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Michael Hall, managing editor Fort McMurray Today, died recently at the age of 52 of a heart attack. He had been ME since 2003 and had joined the paper in 1994. Bryan Cantley retired from the Canadian Newspaper Association as VP of Member Services on June 22, 2007. He will continue to administer the National Newspaper Awards and assist CANE in raising its profile. He can be reached at bcantley@cna-acj.ca. The CNA's new Director of Member Services is Susan Down, formerly with the Victoria Times Colonist, as a reporter and columnist and more recently in the paper's marketing department. Gregg McLachlan, associate managing editor of the Simcoe Reformer, has launched a new website, NewsCollege.ca. It's full of tips on writing, reporting, and editing that Gregg has collected and written over the years for his printed newsletter, The Write Way.
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Editorial Tips on the CANE website in the
"resources" section have grown and have been reorganized.
Our expanded Best Practices area, which features several editorial content and marketing ideas from a 2003 competition, also has a new study on diversity in Canadian daily newsrooms. Membership drive is on; check out the qualifications for active and associate membership in CANE and then fill in the form. Seminars for 2008: Wordstock 2008 will be held Sept. 20 at the Ryerson School of Journalism in Toronto. For the second year in a row, emphasis will be on video journalism. Also, APME's vaunted NewsTrain, featuring some of North America's best newsroom trainers, will be coming to Hamilton in November for two days. Fee is just $50 pp. See below.
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CANE Seminars: The Canadian Newspaper Association and CANE are continuing to co-organize seminars. For more information, contact Susan Down at CNA at sdown@cna-acj.ca.
On the schedule for 2008 so far are:
- Wordstock, 13th anniversary Sept. 20
- NewsTrain, One of the best bargains in traioning anyywhere is a two-day session organized by NewsTrain, NewsTrain, the two-day program created bythe Associated Press Managing Editors (APME) for frontline newspaper editors. It will be hosted byThe Hamilton Spectator, November 10-11. Instructors include Ellyn Angelotti, interactivity editor for Poynter Online and Michael Roberts from The Arizona Republic. Cost is only $50 includinglunch each day. Space is limited. Watch the CNA website for registration. For more information,contact Susan Down at the Canadian Newspaper Association at sdown@cna-acj.ca
For more information on ongoing seminars, go to the CNA website at http://www.cna-acj.ca and click on the events
and seminars button.
Canadian Association of Newspaper Editors - a brief history
The Canadian Association of Newspaper Editors (CANE)
was created in 1999 when members of the 51-year-old Canadian Managing
Editors Conference (CMEC) voted to change the name of their association
and broaden its mandate to become a resource for newspapers editors in
Canada.
Unlike its predecessor, which existed only to hold an annual conference
and largely appealed only to a newsroom's senior editor (ie., managing
editor), CANE promises to provide a year-round support organization for
anyone who serves an editor in a newsroom with responsibility for
staffing and content.
