Media
Club of Ottawa
Executive 2015-2016
President,
June
Coxon
Secretary-Treasurer.Iris
ten
Holder
Email:
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? The
Media
Club of Ottawa is looking for new members and for volunteers to fill
several key positions
Membership Fee is $60
Membership
Application
Program
2016-2017
19 September
2016
Meet
and Greet with community and ethnic press members.
Guest speaker: Retired journalist Thomas Virany will give a visual
presentation about the peculiar way he became a Canadian journalist. He
emigrated to Canada speaking four languages but not a word of English
and learned it on the job.
24
October
2016
Guest
speakers: Aline and Lorraine
Lafreniere. Topic: sports journalism with focus on Rio Games.
21
November
2016
Guest
Speaker: Waubgeshig "Waub" Rice,
CBC t.v. broadcast journalist, followed by Margaret
Graham
Award presentation
at Ottawa City
Hall
December
2016
Social
Lunch
at the Lord Elgin Hotel and silent
auction fundraiser.
January 24, 2017
Special
Noon Presentation
February 20, 2017
at
Algonquin College
20 March
2017
at
Ottawa
City Hall
17 April 2017
at
Ottawa City Hall
22 May 2017
Speaker:
Doris-Maria Heilmann
at Ottawa City Hall
June 2017
Saturday
date TBA - opening of
Photo exhibition of Women Journalists 1850s-1999
Program
suggestions for next year are welcome
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Quick
Links
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Program
In the News - first quarter
In
the News - second quarter
Members' News
Meeting Reports
Awards
A R C H I V E S
Meetings
held in previous years:
The
links below will show a list of
speakers for the year
to be resumed as soon as possible.
web savvy volunteer welcome. For more information email
the webmaster.
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Award
Programs
The
Margaret
Graham Award
is awarded yearly in November to students at the University of Ottawa,
Algonquin
College and
Carleton University
Recipients for 2015 were:
Amelia Buchanan, Algonquin College
Rachel Lindgren, 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 2016 was Nicole McCormick
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Next
Event
On September 19,
2016
The Media Club of Ottawa presents:
Meet and
Greet with community and ethnic press members.
Guest speaker:
Retired journalist and patent examiner Thomas Virany, BSc, will give a
visual presentation of his career at Canadian Press, CBC TV News and as
a community newspaper co-owner. He got into journalism a peculiar way
after emigrating to Canada speaking four languages but having to learn
English on the job
Billings Room, Ottawa City Hall
110 Laurier Ave. West, Ottawa, ON
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Journalism students with ID free
Media Club members and CAJ members $15
Non-members $25
Light meal provided
OR
Admission without meal: members $7, others $10
coffee and tea available for all
RSVP 613 521-4855 by September 17
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Past
Events
May 16, 2016
The
difference between
real & vanity
publishing
Speaker:
Doris-Maria Heilmann
April 18, 2016
A
Like-Hate Relationship - Social Media's Impact on Community News from
an Editorial and Business Perspective.
Speaker:
Glen Gower, communications and
marketing consultant, publisher of StittsvilleCentral.ca.
March 21, 2016
Panel
Discussion
The
Implications of
Media Concentration for Robust Journalism
Panelists: Phil Jenkins, Ottawa Citizen columnist and author; Dwayne
Winseck, professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton
University and director of the Canadian Media Concentration Research
Project since 2009; Bob Brocklebank, chair Glebe Report Association.
February 27, 2016
Twitter for Journalists
2.0
The event took
place on February 27, 2016 at Algonquin College, hosted by Joe Banks,
journalism professor at the college.
Spraker: Steve
Ladurantaye, an Algonquin College graduate and two-time
National Newspaper award winner,
head of Canadian News
and Government
Partnerships for Twitter.
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