The Internet may have changed everything, but let's face it, most Americans still get a lot of their news and information from local TV news. And the principles of getting local TV coverage remain the same: Keep it simple and direct and relevant to the day's...
Attention: Assignment/Photo/City Editors Five hundred dippers are expected to brave Lake Ontario's icy waters at Oakville's Coronation Park again this year during the 24th annual Courage Brothers' Polar Bear Dip for World Vision, an event that has become a Greater Toronto Area New Year's Day tradition....
To the attention of news / assignment / education / international business / health editors After receiving honours in France and Chile, La Presse and Radio-Canada have named Richard E. Tremblay "Personality of the Week." Prof. Tremblay was presented with this award on Sunday for his contributions over more than...
From global warming to rap music, athletics to politics, World Book's latest reference sources are the places to "Look it up!" and "Learn more." CHICAGO -- When it comes to looking it up, World Book proves, with The World Book Encyclopedia 2009 and Discovery Encyclopedia, why its reference...
Editor's Note: Working in West Virginia, is a recurring feature in which The State Journal sends staff writer Ann Ali throughout the state experiencing the variety of jobs that make up the Mountain State. HUNTINGTON - I may as well just come clean right at the start and say that...
Here is the printed version of the report of the editor as presented to the ARIA meeting on August 2008. SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION STATISTICS (JULY 14, 2008) Table 1 providesresubmissions, since a new submission number is assigned to a manuscript resubmitted after revisions. The numbers in...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was the preeminent fashion photographer and editorial portraitist in the U.S. throughout his 60-year career. Serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II, Avedon was assigned to the photography unit and learned his trade making identification portraits. After the war, he found...
Attention: Assignment, Health, News, Editors The Board of St. Michael's Hospital announced today that President and CEO Jeff Lozon has decided to leave St. Michael's Hospital, effective June 1, 2009. At that time Mr. Lozon will assume the position of President and CEO of Revera, a large North American provider...
A panel discussion on how a business leader ethically and strategically communicates during a crisis is scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday at the Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills. "Crisis Communication: The Ethics of Conflicting Voices" is being co-presented by the Tulsa chapters of the...
'I tell her she's to the right of Ghengis Khan and get retorts like "you're left of bloody Stalin"' INTERVIEWS BY ADAM JACQUES Diana Hawkins 70 has been Sir Richard Attenborough's business partner for 50 years. After starting as his publicist in 1959,...
Editors Note: A photo for this release will be available on the CP picture wire via Marketwire. Attention News/Assignment Editors: At its annual general meeting in Ottawa last week, Colin Clark (Executive Vice-President at Brookfield Renewable Power) was reappointed as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Hydropower...
Byline: By MEL BOOTH Sports Editor JENNY KITCHEN is helping Valley St James C challenge in Division II of the Huddersfield Badminton League - and she's five months pregnant! She played extremely well to help capture three points in their 8-1 win against a depleted Spen...
Attention News/Assignment Editors: Media are invited to celebrate 10 years of the Canadian Hydropower Association at the Forum on Hydropower on November 4 and 5 at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. Speakers, including National Energy Board CEO Gaetan Caron and BC Transmission Corporation's CEO Jane Peverett, will address issues...
Attention News/Assignment Editors: Media are invited to celebrate 10 years of the Canadian Hydropower Association at the Forum on Hydropower on November 4 and 5 at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. Speakers, including National Energy Board CEO Gaetan Caron and BC Transmission Corporation's CEO Jane Peverett, will address issues...
Leadership Directories has launched Checks andBalances, a brand new Congressional blog, just in time for the elections.Visitors can access Checks and Balances through a button on the LeadershipDirectories home page ( www.leadershipdirectories.com ). Checks and Balances will feature regular posts by Leadership DirectoriesCongressional Editor Nick Connizzo. Connizzo will comment on...
Big ideas in collaborative public management. Ed. by Lisa Blomgren Bingham and Rosemary O'Leary. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 2008 306 pages $89.95 Hardcover JF1351 Collaborative public management concerns the use of several government agencies to...
FINALLY, THERE IS some official recognition that the Oakland Police Department has bungled the yearlong investigation of the murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey. District Attorney Tom Orloff, apparently realizing that the police department cannot be trusted, has assigned his own investigators to try to solve the case....
Byline: By ANDREW HIRST Deputy News Editor A JET ski expert has mysteriously vanished off a holiday isle. A large-scale air and sea search is underway off Bali to find 41-year-old Jeremy Hoyland from Penistone. The married dad of two has not been seen...
ATTN: Health, Education, Medical Editors and Assignment and News Desks DID YOU KNOW THAT... - A quarter of all Canadian children are overweight or obese? - By the end of high school, children will have spent 15,000 hours watching TV and only 500 hours in...
Over the years, while on reporting assignments around the world, I've often been struck by how so many of the worst events happen in the most beautiful of places. Flying over the awesome lakes and rainforests of eastern Congo, it's hard to imagine that in the villages...
