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21 Feb

Dave Agar, Jon McComb among 7 broadcasters receiving RTDNA Canada lifetime achievement awards

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/RTDNA_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p>Newstalk 1010’s Dave Agar and CKNW’s Jon McComb are among the seven journalists who will receive RTDNA Canada lifetime achievement awards this year.The award honours individuals from across Canada who have distinguished themselves in broadcast journalism.</p>

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20 Feb

Hannah Yoon wins Tom Hanson Photojournalism 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/Hannah Yoon_0.JPG" title="" /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjfprograms/sets/72157641218246013/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Yoon</a>, a Loyalist College student and a freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in the <em>Kitchener-Waterloo Record</em>, has won the Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award.</p>

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20 Feb

Dan Rowe is J-Source’s new book review editor

<p><strong>By Bruce Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief</strong></p><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/Dan Rowe_0.JPG" title="" />I’m pleased to welcome Dan Rowe as J-Source’s new book review editor.</p>

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19 Feb

B.C. journalist Peter Clemente has died

<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/Peter Clemente_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong style="font-size: 10px;">By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Peter Clemente, a veteran Vancouver broadcast journalist, died from an undisclosed illness on Feb. 12.</p>

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19 Feb

Journalism veteran Peter Desbarats died at 80

<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/Desbarats_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Peter Desbarats, an award-winning journalist who worked with Global Television and was the former dean of the University of Western Ontario’s graduate school of journalism, died at age 80. </p>

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5 Feb

CTV Vancouver managing editor Ethan Faber joins JHR in Sierra Leone

<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/Ethan Faber.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" />Ethan Faber, managing editor and assistant news director for CTV Vancouver, will travel to Sierra Leone on Feb. 8 to lead human rights workshops and mentor local radio and TV reporters. </p>

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4 Feb

Long-time Sherbrooke Record editor Charles Bury dead

<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/Charles Bury_0.PNG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" />Charles Bury, longtime editor of the <em>Sherbrooke Record</em> newspaper and former chair of the Canadian Association of Journalists, died from advanced liver cancer at 67.</p><p>Bury ran the only daily English-language newspaper in the Eastern Townships, according to CBC Montreal.</p>

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3 Feb

New station 105.9 The Region provides local news for York Region

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/105.9 FM The Region_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>York Region, a suburb of Toronto, has a new independent radio station that started airing local news, traffic and weather programming in December. The station, <a href="http://www.1059theregion.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">105.9 FM The Region</a>, will celebrate its official launch on Feb. 5.</p>

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31 Jan

Amber Schinkel named co-host of Global Calgary’s Morning News Show

<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/Amber Schinkel_0.PNG" title="" /> Amber Schinkel will join Scott Fee as co-host of Global Calgary's <em>Morning News Show</em> on Feb. 3. She replaces Susanne Fox, who left the show in December to pursue a master’s in communication<em>.</em></p>

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30 Jan

Susan Delacourt receives Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism

<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/Susan Delacourt_0.JPG" style="font-size: 10px;" title="" /><em>Toronto Star</em> political journalist Susan Delacourt will be awarded the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism on April 10. The award acknowledges a journalist whose work explains how public policy affects Canadians and provides insight into the policy-making process.</p>

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