Loyalist College wins newspaper awards for excellence

Submitted by rwashburn on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 2:28pm.

Winners: Carissa Cosgrove, Dean's Representative and graduating Print Journalism student at Loyalist College accepts the first place award for general excellence in the college and university class at the annual Ontario Community Newspapers' Association annual awards banquet.Winners: Carissa Cosgrove, Dean's Representative and graduating Print Journalism student at Loyalist College accepts the first place award for general excellence in the college and university class at the annual Ontario Community Newspapers' Association annual awards banquet.Loyalist College's campus/community newspaper, The Pioneer, won the general excellence award, along with a best photography award for one of its photojournalism students Friday night at the Ontario Community Newspaper Convention.

General Excellence Awards recognize overall achievement by circulation class in editorial, advertising and layout. Loyalist College placed first in its class. Algonquin College and Humber College were also nominated.

College & University Awards recognize the outstanding work of Journalism students in Photography, News Writing, and Feature Writing. Loyalist College photojournalism student Jessica Darmanin won for best photography.

Centennial College's Laura Stanley and Loyalist College students Blake MacEwan were the other nominees.

CTV Winnipeg News Director Karen Mitchell on skills for today's job market

Submitted by rwashburn on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 3:38pm.

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Karen Mitchell, the news director at CTV Winnipeg, provides a candid assessment of changes in journalism and the skills needed for today's job market. Karen graduated from the Loyalist College Broadcast Journalism program in 1990.

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