Media
Club of Ottawa
Executive 2018-19
President,
June
Coxon
Secretary-Treasurer.Iris
ten
Holder
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Publicity
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Board
of
Directors: June Coxon, Iris ten Holder, 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.
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Tuesday,
October 23
Speaker: Ainalem Tebeje
Topic: My
Love Story In Broken English
Where: Honeywell Room, Ottawa City Hall. Time: 6
pm- 8 pm.l
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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.
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December 2018
Social Event
Lunch
at the Lord Elgin Hotel and silent
auction fundraiser.
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February
19, 2019
Margaret Graham Award Presentation
Guest Speaker: Alberte Villeneuve Sinclair, author and newspaper columnist
Honeywell Room,Ottawa City Hall
March
19 2019
Alexandra Pope, digital editor, Canadian Geographic and
Canadian Geographic Travel
Billings Room, Ottawa City Hall
April 23, 2019
Topic: The Importance of Press Freedom, Speakers: Susan Korah and Anna Desmarais
Billings Room, Ottawa City Hall
May 21, 2019
Topic: Science Journalism, Speaker: Kathryn O’Hara, adjunct research professor, Carleton University.
Billings Room, Ottawa City Hall
June 15, 2019
AGM - Speaker:
Deanna Young, English Poet Laureate,
Lord Elgin Hotel, Mackenzie Room
Program
suggestions for the 2019-2020 season 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 2018 were Illiyana Shoushounova of Algonquin
College and Connor Oke 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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This Month:
The Importance of Press Freedom,
Speakers: Anna Desmarais and Susan Korah
Anna
Desmarais is a producer/on-air contributor with CTV Ottawa,
Newstalk 580 CFRA, and a freelance parliamentary correspondent.
An early career professional journalist, Anna had worked for Newsrooms
across the country and around the world, with bylines for CBC News,
Bloomberg BNA, TRT World News, Toronto Star, iPolitics, Global News,
and the Ottawa Citizen. Her career took her to Toronto, Kathmandu, and
Edmonton before she landed back in her hometown in 2018.
Anna, still a recent graduate of Carleton University’s
Bachelor of Journalism program (2017) hopes to become a foreign
correspondent who covers the world’s most pressing global issues.
Between shifts Anna spends all her time outside either in Gatineau Park
on her bike or with family and friends. You can also find her
volunteering with the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom,
Junior Chamber International and helping to resettle student refugees
with WUSC Canada.
Susan Korah
Susan Korah
is a journalist with a Master of Journalism degree from Carleton
University. Currently a freelancer, she has had over 20 years’
experience in journalism, and writes on a range of topics from national
and international politics, to travel and culture. Her travel stories
have been published in Taste and Travel and Travel International, Epoch
Times, Travel Post Monthly and her own blog
https://susaninwanderland.wordpress.com/ She has been invited on FAM
(familiarization) trips to several countries including Turkey, Taiwan,
Luxembourg and Ireland.
Susan has been a board member of the Canadian Committee for Press Freedom since 2008.
Dates to watch:
May 3, 2019
Press Freedom Day
The anniversary of
the Declaration of Windhoek is celebrated worldwide as World Press
Freedom Day. The Windhoek Declaration for the Development of a Free,
Independent and Pluralistic Press, short: Windhoek Declaration is a
statement of press freedom principles by African newspaper journalists
in 1991
https://www.un.org/en/events/pressfreedomday
June 15, 2019
Deanna Young, English Ottawa Poet Laureate, will speak at Media Club of Ottawa Annual General
Meeting and Brunch on June 15, 2019 at the Lord Elgin Hotel. Click here to see Deanna Young's web site.
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Remembering
David John George French
Margaret Virany (1933-2018)
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)
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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
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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
23 April 2019
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The Importance of Press Freedom,
Speakers:
Susan Korah
and
Anna Desmarais
Billings Room, Ottawa City Hall
110 Laurier Ave, West. Ottawa
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Coffee, tea and treats
Admission $10
Books about the Canadian Women's Press Club (now the Media Club) will be available for purchase:
No daughter of Mine by Kay Rex $12
The Sweet Sixteen by Linda Kay ($20)
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Previous
Meetings
19 March 2019
Speaker
Alexandra Pope,
Digital editor, Canadian Geographic and
Canadian Geographic Travel
Alexandra Pope is the digital editor of Canadian Geographic and
Canadian Geographic Travel. She previously inaugurated the role of
social media coordinator at The Weather Network and was a reporter for
weekly print newspapers. A digital native, she is keenly interested in
new forms of storytelling and the role and responsibilities of
journalism in our connected age.
19 February 2019
Margaret Graham Award Presentation
Connor Oke of
Carleton University and Iliyana Shoushounova of Algonquin College
received the Margaret Graham Award Certificate and a cheque.
Guest Speaker was
Alberte Villeneuve
Photo Credit: Baico Publshing
Alberte Villeneuve, author and newspaper columnist, discussed her
writing experiences and brought copies of her latest book
More information
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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
23 October 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.
18 September 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
(in progress)
Last update: April 2, 2019
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