Arnold Amber

Arnold Amber is both an award winning journalist and a committed activist. He is an Executive Producer with CBC Television News in Toronto. In his previous position as Executive Producer of TV News Specials he was a three time winner of the Gemini Award. Before joining the CBC, he was a reporter for the Toronto Star as well as a correspondent for Reuters in Africa and Europe. For the past seven years he has been Director of The Newspaper Guild Canada. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists and President of the Board of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, an organization dedicated to world-wide protection and promotion of the rights of journalists. He has an MA in politics from Queen's University.

Making Contact

Email: arnold_amber@hotmail.com

Sandra Abma

Sandra Abma is a broadcast journalist who has covered Ottawa’s cultural scene for more than a decade. During that time she has worked as a reporter for CBC Radio’s The Arts Report, a commentator on Newsworld, a film reviewer, and as the host of a music program on CBC Radio. For the past five years she has worked as a Regional Arts Reporter with CBC Radio, part of a national program to integrate news and information about Canada's arts community into regular programming and newscasts.

Making Contact

Email: sandra_abma@cbc.ca

David Akin

David Akin is among the first of a new generation of journalists, working simultaneously as a reporter in print and television. Mr. Akin holds concurrent positions as National Business and Technology Correspondent for CTV News and as a Contributing Writer for The Globe and Mail. Prior to his appointment to this position in August, 2000, Mr. Akin was a member of the inaugural staff of the National Post, where he was a senior technology reporter. Mr. Akin studied history at the University of Guelph. He and his family live in Oakville, Ont.

Making Contact

Tel: 416-313-2503 Email: dakin@ctv.ca / dakin@globeandmail.ca

Jim Armour

Born and bred in St. John's, Newfoundland, Armour came to the black art of political spin doctoring purely by accident. "It was the only job that paid me for saying things that used to get me detentions in High School," he said. So, with a B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill on the wall, Jim went to work for Preston Manning in 1994. As Manning's Director of Communications from 1997 to 2000, Jim had a front-row seat for one of the most fascinating periods in recent political history-the transformation of the Reform Party into the Canadian Alliance.

Following the 2000 Leadership Race he spent five long weeks with Stockwell Day (pre-wet suit) before being mercifully tossed from the Freedom Train. A firm believer in "pull my finger" communications, Jim found his questionable talent was best suited to the world of advertising and is now a senior consultant with Hawk Communications Incorporated.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-235-4295 Email: jim.armour@hawk.ca

Marsha Barber

Now a journalism professor at Ryerson University, Marsha has a decorated journalism career. She holds a B.A. from McGill and an M.A. from University of Toronto/OISE (thesis topic: the construction of the hero tale in television news and documentary). She spent 10 years at CBC, where she was, most recently, a senior producer at the National Magazine. Before that she was a documentary producer at the Magazine and Prime Time News specializing in investigative pieces, for which she won several awards. Marsha also worked as a producer for The Journal from 1989-1992.

Recently, she has become involved in conducting training sessions for CBC reporters and producers. Before joining CBC, Marsha worked for CTV (from 1986-89) and TVOntario, and did freelance work for The Globe and Mail, Canadian Press, The Toronto Star, CFRO radio and other outlets. She teaches Introduction to Broadcasting-TV and Broadcast Reporting.

Making Contact

Tel: 416-979-5000 ext. 6295 Email: m2barber@ryerson.ca

Maude Barlow

Maude Barlow, an outspoken crusader for Canadian sovereignty and against control of the global economy by giant multi-national corporations, is the Volunteer Chairperson of The Council of Canadians. She is the author or co-author of eleven books, including the best selling Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada’s Schools, as well as MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty and, most recently, Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule. Her autobiography, The Fight of My Life: Confessions of an Unrepentant Canadian, was published in 1998. She lives in Ottawa and has also been active in battles for women's rights and public ownership and control of fresh water.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-233-4480 Ext. 234 Email: jstory@canadians.org

Diane Benson

Diane Benson has been a reporter, anchor and public affairs host. As News Director of Ottawa radio station CHEZ-FM, she co-ordinated coverage of breaking news stories, federal, provincial, municipal elections and other major news events. She is currently a sessional lecturer at Carleton University ‘s School of Journalism.

Co-chair of this conference, she is president of the National Capital Chapter of the Canadian Association of Journalists and has served on the National Board of the Radio and Television News Directors Association of Canada.

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Stephen Bindman

Stephen Bindman is currently special advisor to the Department of Justice and a governor of the Law Society of Upper Canada. Until 1998, he was the legal affairs correspondent for Southam News. He is a former president of the Canadian Association of Journalists and a governor of the Canadian Journalism Foundation and National Newspaper Awards.

Making Contact

Email: sbindman@justice.gc.ca

Mike Blanchfield

Mike Blanchfield covered the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from Washington, Boston, New York, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Afghanistan. Previous foreign assignments have taken him to Kosovo, where he covered the liberation of the ethnic Albanian population by NATO troops, and other locations in East Africa, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, the United States and the Balkans. He covers military and international affairs for the Southam News Ottawa bureau.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-751-3338 Email: mblanchfield@thecitizen.southam.ca

Keith Boag

Keith Boag is an experienced national and international reporter and was recently appointed Ottawa Bureau Chief for CBC Television News. He first joined CBC in 1983 as a reporter with the New Brunswick supper hour show in Fredericton. Two years later, he moved to the newsroom in Montreal. In 1987 he joined network news in Toronto and a year later became national reporter for British Columbia. In 1995 he became a foreign correspondent in Washington then moved to South Africa before returning to Canada in 1999. Born in Montreal, he has a degree in history from McGill University and completed a graduate program in journalism at Carleton University.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-751-3409 Email: Keith_Boag@cbc.ca

Rick Boychuk

Rick Boychuk is the editor of Canadian Geographic, which has twice in the past four years been named Best Magazine of the Year by the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors and has, since 1995, been nominated for 45 National Magazine Awards. He is a former reporter with the Edmonton Journal and the Montreal Gazette and the author of Honour Thy Mother, a work of non-fiction published by Penguin. He was awarded a Gemini Journalism Fellowship in 1986 and won a gold National Magazine Award for Investigative Journalism in 1989.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-740-2009 Email: boychuk@canadiangeographic.ca

Sharon Burnside

Sharon Burnside is The Toronto Star's Assistant Managing Editor for Training and Personnel. She has looked after training and internship programs in The Star newsroom since July of 1998. She organizes workshops and seminars, brings in guest speakers, arranges outside training for individuals and recruits copy editors.

She has a BA and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Ontario and earned her first degree while she worked in her first newsroom at The Owen Sound Sun Times. Burnside was city editor when she left The Sun Times in 1986 for a copy editing job on the night desk at the Ottawa Citizen. During her 10 years in Ottawa she did a variety of editing jobs before her appointments as night news editor and managing editor.

Making Contact

Tel: 416-869-4301 Email: sburnsi@thestar.ca

John Carchrae

John Carchrae has been chief accountant at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) since November 1996. He oversees accounting and auditing matters arising in the administration of the Ontario Securities Act -- particularly matters relating to disclosure. He provides specialised accounting advisory services to the Commission, its management and staff, and market participants. Carchrae also participates in national and international accounting standards boards. Before joining the OSC, Carchrae was the assistant director of accounting standards at the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, which sets accounting standards for all Canadian companies. Carchrae trained as a chartered in London, England, and was admitted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1974. He was admitted as a member of The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1978.

Making Contact

Tel: 416-593-8222 Email: jcarchrae@osc.gov.on.ca

Rita Celli

Rita Celli is the Ottawa co-anchor of CBC Television's supper-hour newscast, Canada Now. Previously, she co-hosted CBC Radio One's Ottawa Morning, the most popular morning show in the nation's capital. In 2000, she and three other CBC Radio journalists won a CAJ award for Breach of Trust, a story about a pedophile ring in Cornwall, Ontario. Celli also won a CAJ Award in the mid-1990s for a report on the effects of mining on the indigenous people of Peru. She has been with CBC for 11 years. A native of Sudbury, she graduated from Carleton University's School of Journalism in 1991.

Making Contact

Email: Rita_Celli@cbc.ca

Richard Cleroux

Richard Cleroux is a freelance reporter on Parliament Hill, working for the Times of London and a number of international publications. As well he writes a regular column on politics for the Law Times and is a regular commentator on Radio Canada's Tous les Matins du Monde, Matin Express and occasionally on CBC Newsworld. Cleroux was a founding member of the Centre for Investigative Journalism in 1979 and has 37 years experience in journalism including 17 years with the Globe and Mail in various bureaux across Canada. He has won National Newspaper and National Magazine awards. He has been in Ottawa since 1985.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-730-0203 Email: cleroux@istar.ca

Sheila Coles

On June 21, 1993 Sheila Coles began hosting The Morning Edition, Saskatchewan’s current affairs program on CBC Radio, which won the CBC Radio Awards for Programming Excellence in the category of "Best Regional Daily" in 1993, 1994 and 2000. Prior to hosting The Morning Edition, Sheila was the producer for the Saskatoon bureau of CBC News Hour, Saskatchewan’s early evening television news program. Her assignments have included weekend anchor/reporter and writer/broadcaster for CBC television, and relief host for the regional radio programs The Noon Edition and The Afternoon Edition. She also filled in as a radio network producer during the summer of 1992. During 1987-88, Sheila taught journalism at China Central television in Beijing. She has assisted in training new hosts at CBC nationally. She is originally from Newfoundland and moved to Regina in 1981 to study journalism.

Making Contact

Tel: 306-347-9507 Email: Sheila_Coles@cbc.ca

Robert Cribb is an investigative reporter with The Toronto Star, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, co-founder of Open Government Canada, a national coalition fighting for greater access to public information, and a lecturer at Ryerson University's School of Journalism. His series on food safety regulation in 2001 triggered Canada's first public disclosure system for eating establishments and won the CAJ's computer-assisted reporting award.

Making Contact

Tel: 416-869-4411 Email: rcribb@thestar.ca

Derek DeCloet

Derek DeCloet writes about financial services and the capital markets for the Financial Post, the business section of the National Post. He is the former investment editor of Canadian Business magazine. Prior to that, he covered politics and economics for several publications in Western Canada, including B.C. Report magazine. DeCloet graduated from Carleton University with a journalism degree in 1996.

Making Contact

Email: ddecloet@nationalpost.com

Rosaleen Dickson

Rosaleen Dickson spent 32 years running the venerable Shawville, Quebec weekly newspaper, THE EQUITY. She has held public office, been chosen Citizen of the Year, crossed over into TV and radio, and that was just her résumé into the 1980s. As a senior, she worked for The Hill Times, which is owned by her eldest son, Ross. In her 70's, she co-authored three books on Freenet and HTML. She met Mackenzie King and she has met Jean Chrétien. While a senior, she worked on her Masters in Journalism at Carleton University and spent a year teaching journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-232-1837 Email: rosaleen@flora.org

Bill Doskoch

Bill Doskoch has been working as a journalist since 1986 and has worked in the online medium since 1997. He was the lead web producer on globeandmail.com's 2000 federal election web site, which was a finalist in the breaking news category of the Online News Association awards. Another of his projects, The Farm Crisis for Non-Farmers, was a 1999 finalist in the CAJ's conflict analysis category and took first place in the issues category of the American Agricultural Editors' Association.

Making Contact:

Tel: 416-957-8441 Email: bill.doskoch@bgminteractive.com

Mike Duffy

Mike Duffy is one of the most recognizable broadcasters on Parliament Hill. In his more than 20 years on the federal political scene, he has participated in more than his fair share of scrums.

After working in print and radio, Duffy became CBC television's senior political correspondent in Ottawa in 1977, where he was known for eliciting major scoops and interviewing prime ministers and politicians of all stripes. He moved to Baton Broadcasting in 1988 where he spent 10 years as host of Sunday Edition for Baton/CTV stations, drawing in half a million viewers each week.

Duffy currently hosts the popular "live from Parliament Hill" interviews that are featured daily on CTV Newsnet when the House of Commons is sitting, as well as regularly providing his lively commentary and insights on Canadian political happenings enjoyed by CTV Newsnet viewers across the country.

Theresa Ebden

Theresa Ebden writes about corporate credit, bonds and the Canadian dollar for Bloomberg News in Toronto. Her stories appear in North American newspapers, including the New York Times, and major Canadian daily newspapers such as the National Post and the Globe and Mail. In addition to working as a wire reporter, she has worked at The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and The Telegram in St. John's, Newfoundland. Ebden graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic University with a B.A.A. in Journalism in 1998.

Making Contact

Email: tebden@bloomberg.net

Frema Engel

Frema Engel is a Canadian pioneer in the treatment of workplace traumatic stress. Her firm, Engel & Associates, provides counsel and trauma response services to large organizations, including a number of leading news outlets. In 2001, on behalf of Newscoverage Unlimited, she developed a mutual support training program to acquaint journalists with how they can help colleagues who have witnessed horror while covering the news. For two years, she wrote a newspaper column on workplace issues.

Engel has also written more than a dozen professional articles on trauma-related issues and two books. The first, Le stress post-traumatique et les victimes d'actes criminels, is a handbook for professionals on post traumatic stress and victims of crime. Her most recent opus, Taming the Beast: Getting Violence out of the Workplace (Ashwell Publishing, 1998) is a practical introduction for anyone interested in learning about workplace trauma as well as a management guide on how best to respond and prevent a recurrence. In 1999, she was voted Montreal's Woman of the Year, in recognition of her long-standing advocacy for victims of violent crime.

Dr. Anthony Feinstein

Anthony Feinstein, completed a study last year (commissioned by The Freedom Forum) of the psychological difficulties - including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - among 170 war correspondents. He is currently an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Director of the Neuropsychiatry Program at Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Science Center.

Dr. Feinstein obtained his medical degree in South Africa, completed postgraduate training in Psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital in London and his Ph.D. through the University of London and the Institute of Neurology. He leads an active research program and received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study mental health issues in post-apartheid Namibia. He recently published "In Conflict", a journal about his time as a conscripted medical officer in the South African army during the Namibian war in 1983.

Robert Frank

Robert M. Frank founded Newscoverage Unlimited, a mutual support organization for newspeople who witness horror while reporting the news. He has, since 1999, reported freelance for The New York Times. He began his career in television news with the CBC, hosted a radio current affairs morning show on Baffin island, and later worked as a spokesman for several large organizations. His observations of the media covering the September 1998 crash of Swissair 111 spurred the Newscoverage Unlimited initiative. An account of this was published by the United Nations in September 2001 in the book "Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills: International Protectors and Providers: Peacekeepers, Humanitarian Aid Workers and the Media in the Midst of Crisis."

Jock Ferguson

"I get to spend my days investigating corporate crime, stock market frauds and anti-trust offences for Kroll Inc. The only downside is that I do not get to write about any of it. Kroll is the world's leading firm of corporate investigators and forensic accountants, with 55 offices in 18 countries, including four offices in Canada. I was an investigative journalist with The Globe and Mail for 13 years and more recently in television for 60 Minutes at CBS, the fifth estate at the CBC and the BBC and Channel Four in England.

"During my journalism career I exposed political corruption, real estate scams, corporate cartels, price-fixing and stock market frauds. Along the way I was lucky enough to win a few awards including a Michener Award, a Michener Fellowship and an IRE award.

"I believe I have been sued more times than most of my colleagues - losing only once - and in the past 30 years did not endear myself to many politicians and businessmen."

Making Contact

Website: http://www.krollworldwide.com

Doug Fischer

As arts editor for The Ottawa Citizen, Doug Fischer makes daily decisions about the tone and scope of arts coverage in the capital. He brings to the task more than 30 years of experience in newspapers and wire services. Prior to becoming arts editor in 2000, Fischer held a variety of positions, including managing editor of Southam News, chief news editor, features editor, assignment editor and sports editor of The Ottawa Citizen. In 1987, he was co-winner of the Michener Prize for Journalism for Southam’s Literacy Project, which he supervised and edited.

Making Contact

Email: dfischer@thecitizen.southam.ca

Matthew Fraser

Matthew Fraser is a journalist, author and academic, specializing in media, culture and communications. He is a professor in Ryerson Polytechnic University's School of Radio and Television Arts as well as a faculty member of the York-Ryerson Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. Dr. Fraser was educated at the University of Toronto, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Carleton University, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, Université de Paris-I-Panthéon (Sorbonne), and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

He often works as an adviser to government and the private sector on broadcasting and telecommunications issues, writes a regular column on media industries in the National Post and hosts a weekly television program on the media. He is married to lawyer Rebecca Gotlieb and lives in Toronto. They have one son, David, and a bichon frisé puppy called Oscar.

Aaron Freeman

Aaron Freeman is a writer and advocate on government ethics and corporate accountability issues. Aaron’s column, Money and Influence, runs every other week in The Hill Times, Canada’s parliamentary newspaper, and his work often appears in Canada’s leading newspapers and other publications. From 1993 to 2000, he served as the associate editor of the Washington, DC-based Multinational Monitor magazine, and he remains a regular contributor.

A former "Nader’s Raider" at Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law in Washington, D.C., Aaron is also a founding director of Democracy Watch, Canada’s leading democratic reform organization. Democracy Watch advocates for limiting the undue influence of lobbyists and political donations, and reforming Canada’s government ethics rules.

Aaron is a graduate of McGill University and the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where he was awarded the Gowling Strathy & Henderson Prize for International Trade Law.

Aaron lives in Ottawa, where he provides consulting services to non-profit organizations.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-237-9809 Email: freeman@medialine.com

Mark Frutkin

Mark Frutkin has viewed arts reporting from both sides - as a novelist who has been short-listed for a Governor-General’s Award for Fiction and as the Canadian literature critic for Amazon.com. The author of six novels - including Atmospheres Appollinaire and the recent Slow Lightning - and three collections of poetry, Frutkin has had his work published in the United States, England, Holland and India. As an arts journalist, his work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Magazine and a number of other publications.

Making Contact

Email: mfrutkin@sympatico.ca

Brian Gibson

Brian Gibson and the equities team oversee the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan's $10 billion worth of stocks. His department also closely monitors the corporate governance activities of the companies in which they invest. Last July, Gibson criticized Nortel Networks Corp. for burying important information about new executive stock options, deep within its pages of official regulatory filings. During his 22-year career, Gibson has managed various types of stock portfolios, including those of insurance companies, a chartered bank, pension and mutual funds. He joined Teachers' in 1995 as a portfolio manager. He was appointed vice-president in 1999. Gibson received his MBA from the University of Toronto and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Making Contact

Website: www.otpp.com

Manon Globensky

Manon Globensky covered the aftermath of September 11 for Radio-Canada, first in Washington as the US started bombing Afghanistan, then in Pakistan and Afghanistan itself. She went to Kabul in December, a week after the Taliban left and stayed there for a month to report on the realities of war for Afghans.

In January, with six colleagues, she was awarded a special Prix de la radio from Radio-Canada's vice-president for radio.

Ms. Globensky has worked as a journalist for CBC's French Services since 1985. She was first posted to Ottawa, with CBC's regional French Radio station, CBOF, primarily covering municipal politics in Hull and Ottawa. She moved to Toronto in 1991 as a National Correspondent for Radio-Canada. In 1994, Ms. Globensky was appointed to the Ottawa Radio-Canada Hill Bureau as Parliamentary Correspondent. Among Ms. Globensky's earlier international assignments, she was sent to Moscow at the end of 1999 to report on the arrival of the Millennium. She was assigned to Macedonia and Kosovo in June 2000, just as KFOR entered Kosovo and refugees were returning to their devastated homes and villages.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-751-3536

Wayne Grady

A magazine journalist since 1980, Wayne Grady has been the editor of Harrowsmith and Equinox magazines, has contributed to most major magazines in Canada, and currently writes a natural history column for Explore magazine. He has also written eight books of science and nature, including The Quiet Limit of the World, about global warming in the Far North, and the Bone Museum, about dinosaurs and birds and the finality of extinction. He lives in the country north of Kingston, Ontario, with his wife, the writer Merilyn Simonds.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-924-9658 Email: grady@ripnet.com

James Hale

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Rosa Harris-Adler

Rosa Harris-Adler, winner of two National Magazine Awards, is editor of the vibrant and eclectic Ottawa City magazine and a regular columnist for the Ottawa Citizen. During her freelance career, her work appeared in Saturday Night, Chatelaine, Canadian Geographic, Equinox, Canadian Business, Report on Business magazine, Canadian Living and many other publications. She has a Masters of Journalism degree from Carleton University.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-230-9830 Ext. 17 Email: rosa@capitalpublishers.com

Bob Harvey

Bob Harvey has been the religion editor of the Ottawa Citizen for more than a decade, and a journalist for more than three decades in newspapers, and CBC Television. He also did a brief stint in Catholic television in the United States. He is the author of The Future of Religion, a collection of profiles of religious thinkers.

Making Contact

Email: bharvey@thecitizen.southam.ca

Raymond Heard

In a 40 year career in Canadian journalism and communications, Raymond Heard has served as Washington correspondent and managing editor of The Montreal Star and Vice President, News and Current Affairs, of Global Television. He has also worked for the London Observer and written for the Economist and Financial Times. He is now a Toronto-based communications consultant.

Lisa Hébert

Lisa Hébert is an award-winning radio producer who has been with CBC radio for 17 years. She has worked in Vancouver, Toronto (on As It Happens) and is currently the Network Producer in Ottawa, gathering material for the national shows. Her own radio work includes Behind the Blue Wall: Police and Racism in Urban Canada, which was nominated for a Peabody Award (in 1990). Her Ideas documentaries include From Purdah to Politics, which won the CAJ Award in Conflict Analysis in 2000 She has a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Carleton University.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-562-8464 Email: lisa_hebert@cbc.ca

Stephen Heckbert

A native of Prince Edward Island, Stephen Heckbert has a variety of occupations in his background, including journalist, press secretary, advertising executive and public relations practitioner. A graduate of the University of Prince Edward Island and of Carleton University's Masters in Journalism program, Stephen has worked with a variety of media organizations in the past, including the CBC, the Sherbrooke Record, and the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal.

He also worked as the press secretary to the New Brunswick Minister of Finance during Frank McKenna's third term in office before joining Corporate Communications Limited, Atlantic Canada's leading advertising, marketing and communications firm, in 1998. While at CCL, Stephen worked for a variety of senior clients, including Irving Oil Limited and Aliant, before moving to Ottawa to work as the Vice President of Communications for Eastern Canada for EDS Canada, Canada's leading global information technology services company. Stephen and his wife Susan have two young boys, Michael and Robert, and now live in Ottawa.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-787-4664 Email: stephen.heckbert@eds.com

Dean Jobb

Dean Jobb teaches media law at the School of Journalism, University of King's College in Halifax. He has been a reporter and editor for The Chronicle-Herald since 1984. His current assignment is investigative reporting. He also writes a column on politics and legal issues. A winner of the Atlantic Journalism Award and the Canadian Bar Association's Justicia Award for legal journalism, he has been a finalist for National Newspaper and National Magazine awards. He is the author of four books, including an examination of the Westray mine disaster, and a frequent contributor to Elm Street, Canadian Lawyer, The Lawyers Weekly and other publications. He was commissioned to develop a one-day media law workshop for Canadian journalists that was launched as a pilot project in P.E.I. last fall.

Making Contact

Tel: 902-423-3855 Email: djobb@is.dal.ca

Sheema Khan

Sheema Khan has her doctorate in Chemical Physics from Harvard and has done post-doctorate work at M.I.T. and McGill University. She has worked as a senior research scientists with a drug-delivery company in Montreal and is currently an associate in intellectual property law. She is the board chairperson of the Council on American-Islamic Relations - CANADA, a grassroots advocacy organization based in Ottawa. Find out more about the organization at www.caircan.ca

Making Contact

Email: sheema_khan@hotmail.com

Stephen Kimber

Stephen Kimber is Director of the School of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax where he has taught since 1983. He is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in almost all major Canadian publications. As a broadcaster, he has been an Ottawa-based current affairs producer for the CTV Television Network and a producer, writer, story editor and host for numerous CBC television and radio programs. He is the author of four non-fiction books: NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan, Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash , More Than Just Folks and Net Profits. His latest book, What Was Coming: Halifax and the VE-Day Riots will be published by Doubleday in Fall 2002. He and his wife live in Halifax. They have three children.

Making Contact

Tel: 902-422-127 Email: Stephen.Kimber@ukings.ns.ca

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Since his appointment as Canada's Chief Electoral Officer in February 1990, Jean-Pierre Kingsley has been responsible for the management of all federal electoral events, including the 1992 federal referendum, the 1993, 1997 and 2000 general elections, and numerous by-elections. Mr. Kingsley has instituted significant changes within the Elections Canada organization, as well as orchestrating and implementing major electoral reforms. Among his major accomplishments as Chief Electoral Officer are the development of the National Register of Electors (permanent voters list) and the introduction of computer use in all areas of electoral administration, from digitized geocartography to local field office communications and management.

Before his nomination by the House of Commons as Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, he held a variety of other positions in both the private and public sectors, including President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ottawa General Hospital (1977-81); and Assistant Deputy Registrar General, Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs (1987-90). In this post he was responsible for administering the conflict of interest code for Cabinet ministers, parliamentary secretaries, Governor in Council appointees and ministers' exempt staff.

Mr. Kingsley is currently a member of the board of the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) as well as a member of the International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) electoral management body. He is co-chair of the International Advisory Council to IFES. He holds a B.A. in Commerce and a Master's degree in Hospital Administration from the University of Ottawa.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-993-2224 Website: www.elections.ca

Warren Kinsella

The author of KICKING ASS in Canadian Politics has been getting a taste of his own medicine of late, getting his butt kicked by once admiring Liberals. They love his no-holds-barred verbal assaults on Stockwell Day and other political foes. But they didn't take kindly to the darling of the Liberal war room when he turned his considerable talents for drawing political blood on his own. Imagine getting Paul Martin publicly "fed up" with you! The Toronto-based lawyer has written a book on international terrorism, titled Unholy Alliances, and one about organized racism called Web of Hate. The Montreal native, a journalism graduate from Ottawa's Carleton University, was a special assistant to Jean Chretien when he was leader of the Liberal Opposition from 1990 to 1993. As a lawyer with the firm of McMillan Binch, he specializes in assisting clients on communications matters and issues management

Making Contact

Tel: 416-865-7893 Email: wkinsella@mcbinch.com

Kirk Lapointe

As Senior Vice-President, CTV News, Kirk LaPointe is responsible for all news and information programming including Canada AM, W-FIVE, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, CTV News with Sandie Rinaldo, the local news operations, CTVNEWS.com, and CTV Newsnet, Canada's 24-hour all-news network. LaPointe has more than 20 years of journalism experience. Prior to joining CTV, he was Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Hamilton Spectator, where he also managed the paper's online presence. From 1998 to 1999, he was Executive Editor of the National Post, responsible for helping with the launch of the daily national newspaper and National Post Online.

In 1997, he built a resource Web site for journalists that supplies useful Web links. LaPointe has also held numerous leadership positions including Editor-in-Chief and General Manager of Southam News (1995 to 1996); and Ottawa Bureau Chief and General News Editor at The Canadian Press (1991 to 1995). He attained his broadcasting experience at CBC Newsworld from 1989 to 1995 as a host and journalist for a variety of CBC programs.

Making Contact

Email: klapointe@ctv.ca

Gordon Legge

Gordon Legge has been a journalist and writer in Canada for more than 30 years. He began his career at the Calgary Herald in 1970 and since then has worked for a variety of news organizations including the Ottawa Citizen, Canadian Press, Toronto Star and Maclean's magazine. He was Religion Editor of the Calgary Herald from 1987 to 1999. The Centre for Faith and the Media, where he is now Director, is a new organization being established in Calgary whose goal is to foster a high standard of coverage of religion by the news media in North America. As well, it aims to assist the continent's faith communities in building bridges to the news media. Through his company, The Write Spirit, Legge is also a freelance writer focusing on religion, spirituality and international development. Gordon's participation is courtesy of the Centre for Faith and the Media.

Making Contact

Email: leggeg@cadvision.ca

Donna Leon

Donna Leon runs an independent production company based in Ottawa. She has written, produced and directed more than 100 half-hours of Canadian network television, including documentaries, series, children’s programming and drama. She is also a writer/broadcaster, radio documentary producer, and trainer who teaches at Algonquin College in Ottawa.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-253-3229 Email: leondonna@hotmail.com

Neil MacDonald

A 14-year veteran of CBC Television News, Neil MacDonald has been The National’s Middle East correspondent since 1998. He is based in Jerusalem and has reported from almost every country in the region.

MacDonald joined CBC-TV News in 1988. He was initially assigned to Parliament Hill, where, between The Ottawa Citizen and The National, he spent almost 15 years covering parliament. In 1990, he transferred to the Montreal bureau as Quebec correspondent for CBC and, after returning to Ottawa in 1994, filed reports for The National on everything from fiscal affairs to the 1997 elections and the Airbus scandal. He has reported on five federal elections. Since being assigned to the Middle East in May of 1998, Macdonald, who speaks English, French and Arabic, has covered a number of major stories - including the bombardment of Baghdad, the current intifada and the attempts to achieve peace in the region. He has also filed documentary features and special reports for various programs on the CBC network.

In his 11 year print career, MacDonald worked for three Southam papers: The Ottawa Citizen, The Montreal Gazette and The Vancouver Sun. He specialized in investigative articles, was an editor and feature writer and traveled extensively covering domestic and foreign stories.

Lynn McAuley

Lynn McAuley has been the Citizen's managing editor for almost two years. Her major responsibility is overseeing the Citizen's three weekly broad sheet magazines, special projects and weekly news feature section. She worked closely with Citizen staff through the months immediately following September 11, co-ordinating coverage of both the news sections and feature sections. She has worked at the Citizen for 19 years, starting in the sports department where she worked as feature writer, columnist and sports editor. In 1992, she became the Citizen's writing coach, overseeing staff training and development and editor of special projects. Beginning in May 1997, she became editor of the Citizen's Weekly, the Sunday broad sheet magazine. Before joining the Citizen she worked part time at United Press Canada and full-time at Toronto Life magazine.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-596-3535 Email: lmcauley@thecitizen.southam.ca

Mary McGuire

At Carleton’s School of Journalism, Mary McGuire teaches broadcast journalism, computer-assisted reporting and online reporting and publishing. She is the co-author of The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers and Journalists. She has given workshops on using the Internet for Journalists and Writing for the Web to various groups in Canada and the United States. Before coming to teach at Carleton in 1990, she was a reporter with CBC Radio News for 12 years.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-520-2600 ext.7438 Email: mmcguire@ccs.carleton.ca

Andrew McIntosh

Andrew McIntosh, 39, is a senior writer for the Parliamentary Bureau of The National Post . He is a three time National Newspaper Award-winning investigative reporter (Enterprise Reporting -1993, Business Reporting-1995; and Spot News Reporting - 2000. He was also the back-to-back winner of the CAJ Award for investigative reporting in Canadian newspapers in 1999 and 2000. He also teaches investigative research methods in the graduate degree journalism program at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-751-3337 Email: McIndolph@sympatico.ca

Bob McKeown

Ottawa-born Bob McKeown's first day at NBC News happened to be April 19, 1995, the day a bomb devastated the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. He has been a correspondent for Dateline NBC for the past 7 years. During his tenure with CBS news he was the first journalist to report live from the front lines of Operation Desert Storm, winning him one of his two Emmy’s for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story.

He has reported from more than 60 countries, covering wars and revolutions from Central America and Eastern Europe to Southern Africa and the Persian Gulf. He has contributed interviews, features and investigative stories to a number of network magazine programs. For 9 years he was co-host of CBC’s The Fifth Estate. He has produced and directed several feature length documentary films, been a radio and television host in Ottawa and Montreal and prior to his career in broadcast was a member of the Ottawa Rough Riders, on the 1973 Grey Cup Championship team.

Making Contact

Email: bob.mckeown@nbc.com

Catherine McKercher

Catherine McKercher is an associate professor at Carleton University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. A former newspaper and wire service journalist, she is co-author of the widely used textbook, The Canadian Reporter: News Writing and Reporting. Her new book, Newsworkers Unite: Labor, Convergence, and North American Newspapers, will be published later this year by the U.S. publishers Rowman and Littlefield.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-520-7577 Email: cmckerch@csc.carleton.ca

David McKie

David McKie has been an Ottawa-based reporter with CBC Radio for the past 15 years. Since 1998, he has focused his attention on the goings-on at federal departments such as Health Canada, Transport Canada and Correctional Services Canada. He has been able to use the federal Access to Information law as a starting point for many investigations on stories that have focused on issues such as Health Canada's lax laws for the approval of drugs and medical devices, and Correctional Services Canada's feeble attempts to deal with corrupt guards.

McKie is also editor of the CAJ's Media magazine.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-562-8453 Email: david_mckie@cbc.ca

Barry J. McLoughlin

Barry J. McLoughlin, President of Barry McLoughlin Associates, founded the company in 1984 and has guided its transition into a leading communications training firm in North America, with offices in Ottawa, Washington, DC, and Princeton, NJ. Barry received his Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1983, where he specialized in the study of the media's impact on government, business and public policy.

A former college teacher, television writer and broadcaster, Barry works with political leaders and senior executives from corporations, governments and associations. Over the past eighteen years, he has conducted numerous seminars in strategic communications management and has delivered keynote speeches at national conferences across North America. His published works include "Encountering the Media" and "The Practice of Media Relations"

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Joe Moulins

Making Contact

Email: Joe@moulinsmedia.com

Janice Neil

Janice Neil’s professional career covered 18 years reporting and producing for television, radio and print including stints with CBC in London (U.K.), Toronto and Regina and with TVOntario’s Studio 2 as the Ottawa Bureau Chief. In 1998, she joined Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication teaching TV journalism and professional practices and co-ordinating the school’s apprenticeship and jobs program. She has published articles on media coverage of the 2000 federal election night, local news, TV all-news and also gives workshops on media training and performance.

Email JaniceNeil@pigeon.carleton.ca

Juliet O'Neill

Juliet O'Neill was Southam News correspondent in Moscow (1989-93) during the break-up of the former Soviet Union and in London, U.K. (1993-95). She was posted to the Washington bureau of The Canadian Press during the mid-80s. Now a senior writer at The Ottawa Citizen, she maintains a keen interest in the crossroads of journalism and foreign policy.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-596-3755 Email: joneill@thecitizen.southam.ca

Karen Pauls

Karen Pauls is a journalist at CBC Radio in Halifax. In addition to news reporting, she has contributed to shows such as Tapestry, Quirks and Quarks, This Morning, and Definitely Not the Opera. She is completing a degree in Comparative Religion at Dalhousie University. In the past year, Karen has used her studies to produce a 10-part short documentary series on faith and spirituality for CBC Radio. Karen started her career in print, including a stop at the Winnipeg Sun. She has also worked in television and produced "Open For Discussion," a national current affairs show for WTN.

Making Contact

Email: karen_pauls@hotmail.com

Geoff Pevere

Geoff Pevere has been a movie critic with the Toronto Star since 1998. He is the co-author of the national bestseller Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Odyssey and the former host of CBC-Radio's Prime Time. His writing on movies and other forms of dubious distraction has appeared several magazines, periodicals and critical anthologies. He reviewed movies for twelve years on CTV's Canada AM and hosted TVO's Film International for four years. He has lectured and taught at several Canadian colleges and universities, and lives in daily fear that someday he will actually have to get a job.

Jim Poling

Jim Poling is city editor of the Hamilton Spectator.

Tim Powers

Tim Powers, a former federal Tory, joined the Canadian Alliance in 2000. During the federal election campaign of that year he worked in the War Room where he was kept busy through the campaign "trying to defend the indefensible," as he puts it. Demonstrating that he is still a glutton for punishment, Tim has since been the Canadian Alliance Insider on the CBC Newsworld program, Politics. Powers, a native of St. John’s, Newfoundland, is a senior consultant with Summa Strategies Canada Inc. and also lectures in the Faculty of Communications at the University of Ottawa.

He began his career as an advisor to John Crosbie when he was minister of fisheries. He is a former director of policy and research for Tory Leader Joe Clark. Powers has a B.A. from Memorial University, an M.A. (Atlantic Canada Studies) from St. Mary's University, and a Master of Sciences degree (Media and Communications) from the London School of Economics.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-235-1400 Email: tpowers@summa.ca

Merilyn Read

A former TV reporter with CBC television went home from work one day and decided she wanted to do her own stuff, and did she ever. Merilyn started her own production company MTR productions and has never looked back. She was instrumental in taking The Tom Green Show from community TV to MTV. After a couple of pilot attempts were unsuccessful, Merilyn stepped in and started producing the show. Her production helped take the show to the Comedy Network and then MTV. Merilyn has also made thousands of North American kids very happy. She is responsible for bringing the popular Babar elephant family to the TV screen. She produced and ensured the Babar jumped from paper to TV. Marsha has a long list of productions to her credit and continues to help aspiring stars get the big break.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-728-8616

Palagummi Sainath

Erik Schatzker

Erik Schatzker is chief of the Toronto bureau of Bloomberg News and is responsible for the company's Canadian news coverage. During his four years at Bloomberg, he's also covered the semiconductor and phone-equipment industries as a beat reporter and written features for Bloomberg Markets magazine. His September 2000 magazine story, Lucent's Fall From Grace, won first place in business writing at the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists 2000 awards. Schatzker previously was a correspondent with Bridge News and opened its bureau in Santiago, Chile. He also worked for Bridge in Toronto prior to joining Bloomberg. Schatzker earned a B.A. in History from the University of Toronto in 1993.

Making Contact

Email: eschatzker@bloomberg.net

Paul Schneidereit

Montreal-born Paul Schneidereit, 44, is a senior reporter/columnist for the Halifax Herald, where's he worked for the past 18 years. His 1999 CAR-based series on murder in Nova Scotia, Who's Killing Who, won an Atlantic Journalism award for enterprise reporting, the national Justica award for reporting on justice issues and a nomination as a finalist for the CAJ's inaugural CAR award. He's currently national vice-president of the CAJ.

Making Contact

Tel: 902-426-1124 Email: pauls@herald.ns.ca

John Scully

Professional trainer John Scully's award-winning journalism career started four decades ago in his native New Zealand. From there he spent nine years with the BBC before being recruited to help start the news service at Global Television. Scully's news and current affairs work has taken him around the world, documenting history-making events for CTV's W5, and CBC's the National, the Journal and the 5th estate. He also served as head of current affairs for Television New Zealand. Scully's documentary work was nominated for a Gemini and won numerous medals at the Houston and New York International Film Festivals.

Making Contact

Email: johnscully@sympatico.ca Website: http://www.jptvtraining.com

Levon Sevunts

Levon Sevunts of The Montreal Gazette survived a Taliban ambush that claimed the lives of three other journalists during his assignment in Afghanistan in the aftermath of Sept. 11th. A general assignment reporter in Montreal, Sevunts is an Armenian-born journalist who served with the former Soviet Army and in Armenia's active reserve forces during the war with Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabagh. He would later cover that war and an uprising in Georgia as a journalist before emigrating to Canada after the independent TV channel for which he worked was shut by the Armenian government. His job at the Gazette began in 1999 with a monthly column on the former Soviet Union. He is a fluent Russian speaker who dreams of becoming a full-time foreign correspondent. He is married and has two children.

Making Contact

Tel: 514-987-2303 Email: lsevunts@thegazette.southam.ca

Alan Stanbridge

An outspoken observer of the arts and popular culture, Alan Stanbridge is an Assistant Professor in Visual and Performing Arts (Arts Management) at the University of Toronto, and a frequent commentator on CBC Radio. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Carleton University, and has published articles on postmodernism, musicology and popular music. Prior to immigrating to Canada from his native Scotland, he had a 15-year career in professional arts management, occupying senior management positions with several arts and media centres.

Making Contact

Email: alan.stanbridge@utoronto.ca

Sylvia Stead

Sylvia Stead is executive editor of The Globe and Mail and in charge of editorial convergence. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario in journalism and political science, she has been a reporter and editor for The Globe and Mail for 26 years. She has covered everything from provincial politics to courts to education news and has been national editor, managing editor of news and now executive editor. She has won The Globe and Mail's George Brown prize for editing. She is married, with two teenage daughters and lives in Toronto.

Making Contact

Tel: 416-585-5155 Email: sstead@globeandmail.ca

Elizabeth Thompson

Elizabeth Thompson has been following money and politics at the Montreal Gazette for the past 17 years, from city halls, through to Quebec's National Assembly and now on Parliament Hill. Along the way she has been twice nominated for a National Newspaper Award and has served on the CAJ's board of directors.

Making Contact

Email: EThompson@thegazette.Southam.ca

Jim Travers

In the 1980's Jim Travers spent more than six years covering Africa and the Middle East for Southam News, reporting on the Ethiopian famine, the breakdown of apartheid in South Africa, the civil war in Lebanon and outbreak of the Intifada in Palestine. Returning to Canada, he was named editor and general manager of Southam News. In 1993 he became Editor-in chief of The Ottawa Citizen, a position he held until Conrad Black bought the company in 1996. Moving to the Star, he was named Ottawa Editor and later Executive-Managing Editor, the paper's top editorial job. For family reasons, he returned to Ottawa and began writing a political column. He is married with two sons.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-237-4715 Email: jtraver@thestar.ca

Colin Trethewey

Colin Trethewey is currently the Business and Technology reporter at TheNewRO TV (CHUM Ottawa). He also anchors the afternoon drive home business updates at CFRA and The TEAM sports radio before going "live at 6" on the TV side. CHUM has four radio stations and a TV station in the same building so the convergence thing is alive and well in Ottawa. Colin has seven years of reporting/anchoring experience. Jumping out of a plane while rolling tape, and anchoring three hours of live coverage from the site of a tragic work place shooting were two of his more challenging assignments. Prior to moving to news, Colin was a sports anchor, and magazine show anchor, reporter and producer.

Making Contact

Tel: 613-789-0606 Email: colint@thenewro.com

Fred Vallance-Jones

Fred Vallance-Jones is public issues reporter and specialist in computer-assisted reporting at The Hamilton Spectator. He has taken a leading role in the newspaper's computer-assisted reporting program. He has broadcast and published numerous CAR stories and series examining topics from slum housing to the state of Hamilton's downtown core to shoddy restaurant inspections. Prior to joining the Spectator in 1999, Fred spent 15 years with CBC Radio in Ottawa, Charlottetown, Brandon and Winnipeg. Fred was the winner of the 1996 Investigative Reporters and Editors investigative reporting award for radio and a finalist for the CAJ awards in 1996 and 1999. He was twice a winner of the Manitoba Human Rights Journalism Award and was part of the Spectator team that won the 2000 B'Nai Brith Canada Media Human Rights Award for newspapers. Fred is married with four children and lives in Hamilton. He has been teaching CAR at CAJ conferences for five years.

Tel: 905-526-2499 Email: fvjones@hamiltonspectator.com

Julie Van Dusen

Versatile reporter Julie Van Dusen has worked for CBC in Ottawa for nearly 20 years and has broken many stories. Her reports are seen on The National, Canada Now, and Newsworld.

When she finished university, Van Dusen went to work for the Privy Council Office. She then went to FP News Service in Ottawa as a researcher and at Maclean's magazine as a reporter-researcher in the Parliament Hill bureau. In 1983 she joined CBC Television News in Ottawa and reported on Quebec, the public service, and Ottawa politics. In 1988 she was promoted to the national CBC TV News service.

Fluently bilingual, Van Dusen has degrees in French literature and communications from Ottawa University. She is part of one of Canada's most prolific journalistic families. Five of her siblings are reporters, her father is a former reporter and she is married to a former reporter whose father was a reporter for 50 years.

Tel: 613-751-3426

Chris Waddell

Christopher Waddell spent nine years as Parliamentary Bureau Chief for CBC TV News, responsible for election campaign coverage for the 1993, 1997 and 2000 federal elections and was jointly responsible for coverage of the Quebec referendum campaign. As Executive Producer News Specials, CBC TV, he was responsible for the Quebec referendum night program, federal election night coverage (1997, 2000), coverage of the deaths of Princess Diana and Pierre Trudeau and the 50th anniversaries of D-Day and V-E Day.

Before that, he was National Editor and Ottawa bureau chief for the Globe and Mail, reporter for the Report on Business and reporter and senior editor for The Financial Post.

Currently, Chris Waddell is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carleton University, where he holds the Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism.

Email: christopher_waddell@carleton.ca

Steve Wadhams

Steve Wadhams has been using sound to tell stories for almost 30 years at such CBC Radio programs as As It Happens and Sunday Morning. He is currently producer of CBC Radio's Out Front, a forum for Canadians to tell their own stories in their own words, using styles which vary from dramatic monologue to experimental documentary. Steve also does a lot of training, mainly for CBC. However, he recently spent three months at the BBC in London, leading workshops and working one on one with producers and reporters.

Steve has won many honours for his work. Among them are two ACTRA national radio awards; two "Major Armstrong" (American); two B'Nai Brith’s for human rights journalism; a New York award; a Gabriel; two CAJ's; a Premios Ondas from Spain for innovative radio and the one he treasures most-a Prix Italia.

Making Contact

Tel: 416-205-5920 Email: Steve_Wadhams@cbc.ca

Stephen Ward

Stephen Ward, who is associate professor at The School of Journalism, University of British Columbia, has 15 years of journalism experience as foreign reporter, editor and newsroom manager. He was the Canadian Press (CP) bureau chief in Vancouver from 1995 to 1998, and was CP’s only staff reporter in Europe from 1990 to 1994. Based in London, he covered major events such as the Gulf War, the Bosnian conflict, and the troubles in Northern Ireland. Professor Ward has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo and was a research fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University prior to joining The School of Journalism.

Professor Ward teaches courses on media ethics and the law, critical thinking in journalism and media issues. His research interests include the future of news objectivity, the education of journalists and the impact of the new media on daily journalism. He is a research associate at the UBC Center for Applied Ethics and visiting associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, also at UBC. Professor Ward is also a representative on the Professional Responsibility and Freedom Committee for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Making Contact

Email: sjward@interchange.ubc.ca

Antonia Zerbisias

Antonia Zerbisias is The Toronto Star's television columnist...for the second time. Since joining the newspaper in 1989 ... as TV columnist ... she has had a number of assignments, including Montreal correspondent and media critic. In 1997, she won the National Newspaper Award for critical writing. In previous lives, she reported for CBC-TV News in Montreal and for the business show Venture in Toronto. She holds an Honours MBA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she studied film and theatre arts for her B.A. She watches way too much TV and doesn't think it sucks.

Making Contact

Tel: 416-869-4474 Email: azerbis@thestar.ca