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
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Program
2018-2019
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
at Ottawa City Hall
March
2019
at
Ottawa
City Hall
April 2019
at Otawa City Hall
May 2019
at Ottawa City Hall
June 2019
TBA
Program
suggestions are welcome
here
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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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In
memory of
David John George French
June Coxon, President of the Media Club of Ottawa, received the following letter from
Alexandre & Geneviève French
A Life Well Lived
(message en français à suivre)
Dear friends and family,
We regret to announce that our father, David John George French,
passed away peacefully on December 2nd at Kingston General Hospital
with his children, his sweetheart and a dear friend at his side.
True to himself, Papa took his leave from this world while having an
adventure. He courageously and successfully made a trip to visit his sister
Sherry, making sure to include his famed off-the-path pit stops along the
way.
As David practiced his beloved profession to the end and has a great
many friends spread across the map, we have concluded that it will be
best for our Celebration of his life to be held in the spring. We will be
sending out invitations in due course. Thank you all for having been part of our father's life and adventures
Alexandre & Geneviève French
NB! If you have any affairs to address in regards to David's Intellectual
Property practice, please contact the executors.
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Une vie bien vécue!
Chers parents et amis,
Nous avons le regret de vous annoncer que notre père, David John
George French, est décédé paisiblement le 2
décembre à l'Hôpital général de
Kingston avec ses enfants, sa bien aimée et son cher ami
à ses côtés.
Fidèle à lui-même, papa a pris congé de ce monde en pleine aventure. Il
avait courageusement réussi à faire le voyage pour rendre visite à sa
sœur Sherry, tout en veillant à inclure sur le chemin ses fameux détours enrichissants.
Étant donné que David a pratiqué sa profession
jusqu'au bout, et qu'il avaitde nombreux amis répartis sur toute
la carte, nous avons conclu qu'il serait préférable que
sa Célébration de vie se déroule au printemps.
Nous vous transmetterons l'invitation en temps opportun.Un grand merci
à tous d'avoir fait partie de la vie et des aventures de David,
Alexandre et Geneviève French
NB! Si vous avez des affaires en lien avec la pratique en propriété
intellectuelle de David, veuillez s'il vous plaît nous joindre (nous les
liquidateurs).
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NEWS........NEWS.........NEWS........
Community
newspapers
launched
in Ottawa the first week of
April.
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Residents
in Ottawa's west and south ends now have a
community paper waiting in their mailbox. Four newspapers
were
launched in April under the banner of Your Community Voice.
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.
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Remembering
David John George French
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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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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Previous
Meetings
13
November 2018
Newsboy
Speaker:
Bill
Fairbairn, author of The Printer's Devil (2112), On the Run
in
Africa (2015), Newsboy (2016), and co-author of Germaroon
(2015)
Tuesday.
October 23, 2018
The
panel
discussion scheduled for our October 23 meet had to be cancelled.
Instead, Ainalem Tebeje, who has attended some of our meetings, has
agreed to discuss her novel
My
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
Tuesday, September 18.
2018
The Pros
and Cons of Travel Writing
Panelists:
Susan Hallett, Susan Korah, Peter Johansen and Laura Byrne Paquet
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Meetings
and Social Events 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, Brenda 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 Carleton University
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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