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31 May

Mike Hornbrook retires from CBC Radio News

<p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/personality/michael_hornbrook">Mike Hornbrook</a> is retiring from CBC Radio News after nearly 30 years with the public broadcaster. Mike Hornbrook was the economics correspondent for CBC Radio News.</p><p>"For nearly a decade, Mike has been the steady voice of expertise and reason around the often dizzying ups and downs of economic trends affecting Canadians," said CBC managing news editor Joanne McPherson and executive director Jonathan Whitten in a memo announcing Hornbrooke's retirement. </p>

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29 May

Brandie Weikle new editor-in-chief at Canadian Family magazine

<p>Brandie Weikle is returning to Canadian Family magazine in a new role as editor-in-chief.</p><p>She was a senior editor at the magazine from 2005  to 2007 and will be starting in her new role on June 10, according to the <a href="http://canadianmags.blogspot.ca/2013/05/brandie-weikle-new-eic-at-canadian.html">Canadian Magazines blog</a>. She has also worked as the editor of <em>healthzone.ca</em> and <em>parentcentral .ca</em> at the <em>Toronto Star</em> and as the digital director at House & Home Media. </p>

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27 May

Chronicle Herald Opinions editor Bev Dauphinee retires

<p><span style="line-height: 7.95pt;">The </span><em style="line-height: 7.95pt;">Chronicle Herald</em><span style="line-height: 7.95pt;">’s long-time Opinion editor Bev Dauphinee is retiring after 35 years with the newspaper. </span></p>

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23 May

Neil Reynolds remembered

<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/Reynolds_0.jpg" title="" />Veteran newspaper editor Neil Reynolds, aged 72, died of cancer on Sunday. He is being remembered as one of the finest journalists in the country for his many contributions in newspapers across Canada.</p>

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16 May

La Presse reporter Laura-Julie Perreault named Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellow

<p>La Presse reporter Laura-Julie Perreault has been named the Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow.</p><p>Perreault will join 11 other foreign journalists and 12 American journalists as Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. She plans to issues facing women combatants as well as state building and democratization in post-dictatorial states.. The fellowship provides a stipend for living expenses and tuitions fees at Harvard University for a year.</p>

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16 May

Ray Guy: a fan’s farewell

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/RayGuy-1LR-BW-LOCKE.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Greg Locke</em></p><p><strong>By Susan Newhook</strong></p><p style="margin-left:11.35pt;"><em>A tiny preface: King's journalism grad and St. John's Telegram reporter Daniel McEachern (@TelegramDaniel) tweeted on Wednesday:</em></p>

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15 May

Peter Worthington: 10 facts about the journalist who wrote his own obituary

<p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><blockquote><em>“Looking for trouble.”</em><p><em>“The bravest journalist in this business.”</em></p><p><em>“An editorial scion.”</em></p><p><em>“A real end of an era.”</em></p>

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14 May

Publisher Doug Kelly leaving National Post

<p>Doug Kelly, the publisher of the <em>National Post</em> is leaving the newspaper at the end of May, the <a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CD4QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fglobalnews.ca%2Fnews%2F552132%2Fnational-post-publisher-doug-kelly-announces-departure%2F&ei=YWSSUZC1PKLz0gHxl4C4BA&usg=AFQjCNGWeS_BxPpLTiDB8ifuOIm7bdu33g&sig2=TK6dJVrDAEv4YBBGQ8b8nQ">Canadian Press reports</a>.</p>

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13 May

Toronto Sun co-founder Peter Worthington dies in Toronto

<p><span style="font-size: 10px;">Peter Worthington died around midnight last night in a Toronto hospital but </span><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/13/peter-worthington-1927-2013.html" style="font-size: 10px;">apparently we'll be able to see the last article he wrote </a><span style="font-size: 10px;">- his own obituary - in tomorrow's edition of the 'The Little Newspaper That Grew' that he help start in 1971.</span></p>

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6 May

Up Here online editor Ashleigh Gaul wins Greg Clark Award

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/algaul" style="font-size: 10px;">Ashleigh Gaul</a><span style="font-size: 10px;">, online editor for </span><em style="font-size: 10px;">Up Here </em><span style="font-size: 10px;">magazine about is the winner of the </span><a href="http://cjf-fjc.ca/content/greg-clark-award" style="font-size: 10px;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Clark Award</a><span style="font-size: 10px;"> for early-career journalists.</span></p>

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