Media
Club of Ottawa
Executive 2017-18
President,
June
Coxon
Secretary-Treasurer.Iris
ten
Holder
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Programs
Publicity
Board
of
Directors: June Coxon, Iris ten Holder, Janet
Webb, Helen Bednarek Van Eyk
Are
you a writer, a journalist, a reporter for other media, TV, Radio or
online? The
Media
Club of Ottawa is accepting new members.
Meetings are open to non-members so
join us. The meeting fee of $10 will be deducted from the membership
fee upon joining. Membership forms are available at the meeting. For
added convenience, the membership application form is also available
for downloading by clicking the link below.
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Application
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Fee $60
Program
2018-2019
TBA
Tuesday, September 18
Topic:
Travel Writing Today. Panelists: travel writers Susan Korah, Susan
Hallett, Peter Johansen, Laura Byrne Paquet. Where: Honeywell Room.
Tuesday, October 23
Topic:
Online Marketing - The Power of Social Media. Panelists: Laura Banks,
Brand Engagement Officer, CARE Canada; Andrea Banks, Digital Community
Manager, Giant Tiger. Where: Honeywell Room, Ottawa City Hall. Time: 6
pm- 8 pm.l
Tuesday, November 13
Speaker: Bill Fairbairn, Editor emeritus, Riverview Park Review
community newspaper; journalist with experience on three continents;
author of Newsboy - Adventures From a Life in Journalism. Where:
Honeywell Room, Ottawa City Hall. Time: 6 pm-8 pm.
December 2018
Social
Lunch
at the Lord Elgin Hotel and silent
auction fundraiser.
February 2019
Workshop
at Algonquin College
March
2019
at
Ottawa
City Hall
April 2019
at Otawa City Hall
May 2019
at Ottawa City Hall
at
Ottawa City Hall Media
Club student award winners
22 May 2018
at Ottawa City Hall
June 2018
TBA
Program
suggestions are welcome
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Award
Programs
The
Margaret
Graham Award
is awarded yearly in November to students at
Algonquin
College and
Carleton University
Recipients for 2017 were Rebecca Atkinson of Algonquin
College and Gabrielle Van Looyen of Carleton University
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The Melba Lent Woelflé Award
is awarded yearly in June to a journalism student with excellent
writing
skill at
Algonquin College.
Recipient for 2017 was Michael Clarke.
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VIRANY, Margaret
July 18, 1933 - September 27, 2018
Daughter of the late Rev. Dr. J. A. C. Kell, (a founder of the United
Church of Canada) and Kathleen Ward, a war bride of Portsmouth. A
founder and former editor of the Aylmer Bulletin, author of a number of
books including one about her family, the Kells. She was the supplier
of her verbatim notes of nine of the 15 chapters of Northrop
Frye’s Lectures published by professor Robert D. Denham, John P.
Fishwick Professor of English, Emeritus at Roanoke College in Salem,
Virginia. Mrs. Virany is survived by her husband Thomas, son Leslie and
her grandsons Robert and Walter, daughters Paula and Alexandra (Robin
Massett) and their children Samantha, Nicole and Laura. A reception
will be held in Mrs. Virany’s memory at the Aylmer United Church,
164 Principale St, Gatineau, QC J9H 3M9, on Sunday, October 14 at 2:00
p.m. Contributions to the Cancer Society will be welcome.
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NEWS........NEWS.........NEWS........
Community
newspapers
launching
in Ottawa the first week of
April.
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Residents
in Ottawa's west and south ends will soon find a new
community paper waiting in their mailbox. Four newspapers will be
launching this month under the banner of Your Community Voice.
CBC.ca
Media
Club
student award winners
earn more rewards
- Congratulations
to two Media Club student award winners who recently earned more
awards! Nicole McCormick received two awards from the Ontario Community
Newspapers Association (OCNA) at a gala ceremony in Toronto on April
20. She won the best student news writing category and placed third in
the student photography category. At the same event Rebecca Atkinson
took third place for student feature writing and third place for the
best college/university newspaper website. You’ll likely
recall that
our club presented Rebecca with a Margaret Graham Award in 2017. Nicole
McCormick received our club’s Melba Lent Woelfle Award in
2016.
Congratulations
to the whole Algonquin Times team. The newspaper reported in a
story about the event that it set a record this year. You can read the
article at. http:/algonquincollege.force.com.
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Remembering
Margaret Virany (1933-2018)
Obituary
Jean Portugal (-2018)
Rosaleen Dickson (1921-2018) *
Henry Heald (1929 - 2016) *
Mike Heenan (1942-2014)
Borgny Pearson (1920-2014)
Olive Dickason (1920-2011)
Ethel Jean Southworth (1923-2008)
Melba Lent Woelfle (1910-2004)
Gladys Arnold (1905-2002)
(Note:
this section will
grow little by little with links to
individual
pages. - Editor)
Submit information and photos to Media
Club of Ottawa.
with
the Subject Line: Remembering
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Program
In
the News - Jan-Apr
In
the News - Apr-Dec
Members'
News
Meeting
Reports
Awards
Congratulations
to Algonquin College
Congratulations to two Media Club student award winners who recently
earned more awards! Nicole McCormick received two awards from the
Ontario Community Newspapers Association (OCNA) at a gala ceremony in
Toronto on April 20. She won the best student news writing category and
placed third in the student photography category. At the same event
Rebecca Atkinson took third place for student feature writing and third
place for the best college/university newspaper website.
You’ll
likely recall that our club presented Rebecca with a Margaret Graham
Award in 2017. Nicole McCormick received our club’s Melba
Lent
Woelfle Award in 2016.
Congratulations to the Algonquin Times team as well. The
newspaper reported in a story about the event that it set a record this
year. It’s entitled Algonquin Times Sets Record at OCNA
Awards,
you can read the Times article at http:/algonquincollege.force.com
A R C H I V E S
Meetings
held in previous years:
The
highlighted links below will show a list of
speakers for the year
Olive
Dickason Biography
Darren
Prefontaine, curriculum development officer at the Gabriel
Dumont Institute (GDI), in Saskatoon, is writing Olive Dickason's
biography and expects it to be printed in 2018. Watch for more news
about this as it becomes available. Olive's portrait already hangs in
the institute's art gallery and GDI also has an Olive Dickason Room.
Olive's daughter, Anne, recently mentioned that the University of
Alberta will be dedicated a room to her in 2017.
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Award
Programs
The
Margaret
Graham Award
is awarded yearly in November to students at
Algonquin
College and
Carleton University
http://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/margaret-virany-1070516864
Recipients for 2017 were Rebecca Atkinson of Algonquin
College and Gabrielle Van Looyen of Carleton University
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The Melba Lent Woelflé Award
is awarded yearly in June to a journalism student with excellent
writing
skill at
Algonquin College.
Recipient for 2017 was Michael Clarke.
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Next Meeting
Membership fees are due for 2018-2019
New members are welcome
Download Membership
Application
Membership
Fee $60
Non-resident $25
Studemt $10
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Next Meeting
October 23, 2018
The panel
discussion scheduled for our October 23 meet has had to be cancelled.
Instead, Ainalem Tebeje, who has attended some of our meetings, has
agreed to discuss her novel
A Love Story In Broken English
Aina is a refugee
of Ethiopian origin. She has worked as a journalist, reporter,
correspondent and sub-editor as well as in several capacities for
Canadian government departments
Honeywell Room
Ottawa City Hall
110 Laurier Ave. West,
Ottawa, ON
Tuesday October 23
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Admission $10. Algonquin Journalism students with ID free
RSVP 613 521-4855 by October 21
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Previous Meetings
Tuesday, September 18. 2018
The Pros and Cons ofTravel Writing
Panelists:
Susan Hallett, Susan Korah, Peter Johansen and Laura Byrne Paquet
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Meetings held during 2017-2018
Saturday,
June 16, 2018
Brunch at the
Lord Elgin Restaurant, tour of the Ottawa Art
Gallery
Speaker:Michael
Wollock, publisher of community papers,
discussed his decision to start local papers
after Metro stopped publishing
Tuesday,
May 22, 2018
Olive Dickason Evening
Speakers: Naomi
Szigeti, granddaughter of former Media Club member the late Olive
Dickason, and
Brenda MacDougall, University of Ottawa Professordiscussed a
two-day event held last Fall at the University of Alberta in Edmonton
“Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Olive Dickason - renowned
historian,
activist and Indigenous Leader”.
Photos and two talks from the
event were shared, along with a 12-minute clip from a
documentary film about Olive.
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About
Brenda
Macdougall
Brenda
Macdougall was appointed Chair of Métis Research
at the
University of
Ottawa in 2010 after working for over ten years in the Department of
Native
Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Holding a PhD in
Native Studies she has been researching the history of various Metis
communities in Canada for
many years.
Her
first book One of the Family: Metis
Culture in Nineteenth Century Northwestern Saskatchewan was published in 2010 and she
was co-editor of Contours of a People: Metis Family,
Mobility, and History. In her role as research chair, Brenda has built
a strong program of
research in the connections between Metis families across the
homeland.
More
recently, she and her colleagues created the Digital Archives Database
Project, an
online archive
of transcribed historical records, with
the support of the Métis
and Non-Status
Indian Relations Directorate.
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Tuesday, April
24, 2018
Speaker:
Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University
journalism professor with a cross
appointment at the Institute of Political Economy, award winning author
and director of the Canadian Media Concentration Project. Report
Topic:
The Canadian Media
Concentration Project Explained
Tuesday
March 20, 2018
Forty
years publishing industry
Speaker:
Tim
Gordon, Burnstown Publishing
Saturday,
February 3, 2018
How
to Make a
Print- and Online Newspaper - Without Breaking the Bank
Workshop
at Algonquin College
Panelists:
- Theresa
Fritz.
Metroland
Media’s
Managing Editor until January 2018.
- Glen Gower, a
communications and marketing professional,
owner/editor of StittsvilleCentral.ca, an independent news and
information source for the Stittsville area.
- Anita Murray, a
career journalist with more than 25 years as an editor and writer at
the Ottawa Citizen.
- Patrick
Langston. a freelance writer at the Ottawa
Citizen for 17 years.
Margaret
Graham Awards Presentation
to Gabrielle Van Looyen
from CarletonUniversity
Tuesday,
November 21, 2017
David
Mulholland discussed his latest book
Chaudière Falls
www.davidmulholland.ca
Margaret
Graham Awards Presentation
to Rebecca
Atkinson
from Algonquin College
Tuesday October 24, 2017
The Health of Ethnic
Media
Panelists:
- Czeslaw
Piasta, editor, online newspaper Komunikaty Ottawskie
- Myka
Burk, host/producer award-winning/Peabody nominated German show on CHIN
radio, and feature writer, Ottawa Life magazine
- Jagjeet
Sharma, co-host of Asian Sounds, CKCU radio; and
- Waclaw
Kujbida, producer of the Rogers television program, Polish Review.
Tuesday September
19, 2017
Access to
Information and Privacy (ATIP) and Right to Know Week.
Tejeshwar
"TJ" Sharma, Senior
Advisor at Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAC)
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