Calgary Herald Journalists Win Two Alberta Education News Awards
Two Calgary Herald journalists win education news awards Alberta Teachers’ Association honours journalists on April 24, 2012. A Herald photographer has been honoured for his work by the province’s teachers, while a reporter has been honoured for her work at another Alberta newspaper before joining the Herald. Stuart Gradon, a photographer at the Herald for eight years, has been given an award by the Alberta Teachers’ Association for a photo of Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School’s volleyball team after they won the provincials. Read more 
Media Moves for December 2011
Scott Fee joined the Global Calgary Morning News crew on November 9. Born and raised in Vancouver Scott has been a top tier anchor at Victoria’s CHEK-TV for about five years. View Scott Fee’s inaugural broadcast during which he describes his connection to Edmonton and now Calgary. According to Global’s website, “his career has taken him all around Western Canada, with stops in Kamloops, Vancouver, Edmonton and most recently Victoria. Scott has performed in a wide range of roles since jumping into broadcasting with stints as a producer, videographer, reporter, and over the last several years, an anchor for various stations. When not on the golf course or trying to get his mutt enough exercise, Scott loves to travel. Favourite travel spots of late: Costa Rica, the Arctic and Berlin”. Read more
SwerveCalgary Wins 2011 Digital Alberta Award for Best Digital StartUp
SwerveCalgary, a city lifestyle web portal and community news site published in-house by the Calgary Herald, won the Best Digital Start-up award at the 2011 Digital Alberta Awards. The site features original video, audio and photo galleries, and is designed to be a digital space for connecting Calgarians. The site was launched last December, having evolved from an original print publication of the same name over some six years of print production. Not resting on their laurels, the site publishers are already talking about the ‘next evolution’ of Swerve, as it continues to move from its print origins to become an full online media centre, with names like Swerve TV or Swerve Radio being included in the mix. You’ll want to check out next month’s Alberta media profile on Shelley Youngblut, the publication’s editor and University of Calgary graduate.
Can Mainstream Print Media Successfully Reinvent Itself in a Digital World?
I was doing some research for a project I was working on today and in my online travels, came across an important online magazine I didn’t know about. BackoftheBook.ca: Canada’s online magazine. Turns out the online magazine is published and edited by Frank Moher, a playwright and journalist born in Edmonton, schooled at the University of Alberta and now the Artistic Director of Western Edge Theatre in Nanaimo, BC. In an article written by Brian Brennan, who is likewise a writer with multiple talents in print, broadcast and now online journalism, theatre and music asks this question: ” Can the mainstream print media successfully reinvent itself to become as relevant to news consumers in the digital age as it used to be back in the days when readers looked to their morning newspapers for authoritative coverage of the previous day’s events?” He offers up some thought provoking answers to the question in ” Stelmach resignation leaves old-school media in the dust.” (January 26, 2011)
Calgary Herald Looking for a Multimedia Business Reporter
Calgary Herald is seeking a Multimedia Business Reporter.
http://www.mediajobsearchcanada.com/job_view.asp?jobID=21338
Marilyn
Jones is a corporate and social media advocate for individuals, small businesses
and nonprofit organizations in Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada and is the proprietor of RiverCity Productions. You can contact her
by phone at 780-695-5675 or by email at marilyn@mediamag.ca.