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12 May

Robert Fife takes CAJ’s top investigative journalism award

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Robert Fife_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>CTV’s Robert Fife won the Canadian Association of Journalists top investigative journalism prize. Fife won the <a href="http://www.caj.ca/?p=3901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don McGillivray prize for investigative journalism</a> for his reporting on the Senate expenses scandal.</p>

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12 May

Katie May wins Greg Clark Award

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Katie May_1.JPG" title="" /> Katie May, a digital copy editor with the <em>Winnipeg Free Press</em>, is the winner of the Greg Clark Award for early-career journalists. </p>

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12 May

Matt Hartley leaves the Financial Post

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Matt Hartley_0.JPG" title="" /> Matt Hartley, editor of <em>Financial Post</em>’s tech desk and Post Arcade, is leaving the Postmedia newspaper to join communications agency North Strategic as its senior editor.</p><p>Hartley will leave the <em>Post</em> after five years with the newspaper and will take up his new role at North Strategic later this May.</p>

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12 May

Christine Dobby moves to Globe as telecom reporter

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Christine Dobby_0.JPG" title="" /> Christine Dobby will move to <em>The Globe and Mail</em> to cover the telecom beat.</p><p>Dobby, who currently covers telecom and media for the <em>Financial Post</em>, will fill the role vacated by Rita Trichur moving to <em>Wall Street Journal</em>.</p>

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8 May

CBC’s Linden MacIntyre, Alison Smith, Nancy Wilson announce retirement

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Linden MacIntyre, the host of <em>The Fifth Estate</em>, said he felt compelled to retire to stave off the layoffs of younger journalists at CBC who would lose their jobs as part of a $130-million budget cut. Meanwhile, <em>World at Six</em> host Alison Smith and CBC Newsnet's Nancy Wilson said they will retire soon.  </p>

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8 May

Scott Deveau joins Bloomberg as M&A reporter

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Scott Deveau_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Scott Deveau is joining Bloomberg as its merger and acquisitions reporter based in Toronto on May 12.</p>

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7 May

David Topping joins Toronto Life

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/David Topping_0.JPG" title="" />David Topping is joining <em>Toronto Life</em> magazine as its online executive editor.</p><p>Topping was recently a staff writer at <em>The Grid</em>, but was laid off in June along with three other staff. Prior to that, he was an editor with Torontoist and Toronto editor at OpenFile.</p>

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6 May

James Bradshaw named Globe media reporter

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/James Bradshaw_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>James Bradshaw is <em>The Globe and Mail</em>’s new media reporter.</p><p>Bradshaw, who is currently the postsecondary education reporter for the <em>Globe</em>, will fill in the spot that has been vacant since Steve Ladurantaye left for Twitter Canada in January. </p><p> </p>

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6 May

Richard Warnica named new National Post Toronto reporter

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Richard Warnica_0.JPG" title="" />Richard Warnica, who is a staff reporter at <em>Canadian Business</em>, will join the <em>National Post</em> as its new Toronto reporter.</p><p>According to his <a href="http://richardwarnica.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, Warnica previously reported for <em>Maclean’s</em>, <em>Edmonton Journal</em> and<em> The Tyee</em>.</p>

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5 May

Global Calgary sports anchor Grant Pollock retiring

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/GRANT_POLLOCK_0.jpg" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Grant Pollock, sports anchor and director of sports at Global Calgary, announced he will retire on May 29. </p>

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