CJF AWARDS THE 16TH ANNUAL MEDIA GUESTS - THE CANADIAN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION

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THE 16TH ANNUAL
CJF AWARDS
     THE CANADIAN
     JOURNALISM FOUNDATION

MEDIA GUESTS

                #CJFawards
       The Fairmont Royal York, Toronto
               June 13, 2013

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HOST
                AMANDA LANG is the senior business correspondent for
                CBC News, contributing regularly to CBC News: The
                National. She also anchors The Lang & O’Leary Ex-
                change on CBC News Network, with Kevin O’Leary. Be-
                fore joining CBC, Lang hosted Business News Network’s
                Squeezeplay. She is a veteran business journalist who got
                her start at The Globe and Mail and Financial Post. She is
                the author of The Power of Why.

MEDIA GUESTS

       IAN AUSTEN has reported about Canada for The New York Times for
       the past decade, and has been a contributing writer with several
       magazines. He is a former Ottawa correspondent for Southam News
       and The Financial Times of Canada, and was a Washington corre-
       spondent and business writer-editor at Maclean's in Toronto.

       TOM CLARK is the host of The West Block with Tom Clark and is chief
       political correspondent for Global News. Before joining Global, he
       hosted CTV’s daily politics show Power Play with Tom Clark and was
       the Washington bureau chief for CTV National News. He has 40
       years of political and current affairs coverage under his belt.

       MARTIN REGG COHN writes the Ontario politics column for the
       Toronto Star. A foreign correspondent for 11 years, he was chief of
       the Middle East and Asia bureaus, then foreign editor, and most re-
       cently a world affairs columnist. He previously covered national poli-
       tics from Ottawa.

       JAMES COWAN is the deputy editor of Canadian Business. He also
       writes a column for the magazine, which he joined in 2009 as a sen-
       ior writer. Previously, he worked as a reporter with the National Post,
       and as an editor at Saturday Night magazine. He has also written for
       THIS magazine, EnRoute and Toronto Life.

       ANDREW COYNE is a columnist with Postmedia News. He has writ-
       ten previously for Maclean’s magazine, the National Post, and The
       Globe and Mail. His work has also appeared in a number of other
       publications in Canada and abroad. A frequent commentator on
       television and radio, he is seen regularly on CBC's The National.

BEPPI CROSARIOL is The Globe and Mail’s wine, spirits and beer
columnist. A veteran news and business journalist, he previously held
various positions at the paper, including technology editor and busi-
ness-law reporter. He has also worked at The Boston Globe, the
Financial Times of Canada and the Kingston Whig-Standard.

DEREK DeCLOET has been writing about business and finance since
the late 1990s. He joined The Globe and Mail in 2003 and began
writing Vox, the newspaper's popular investment column. He won the
2009 National Magazine Award for business writing. His column
appears monthly in Report on Business Magazine.

MARY-MAUDE DENIS has been a reporter at CBC/Radio-Canada
for eleven years, joining the award-winning Enquête program in
2008. Along with host Alain Gravel and other members of the team,
her investigations on Quebec's construction industry uncovered a
widespread system of corruption and collusion in the province.

CHRISTINE DOBBY covers telecom and media for the Financial
Post. She practised family law in Toronto before returning to school
for her master’s of journalism at Ryerson University. She has reported
for the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and the Toronto Star and
joined the Post in May 2011.

KEVIN DONOVAN is an investigative reporter at the Toronto Star.
He has won three Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, one
Michener Award and three National Newspaper Awards with the
Star. He has written ORNGE: The Star Investigation That Broke the
Story, an exclusive Star Dispatches eRead.

ROBYN DOOLITTLE is a city hall reporter with the Toronto Star. She
was previously the paper's crime reporter. In her seven years with the
Star, Doolittle has covered an Olympic Games, the Conrad Black
trial, the 2010 municipal election and, most recently, Mayor Rob
Ford's crack cocaine scandal.

ANDREW FLYNN is associate editor of the Financial Post at the Na-
tional Post. He was previously at The Canadian Press, where he
worked as assistant business editor, reporter/editor at the Parliamen-
tary bureau in Ottawa and on the Ontario Desk in Toronto, and was
a national music/pop culture reporter and Internet columnist.

DAWNA FRIESEN is the executive editor and anchor of Global
National. For 11 years, she served as a foreign correspondent and
anchor for NBC, covering international news stories. Before NBC,
Friesen worked for CTV News as a national correspondent, anchor
and back-up host for Canada AM.

MATT GALLOWAY is the host of Metro Morning on CBC Radio One,
99.1 FM, in Toronto. He has been working at CBC Radio for more
than 10 years and has hosted the programs Here & Now, The Cur-
rent and Sounds Like Canada. He sits on the boards of the Stop
Community Food Centre and the Toronto Arts Council.

MARCUS GEE joined The Globe and Mail in 1991 after stints at
Vancouver’s The Province, Asiaweek magazine, United Press, Mac-
lean’s and Financial Times Canada. Through most of his career at
The Globe, he has been writing about foreign affairs. Currently, he is
exploring his hometown of Toronto as a columnist.

JIAN GHOMESHI is an award-winning broadcaster, writer, musician
and producer. He is the host and co-creator of the national daily talk
program, Q, on CBC Radio One and CBC TV. As a writer and inter-
viewer, he has been published in The Washington Post, The Guard-
ian, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and National Post.

TAVIA GRANT has worked at The Globe and Mail for eight years,
covering socio-economic trends such as youth unemployment, mi-
gration and the rise of temp work. She writes for the paper's award-
winning blog, Economy Lab.

HOWARD GREEN is the anchor of Headline, the flagship interview
program on BNN, a network he helped launch in 1999. He is the
author of the bestselling book Banking on America: How TD Bank
Rose to the Top and Took on the USA, and is an award-winning
documentary maker.

CHANTAL HÉBERT is national affairs writer and political columnist at
the Toronto Star. In addition to her columns, she is a regular mem-
ber of the CBC’s At Issue panel, broadcast weekly on The National.

HEATHER HISCOX hosts the weekday morning show on CBC News
Network. Prior to this position, Hiscox was based in Toronto as a
reporter for CBC News: The National and also covered international
stories for the program. She has worked out of CBC's bureaus in
Washington and London, England.

SIMON HOUPT is The Globe and Mail's senior media writer,
charged with covering the industry's transformation. He has served as
the paper's New York arts correspondent, weekly columnist, and
advertising and marketing reporter for the Report on Business. He is
the author of Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft.

CAROLYN JARVIS is chief correspondent for Global News’ 16×9.
Prior to moving to Toronto in 2011, Jarvis worked as reporter and
weekend anchor for the Vancouver-based flagship newscast, Global
National. She also launched and hosted the political affairs program
Focus: Decision Canada.

NIL KÖKSAL is the weekend news anchor and host of CBC News To-
ronto. She has also served as an intern, writer, producer and video-
journalist at CBC. She is a regular substitute host on CBC News To-
ronto weekdays and contributes to CBC Radio One, CBC News Net-
work and The National.

LISA LaFLAMME is chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National
News. For over a decade, LaFlamme was on the road, covering eve-
rything from wars and elections, to natural disasters, from some of the
world’s most dangerous locations as national affairs correspondent
for the program.

LINDEN MACINTYRE is co-host of the fifth estate, CBC Television's
investigative program. Prior to joining the show, MacIntyre was a print
reporter in Halifax, Ottawa and Cape Breton. At the CBC, he hosted
The MacIntyre File, worked for The Journal, and was host and re-
gional editor for Sunday Morning. He is the author of four books.

STEPHEN MAHER is national columnist for Postmedia News, publisher
of major Canadian daily newspapers including the National Post,
Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, and Vancouver
Sun. He is former Ottawa bureau chief of the Halifax Chronicle-
Herald.

STEVE MAICH is publisher and editor-in-chief of Sportsnet magazine,
Canada’s only sports magazine for Canadian fans. Steve has served
as editor and publisher of Canadian Business magazine, and as ex-
ecutive editor and national business columnist for Maclean’s. He co-
wrote (with Lianne George) the 2009 book The Ego Boom.

HEATHER MALLICK is a staff columnist at the Toronto Star and writes
on a variety of subjects. She has previously worked at CBC.ca, The
Globe and Mail and the Financial Post. She is the author of Pearls in
Vinegar and an essay collection, Cake or Death. She has won two
National Newspaper Awards for features and critical writing.

PETER MANSBRIDGE is host of The National, CBC’s flagship news
program and all CBC News specials. He is host of Mansbridge: One
on One, and is also the chief correspondent of CBC News. His career
with the CBC spans more than 40 years, and has received 12 Gemini
Awards for excellence in journalism.

LAWRENCE MARTIN is a political affairs columnist for The Globe
and Mail and Ipolitics. He is a former bureau chief for the Globe in
Montreal, Washington and Moscow. He is the author of ten books,
six of them national best sellers. His most recent book is Harperland:
The Politics of Control.

STUART McLEAN is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist
and humorist, and host of CBC Radio program, The Vinyl Cafe. Stu-
art began his broadcasting career making radio documentaries for
CBC Radio's Sunday Morning and was a regular columnist and guest
host on CBC's Morningside.

ANNE-MARIE MEDIWAKE is the co-host of CBC News Toronto on
CBC Television. Prior to joining CBC, Mediwake co-anchored
Global Television's Toronto flagship newscast. She also helmed
CTV's investigative current affairs show 21C and reported for CTV
National News with Lloyd Robertson, Canada AM and Newsnet.

WENDY MESLEY hosts CBC's The National on Sunday evenings and
is a correspondent for the program. She has won three Gemini
Awards for her work on the CBC shows Marketplace and Undercur-
rents, and she was honoured in 2006 with the John Drainie Award
for her contribution to Canadian broadcasting.

STEPHEN MEURICE has been with the National Post since its launch
in 1998, first as front-page editor, then as night editor, managing
editor, deputy editor, and, since 2010, as editor-in-chief. He began
his career at the Sherbrooke Record and spent several years at the
Ottawa Citizen.

HUGO MILLER is a correspondent covering technology, media and
telecommunications for Bloomberg News, based in Toronto. Prior to
this position, he was based in Bloomberg’s Geneva bureau.

DON NEWMAN is the chairman of the Advisory Board of Canada
2020, a public policy forum for social and economic progress. For
over two decades, he was the senior Parliamentary editor of CBC
Television News and anchor of the CBC News program Politics. His
memoir Welcome to the Broadcast will be published this fall.

KEVIN NEWMAN is digital news evangelist, host of Question Period
and W5 correspondent for CTV News. He was founding anchor and
executive editor of Global National for a decade and has worked at
ABC, Global and CBC. His career in the United States included host-
ing Good Morning America.

CHRIS NUTTALL-SMITH is The Globe and Mail's Toronto restaurant
critic and national food writer. He has written for Esquire, New York
and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications, on
subjects including Afghanistan, Iran and the Gulf states, and push-up
thong underwear for men, which he wears to benefit dinners.

SEAMUS O’REGAN is a broadcast journalist. He was a correspon-
dent with CTV National News and former co-host at CTV’s national
morning show Canada AM. He has also reported for W5 and hosted
programs on Bravo!

SEAN O’SHEA is an investigative and consumer reporter for Global
Toronto. O’Shea is also a contributing correspondent to 16:9, the
Global News magazine program. A veteran journalist, O’Shea has
exposed organized crime figures, scam artists and unscrupulous con-
tractors, and is a passionate advocate for consumer rights.

CAROL OFF is a host of CBC Radio’s As It Happens. Off has exten-
sive experience in both Canadian and international current affairs,
has produced a number of award-winning documentaries, and is the
author of three books. She began as an arts reporter for CBC Stereo
and worked as the CBC Ottawa correspondent for Sunday Morning.

STEVE PAIKIN is the anchor and senior editor of TVO's flagship cur-
rent affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin. For twelve years
prior to The Agenda, Paikin co-hosted TVO's Studio 2. He also hosted
TVO's weekly foreign affairs series, Diplomatic Immunity, which de-
buted in 1998.

BEATRICE POLITI is the health specialist for Global Toronto. She is
also a correspondent for Global Television’s weekly investigative
news magazine 16:9 The Bigger Picture. She has worked as a re-
porter and anchor at CBC, and served as Parliamentary reporter for
CityTV, CP24 and A-Channel in Ottawa.

JACKSON PROSKOW is Global Toronto's City Hall reporter. Jackson
began his career at Shaw TV in Calgary. He worked as a reporter,
producer, anchor and weatherman at Global in Lethbridge, Alberta,
and as a reporter at Global's sister station, CHCH in Hamilton before
moving to Toronto.

GRANT ROBERTSON is an award-winning journalist recognized for
his investigative journalism, business reporting and profile writing. He
joined The Globe and Mail as a business reporter in 2005 after five
years at the Calgary Herald. He now covers the banking sector for
Report on Business and writes for Report on Business Magazine.

LLOYD ROBERTSON is host and chief correspondent for CTV’s inves-
tigative news series, W5. With a broadcast career spanning more than
50 years, he is best known for his role as the chief anchor and senior
editor of CTV's national newscast, CTV National News with Lloyd
Robertson. He recently released his memoir The Kind of Life It's Been.

ALASTAIR SHARP is a Reuters journalist covering currency, debt and
equity markets, broader macro-economic news from the Bank of Can-
ada and federal finance ministry, as well as the resource-heavy To-
ronto stock exchange, securities regulation and structure, and the
domestic hedge fund industry.

MICHELLE SHEPHARD is the Toronto Star’s national security reporter
and author of two books. She is a three-time winner of the National
Newspaper Awards and a recipient of the Governor General’s Mich-
ener Award for public service journalism. She is producing a docu-
mentary on the Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

ALISON SMITH is host of CBC Radio's flagship news program, The
World at Six, and is a senior correspondent for CBC News. Prior to
this position, Smith was the Washington correspondent for CBC Tele-
vision. Smith covered municipal and provincial politics in Toronto
before moving to CBC-TV's The National.

BRIAN STEWART is a distinguished senior fellow at the Munk School
of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Brian is one of Can-
ada’s most respected foreign correspondents, known for his reports
for CBC’s The National, international documentaries and his show
CBC News: Our World. He now writes a column for CBCNews.ca.

DIANA SWAIN is the senior investigative correspondent for CBC
News. Swain's work is frequently seen on The National and CBC Tele-
vision's flagship investigative program the fifth estate. Swain also regu-
larly fills in as anchor of The National. She was the first woman in
Canada to win the Gemini for Best News Anchor.

BEVERLY THOMSON has been co-hosting Canada AM, CTV’s na-
tional morning show, since 2003. Her return to CTV followed six years
as the anchor of the evening newscast at Global Toronto. Previously,
Thomson spent seven years at CTV Toronto as a general assignment
reporter and weekend anchor.

THERESA TEDESCO is chief business correspondent at the National
Post. An award-winning journalist and columnist, she is also a regular
commentator on CBC radio, and has written for various Canadian
publications. She authored the best-selling book Offside: The Battle
for Control of Maple Leaf Gardens.

ANNA MARIA TREMONTI became host of CBC Radio’s The Cur-
rent in 2002 after serving as a correspondent and host on the fifth
estate. For nine years, she was a foreign correspondent for The
National, based in Berlin, London, Jerusalem and Washington. The
Current won last year’s CJF Excellence in Journalism Award.

RITA TRICHUR is a business reporter with The Globe and Mail,
Canada's national newspaper. She writes about the telecommuni-
cations industry for the Globe's Report on Business. She previously
worked at the Toronto Star, The Canadian Press and the Ottawa
Sun.

PAUL WELLS is the political editor at Maclean’s magazine. In addi-
tion to writing for Maclean’s, Wells has written for Time magazine,
the National Post, La Presse and the Literary Review of Canada. His
latest book The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and
Canada, 2006– is due out this fall.

NANCY WILSON is a host at CBC News Network. She has worked
as a reporter, host and anchor for news programs such as CTV's
Canada AM, CJOH News in Ottawa and the parliamentary bureau
of Global News. Prior to joining CBC Newsworld, Wilson worked
on CBC Television's newsmagazine The Journal.

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