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29 Aug

Romina Maurino leaves The Canadian Press

<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/Romina Maurino_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Romina Maurino, a business reporter with The Canadian Press, is leaving to pursue a freelancing career.</p><p>She started her career at The Canadian Press as a summer student in 2004 and then worked at its Ontario and business desks. She was also a Queen’s Park reporter.  </p>

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28 Aug

Aarti Pole joining Global National Washington bureau

<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/Aarti Pole_0.png" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>CBC reporter Aarti Pole is joining Global National as a correspondent in its Washington bureau.</p><p>Pole starts her new role on Sept. 29 and will work alongside newly appointed Washington bureau chief Jackson Proskow.</p>

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27 Aug

Mike De Souza joins Reuters

<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/Mike De Souza_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Mike De Souza will join Reuters in January as the investigative resources correspondent in Canada.</p><p>De Souza was one of five staff let go by Postmedia Network when it shut down its newswire’s parliamentary bureau earlier this year and merged the remaining staff with the political desk at the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em>.</p>

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27 Aug

Susan Bonner named host of CBC Radio’s World at Six

<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 Bonner_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Susan Bonner is the new host of CBC Radio’s <em>World at Six</em> program on Sept. 2.</p><p>The veteran CBC journalist will take over the anchor chair from Alison Smith, who retired from the public broadcaster earlier this summer.</p>

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27 Aug

Barb DiGiulio joins Newstalk1010

<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/Barb DiGiulio_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Barb DiGiulio is joining Newstalk1010 on Sept. 2. She will co-host the evening show, <em>Friendly Fire</em>, along with John Downs.</p>

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26 Aug

Tessa Sproule to launch contrarian site Vubble

<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/Tessa Sproule_2.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Tessa Sproule, the former director of digital at CBC, is launching a new site.</p>

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25 Aug

Mark Medley joins Globe as books editor

<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/Mark Medley_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Mark Medley, books editor of the <em>National Post</em>, is joining <em>The Globe and</em> <em>Mail</em> on Sept. 8.</p>

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25 Aug

CTV, CJFE protest arrest of journalist Tom Walters in Ferguson

<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/Tom Walters_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>CTV said the arrest of correspondent Tom Walters in Ferguson, Mo., was unwarranted and an infringement on freedom of the press.</p>

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22 Aug

Ryan Hicks named CBC Quebec City political correspondent

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Ryan Hicks is the new CBC political correspondent for the National Assembly in Quebec City.</p><p>Hicks currently works for the CBC in Montreal. He has also worked for the public broadcaster in Winnipeg, Prince Edward Island and Ottawa as well as Global Television and CTV in Ottawa, according to his <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanhicks1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn profile</a>.</p><p> </p>

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22 Aug

Tyler Harper leaving The Canadian Press for TheScore

<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/Tyler Harper_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Tyler Harper is leaving The Canadian Press to join TheScore as a supervising editor.</p><p>Harper, a sports reporter-editor at CP, has worked at the newswire for six years and will join TheScore on Sept. 2.</p><p>“I'm excited for a new role at a very cool newsroom,” Harper told J-Source in an email.</p>

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