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
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Program
2017-2018
December
2, 2017
Social
Lunch
at the Lord Elgin Hotel and silent
auction fundraiser.
February 3. 2018
Workshop
at Algonquin College
20 March
2018
Tim Gordon, Burnstown Publishing
40 years publishing industry
at
Ottawa
City Hall
24 April 2018
Speaker: Dwayne Winseck,
Topic: The Canadian Media Concentration Project Explained.
Panel Discussion
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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NEWS........NEWS.........NEWS........
Community
newspapers
launching in Ottawa the first week of
April. -
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
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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A R C H I V E S
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 whole 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
Meetings
held in previous years:
The
highlighted links below will show a list of
speakers for the year
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
Taking a broad and long-term view of the communications and
media landscape, ever more internet- and mobile wireless-centric, the research
highlights which media sectors are growing, whichOlive Dickason
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.Olive Dickason
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.
stagnating, those that are in
decline, and some - the music industry, in particular - that are recovering
after being dealt punishing blows over the past two decades. Winseck will
highlight which parts of the media have seen concentration levels rise and
where they have fallen. His talk will also hone in on the stature of the
digital goliaths such as Google and Facebook, which were estimated to account
for nearly three-quarters of the $5.6 billion in internet advertising revenue
in 2016.
At the same time, however, he will ague that the scale and
scope of their dominance has been exaggerated, and do so by highlighting the
unique features that set Canada apart from its international peers: Sky-high
levels of vertical integration in which all the main commercial TV services are
owned by mobile phone operators and internet access service providers (ISPs).
Moreover, unlike in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, where stand-alone
mobile operators like T-Mobile, Sprint, 3, Vodafone, and so on battle their
“wired” rivals, in Canada the biggest companies’ - ie Bell, Rogers, Telus,
Quebecor and Shaw - control the ‘wired internet’, mobile wireless networks, and
cable television distribution. This is called diagonal integration.
These realities, Winseck argues, subordinate television,
journalism and the other media forms to telephone companies that know little
about the media and cultural industries. They also bring about the high cost of
internet and mobile wireless services, and low data caps, all of which
constrain who gets to communicate what to whom under what terms. They also skew
the policy and regulatory arena around the dynamics of ‘noblesse oblige’
politics whereby the main media and journalistic associations and unions sidle
up to the biggest players in the hope that, by playing nice, the telecom giants
will treat them well - which has thus far proven to be a grave mistake, with
lay-offs galore and media workers’ loss of control over their work and working
conditions.
This “closed system” mentally also puts media unions and
professional associations on the wrong side of citizens’ interests when it
comes to values like net neutrality - where Canada distinguishes itself with
something of the ”gold standard” in the world - as they join forces with the
companies to advocate for policy tools that would gut net neutrality, keep data
caps low, and usher in website blocking schemes that pose threats to the
rule-of-law, free expression and privacy values, and the principles upon which
democracy in Canada has been built. Crucially, such advocacy also distracts our
attention away from what could be done to improve the state of journalism and
media.
Journalists, policy-wonks, lawyers, academics, students, and
citizens in general who find such issues fascinating will find this event of
interest, with lots to ponder and debate.
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2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
to be updated as soon as possible.
A web savvy volunteer to help with this task will be welcome. For more
information use this email
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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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June 16, 2018
Enjoy
Brunch and tour of the Ottawa Art Gallery
When: Saturday, June 16, 2018
Where: Lord Elgin Hotel,
MacKenzie Room
100 Elgin St. Ottawa
(613) 235-3333
Time: 9:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.
Choice of brunch buffet or lunch
There will be a
Silent auction fundraiser for the
Melba Lent Woelflé Award
(Please bring a small item for the auction)
9:30 - brunch at the Lord Elgin Hotel, McKenzie Room
(Order from menu - prices start at $19 per person)
11:00-12 Noon - Speaker Michael Wollock, publisher of community papers, will discuss his decision to start local papers after Metro stopped publishing
1:05 - share taxis (or walk) to Ottawa Art Gallery
1:15 – We will meet at the Daly Street entrance of the Gallery. A Gallery educator will escort us on a 45 minute tour of Personal Storytelling:
Explore How Artists Express Their Truths.
Kindly RSVP 613-521-4855
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Previous
Meetings
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 Professor will discuss 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 will be 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 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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