fellowship recipient

Katie DeRosa, a reporter for Victoria Times Colonist, has been awarded the inaugural James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship, created by friends and colleagues of the late Jim Travers after his sudden death last March.
Five questions for photographer Ryan Pyle

Ryan Pyle is a Canadian photographer living in China. Despite his photos regularly appearing in some of the most well-known English-language publications, he doesn't like to call himself a photojournalist. J-Source's Rhiannon…
Lloyd Robertson, Andy Walsh to be inducted to the Canadian News Hall of Fame

Lloyd Robertson and Andy Walsh are set to be the newest inductees to the Canadian News Hall of Fame at a gala in Toronto on May 16.