33rdAnnual Awards: Judges Bios
We’d like to offer our thanks to the highly skilled professionals who generously contributed their time
and expertise as judges of the awards competition for 2009.
Nous remercions les professionnels qui ont généreusement consacré leur temps et leur talent à œuvrer en
tant que juges lors de l'édition 2009 des Prix du magazine canadien.
SPECIAL AWARDS
The awards for Best New Magazine Writer, Best New Visual Creator and Magazine of the Year are judged by
single bilingual juries of three or four people.
Magazine of the Year
Roger
Black is known for combining creative skill and
technological experience. A publication designer at Rolling Stone in the 1970s and The New York
Times in the 1980s, he was an early adapter of desktop publishing. In the mid-1990s, he led the design
of important content-rich websites such as MSNBC.com, Discovery.com and HBO.com. Some of his thoughts about
the Internet are reflected in his book Web Sites that Work (Macmillan, 1997). More recently, Black
directed the redesigns for chron.com (the Houston Chronicle’s site), Bloomberg.com and the
International Monetary Fund. Over the past 17 years, Black's design studios have rebuilt Newsweek,
Reader's Digest, Esquire, the National Enquirer, Tages Anzeiger (Zurich),
the Nation (Bangkok) and the Los Angeles Times. Current projects include the website of the
New York Sun and a major health website. He is a winner of the distinguished Professional
Achievement Alumni Award from the University of Chicago. Black splits his time between New York and Marathon,
Texas
Jim
Gourlay is publisher of Eastern Woods and
Waters and Saltscapes magazines
Joanne
Larocque-Poirier is the head of Endowments and Prizes at
the Canada Council for the Arts, where she is responsible for the design, planning, administration and
overall direction of the Council's national program of prizes, fellowships and awards for artists and
scholars. Previously, Larocque-Poirier held the positions of program officer in Writing and Publishing and
head of the Millennium Arts Fund
Charles
Oberdorf, a long-time magazine writer and editor,
received the 2007 Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement; he coordinates the Magazine Publishing
program at Ryerson University's G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education in Toronto.
Charles Oberdorf, rédacteur et rédacteur en chef chevronné, a reçu en 2007 le Prix
de la fondation pour contribution exemplaire. Il coordonne le programme d’édition de la G. Raymond Chang
School of Continuing Education de Ryerson.
Best New Magazine Writer
Dean Jobb is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of King’s College
in Halifax. He is an award-winning journalist and author
Jessica
Johnson is a senior editor at Azure magazine.
She has previously worked as a writer and editor for theGlobe
and Mail, Saturday Night, FQ, Toronto
Life, enRoute and Toro.
Rick Spenceis a Toronto writer and consultant specializing in entrepreneurship. He is the
former editor of PROFIT and University of Toronto Magazine, and a past president of the
National Magazine Awards Foundation.
Best New Visual Creator
Jason
Logan is a freelance illustrator who has done work for
the New York Times and Maclean's. He is the author and illustrator of If We Ever
Break Up, This Is My Book. Logan lives in Toronto
Daniel
MacKinnon is a Toronto-based art director with extensive
experience in both consumer and custom-published magazines. He has contributed to Toronto Life,
FASHION, MoneySense, Chatelaine, HELLO and the
TorontoStar. MacKinnon is currently the art director of the Canadian and U.S. editions of
Rouge magazine.
Lisa Walker is the creative director at 2: The Magazine for Couples. She is a graduate
of the Ontario College of Art and Design and worked as a freelance art director on numerous publications for
St. Joseph Media. Walker has served as a board member for the National Magazine Awards Foundation for several
years.
INTEGRATED CATEGORIES PANELS
Best Single Issue
Lise
Bergeron is the former senior editor of
Protégez-Vous magazine, a Montreal-based consumer publication. She is a member of the Fédération
professionnelle des journalistes du Québec (FPJQ).
An independent journalist,
Françoise Guénette was a radio reporter on various Radio-Canada public affairs shows and
co-editor of La Vie en rose magazine. She has also hosted of a number of television programs,
including Droit de parole on Télé-Québec. Guénette lives in Quebec City, where she contributes to
national radio, and regularly acts as a moderator during public meetings and debates.
Françoise
Guénette est journaliste indépendante. Elle a été
reporter à la radio de Radio-Canada, corédactrice en chef du magazine La Vie en rose et animatrice
de quelques émissions de télévision dont Droit de
parole à Télé-Québec. Guénette vit à Québec, où elle
collabore à la radio d'État en plus d'animer régulièrement des assemblées publiques
William Shields is the former editor of Masthead magazine. For the past eight years he has
served as a peer review judge for the Kenneth R. Wilson Awards, presented by the Canadian Business Press and
Magazines Canada.
Single Service Article Package
Rick Campbell
has enjoyed a 32-year career in journalism and publishing, and is
currently editor and associate publisher of the Medical Post at Rogers
Publishing
Since beginning her career by
developing the first magazine for women in mid-life, Amy-Willard Cross has written, edited
and commissioned hundreds of service and lifestyle articles. At Chatelaine she served as the health
and services editor, and for Saturday Night she wrote a column on events. Recently, Cross
started Womenmakenews.com, an online op-ed page
For eight years, Aldona
Satterthwaite was editor-in-chief of Canadian Gardening, which won multiple awards during
her tenure. After spending a "gap year" mostly travelling, Satterthwaite has now landed as the executive
director of the Toronto Botanical Garden.
Magazine Covers
Donna
Braggins has been art director of Maclean’s and
Canadian Business magazines, and is a former president of the National Magazine Awards Foundation.
She teaches at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont. Braggins’ work has won widespread recognition, including 70
National Magazine Awards and a certificate of excellence from the New York Type Directors Club.
Donna
Braggins a été directrice artistique de
Maclean’s et Canadian Business et ancienne présidente de la Fondation nationale des prix du
magazine canadien. Elle enseigne au Sheridan College d’Oakville, Ontario. Ses réalisations lui ont valu une
très grande reconnaissance, y compris 70 prix du magazine canadien et un certificat d’excellence du New York
Type Directors Club
Erik Mohr is a creative director and art director based in Toronto. He has been working
in the magazine industry for more than 10 years, developing his expertise in design, photography and
illustration. His talent for combining visual narrative and elegant design has resulted in a career that
spans the full gamut of creating—contributing to, managing and launching—award-winning magazines. Mohr has
worked with some of the biggest Canadian brands in custom publishing: Air Canada, Bell Canada, Investors
Group, Canadian Tourism Commission and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. He has received numerous industry awards
for his art direction, including recognition from the Society of Publication Designers, Canadian National
Magazine Awards, Art Directors Club of Canada and Magazines du Québec.
Erika Oliveira is an award-winning creative director who has worked for Saturday
Night, President’s Choice Magazine and O, The Oprah Magazine. She was the art director
of Gourmet, a Condé Nast publication, for almost six years. Oliveira and her creative team were
named Best Design Team of the Year in 2007 by AD Week, Brand Week, Media
Week and
Photo District News. She had also been
nominated each year for an American Society of Magazine Editors award while she worked at Gourmet,
winning gold in 2004 and 2007.
Words & Pictures
Kelly
Caldwell is the editor-in-chief and art director of
Dogs in Canada. Previously, she was a contributing writer for a number of magazines, websites and
newspapers throughout Canada and the U.S. Caldwell is also a photographer; her commercial artwork has been
featured in magazines and greeting cards, while her fine art photography portraits are held in many private
collections. She lives in Guelph, Ont.
Manon
Chevalier has been a journalist and consultant in
content creation for more than 20 years. The former executive editor at enRoute magazine, she has
also edited a number of publications written for both the general public and special-interest audiences.
Additionally, Chevalier has acted as the editorial director and creative content director at the Marketel and
Sid Lee agencies, where she continues to provide consulting services. She regularly contributes to Elle
Québec, Elle Belgique, mercedesMagazine, Vita and the University of Ottawa’s
Tabaret.
Manon
Chevalier est journaliste et consultante en création de
contenu depuis plus de vingt ans. Ex-directrice de la publication adjointe du magazine enRoute, elle
a également dirigé de nombreuses publications grand public et spécialisées, en plus d’avoir été à la tête de
services de rédaction et de création de contenu au sein de Marketel et de Sid Lee, où elle collabore toujours
à titre de consultante. Enfin, elle collabore régulièrement aux magazines ElleQuébec, Elle
Belgique,
mercedesMagazine, Vita et Tabaret de l’Université d’Ottawa.
Murray Lewis is editor-in-chief of Good Times magazine; he was also
editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest,
as well as founding editor and editor-in-chief of Our
Canada.
VISUAL JUDGING PANEL
After making a name for herself in
arts publishing at Magnum Photos in New York City, MaryAnn Camilleri returned to Toronto in
2004 to establish The Magenta Foundation, Canada’s pioneering arts publishing house. Camilleri may be best
known for championing emerging photographers through the popular Flash Forward annual competition and its new
component, the biannual Flash Forward Festival.
Paul
Dallas is an artist, illustrator and educator based in
Toronto. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art and attended a post-graduate course of study at the
Royal College of Art in London, England. His clients include the New York Times, Spin,
Vibe and PEN Canada, and he has won some 100 awards for illustration, animation and typography.
Dallas spent 10 years teaching at Sheridan College and the Ontario College of Art & Design, and is
currently the chair, Illustration at OCAD.
Since 1999, Antonio De
Luca has been art director of the Weekend Post, co-designer of the weekly magazine Saturday
Night, art director of the digital culture magazine Shift, founding creative director of the daily commuter
paper Dose, co-designer of the contemporary art publication cmagazine, founding creative director of the
general interest magazine The Walrus, and a guest professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in
Nuremberg, Germany. He is currently head of art for the new advertising agency Red Urban. De Lucaʼs work has been recognized by
the Canadian National Magazine Awards Foundation, The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration,
American Photography, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, The Society of Illustrators, and the Art
Directors Club of New York and Germany. He has given lectures, seminars and workshops on art direction
and illustration in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Munich, New York, Nuremberg, Toronto and
Vancouver.
Carmen
Dunjko has been art director of Shift and
Saturday Night, and is the co-founder of Pod 10 Art + Design in Toronto. She won 16 National
Magazine Awards for her art direction between 1992 and 2000.
Sarah
Efron is managing editor at MoneySense and
Canadian Business. Previously, she worked at Financial Post Magazine and CBC Radio
3.
A 1972 graduate of the Ontario College
of Art, Louis Fishauf began his career as an editorial designer and art director, working at
a succession of Canadian publications, including Chatelaine, The City, City Woman,
Executive, T.O. and Saturday Night. In his 13 years in
magazine publishing, he has won numerous awards, including five Gold National Magazine Awards for editorial
art direction and cover design. In 1985, during his tenure as art director, Saturday Night was named NMAF's
Magazine of the Year.
Christopher
Grimstone has more than 20 years' experience in the
advertising industry. He has broad category experience ranging from packaged goods and beauty to telecom and
beverage alcohol, domestically and internationally. An avid traveller and art collector, Grimstone has
recently joined the board of M.O.C.C.A. Toronto.
Photo editor Dolores
Gubasta is owner of the Canadian photo assignment agency KlixPix. She has kept her "good eye" on the
Canadian magazine scene setting up thousands of shoots. An ability to zoom in on good photographers and
expose emerging talent keeps her on the cutting edge of current editorial styles. This is her second
appearance at the National Magazine Awards judging visuals.
Tom
Hopkins is the former senior vice-president of Avid
Media Inc., editor of the Globe and Mail’s Toronto magazine, and a writer and editor at
Maclean’s. He has recently consulted on magazine start-ups in Russia and Ukraine.
James
Ireland has worked for more than 40 years as a designer
and art director in both London, England, and Toronto. He founded his own design group in Toronto in the
mid-1980s, which specialized in magazine and book design, and corporate branding. His publication credits
include Canadian Art, Chatelaine, Imperial Oil Review, The
Canadian, Maclean’s, Marketing, Canadian Business,
Report on Business, Toronto Life, University
of Toronto Magazine and the Ryerson Review of
Journalism. He has lectured at Ryerson University and the Ontario College of Art & Design, and has
given numerous lectures on typography and magazine design to associations across North America. Earning many
awards for his work, Ireland was the first designer to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the
National Magazine Awards Foundation. He is profiled in Canadian Who’s Who.
Carol
Moskot is the principal of Carol Moskot Design +
Direction in New York City. Her expertise encompasses the design and redesign of magazines for both consumer
and corporate titles. She is an award-winning art director who has led the creative and design direction
of Toronto Life, President's Choice Magazine, Canadian Gardening and Canadian Home and
Country.
Brian Rea is the former art director for the op-ed page of the New York Times
and a guest art director for GOOD magazine. He has produced work for books, murals, music videos and
magazines around the world. He currently lives in Stockholm.
Eden
Robbins is an editorial and commercial photographer
who's been shooting portraits, products and panoramas for 25 years. Most recently, he's joined Sugino Studio
(suginostudio.com), working in both still and motion pictures.
Lynn
Spence has been a regular guest expert on the national
television show CityLine for the past 12 years. She was a fashion and home decor stylist, as well as
the decorating and style editor for Chatelaine before starting her own interior decor consulting
business 10 years ago. Appearing regularly on stages across the country, Spence speaks about fashion and home
decor because she believes that great style should be expressed in all aspects of the way we live.
Clay
Stang is an award-winning commercial/editorial
photographer and has worked for clients such as Ford, MTV, Coca-Cola and Sony. He resides in Toronto with his
wife, Liz, and two children, Otis and Esmé.
Christopher
Wahl is a Toronto-based award-winning photographer whose
work is part of the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). His list of portraits includes
Stephen Harper, Jane Jacobs, Henry Kissenger and members of the Rolling Stones. He has worked for The New
Yorker, LIFE and VanityFair.
Editor-for-hire Doug
Wallace is perhaps the only editor you know that has been to PMB Media School and the only writer
you know published in Pig Latin. No guff!
Claire
Ward is associate editor for macleans.ca.
WRITTEN CATEGORIES
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Arts &
Entertainment
Bryan
Borzykowski is a senior editor at Canadian
Business Online by day and a freelance writer by night. He mostly covers business, politics and
entertainment and has contributed to Maclean’s, Chatelaine,
CanadianBusiness magazine, MoneySense and InsideEntertainment, among other Canadian
and international publications.
Joshua
Knelman is an arts and investigative journalist, and the
editor of Four Letter Word, a collection of fictional
love letters. His upcoming book, Hot Art, is an investigation into
the international black market of stolen paintings. He is a member of the National Magazine Awards judging
committee.
Alan A.
Vernon has been a journalist for more than 20 years. In
his current role as editorial director of Star Media Group, a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, he oversees multiple publications, including Eye
Weekly, Canadian Immigrant magazine, Real Estate News, Prestige
Homes and Sway magazine, for which is he also the associate publisher. In addition to
those duties, he has managed to become a well-respected restaurant critic, having spent more than 15 years on
Toronto's dining out circuit. His column appears regularly in Eye Weekly magazine.
Best Short
Feature
Doug
O'Neill is executive editor of Canadian Living
and is an instructor in the Magazine Publishing certificate program at Ryerson University.
Anicka
Quin is managing editor of Western Living
magazine and is a director of the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors.
Scott
Steele is a Toronto-based freelance editor, writer and
communications advisor with more than two decades' experience in the magazine industry. He was executive
editor at Canadian Business from 2000 to 2009; before that, he was senior features editor there for
two years. He also held a number of positons at Maclean's, including Vancouver bureau correspondent
and associate world editor. He is a two-time National Magazine Award nominee and has edited a number of
stories that have been up for awards. In 2002, Steele received the Maclean Hunter Award for Editorial
Excellence for best editorial/column writing. A graduate of Queen's University, where he studied philosophy,
he now spends as much of his spare time as possible pondering the metaphysical—and reading magazines, of
course—at a cottage in Port Sydney, Ont.
Business
David
Hayes is a Toronto-based freelance journalist who has
written four non-fiction books as well as scores of articles and reviews for major publications, including
Saturday Night, Report on Business, The Walrus, The New York Times
Magazine, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life (he was the magazine's media columnist in
the late 1980s) and National Post Business (he served as senior writer from August 2001 until April
2003). Hayes has won seven National Magazine Awards (Gold, Silver and Honourable Mention).
Stephen
Trumper has been a part-time instructor at Ryerson
University since 1995, teaching Advanced Magazine Editing. Most of his early working life was spent at
Toronto Life, where he was the managing editor for nine award-winning years. Trumper has also been
on staff at the Globe and Mail (as a copy editor) and Harrowsmith Country Life
magazine (as senior associate editor). He is a former vice-president of the Canadian Society of Magazine
Editors and a former board member of the National Magazine Awards Foundation, Bloorview Kids Rehab and the
Ontario Science Centre (for which he recently created a members' magazine, Next). He is currently on
the board of the Abilities Foundation, which publishes Abilities magazine. A wheelchair-user who was
on the advisory board of CBC-TV's Disability Network (now off the air), Trumper also had a five-year stint as
an executive editor at what is now Financial Post Business magazine. He is also associated with
VoicePrint, a non-profit organization that broadcasts (into more than 10 million homes on cable TV and
satellite, and through www.voiceprintcanada.com) daily "spoken word" readings of current articles from
Canada's top magazines (and newspapers) for people who are blind, low-vision or otherwise
print-restricted
Jill
Vardy is the Bank of Canada's deputy chief of
communications. Before joining the bank in 2002, she spent almost 15 years as a reporter/columnist for the
Financial Post and the CBC.
Columns
Arjun Basu
is the editorial director of Spafax and is vice-president of the board
of the National Magazine Awards Foundation.
Tracy
Hyatt is associate managing editor for Westworld
Alberta and Edmonton (where she is based) city editor for Western Living.
Leah
McLaren has been a national columnist with the Globe
and Mail since 1999. From 2002 to 2004, she served as the paper's London correspondent, and was
nominated for a National Newspaper Award for her work there. Her first novel, The Continuity Girl,
published by HarperCollins Canada and Warner US, was a national bestseller, spending nine weeks on
theGlobe and Mail bestseller list. Her writing has also been published in Toronto Life,
theSunday Telegraph, the Times of London, FASHION, Flare,
Reporton Business magazine and
the Spectator, for whom she is a regular contributor. McLaren attended McGill and Trent
universities and graduated with an honours degree in English literature. She was born in rural Ontario, grew
up in a small town and now splits her time between Toronto and London, England.
Editorial
Package
Dré Dee has been an editor at Outdoor Canada, Elm Street,
Saturday Night and Chatelaine. She is the managing editor of Rouge.
Patricia
D'Souza has held senior editing roles at
Canadian Geographic and Canadian Business magazines and is a
former editor of This Magazine. She now works in Ottawa as a communications advisor for Canada's national
Inuit advocacy organization, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
Group editorial director for
Oxygen, Oxygen special interest publications, Clean Eating and Maximum
Fitness, Jerry Kindela holds MAs in English and clinical psychology, as well as a DHS.
With more than 30 years' experience in publishing, he has served in various capacities in magazine
publishing, from copy editor to assigning editor to managing editor to editor-in-chief (and virtually all
stops in between). Kindela has played editorial upper-management roles in assorted publications, including
Muscle & Fitness, Men’s Fitness, Flex, Men's Look; as a magazine
consultant, he has helped package direct launches or soft relaunches of Inner Ear (Canadian hi-fi
publication), Oxygen, Maximum Fitness and R.I.P. (music magazine). His writing has
appeared widely in fitness and health as well as high-end hi-fi audio and video publications.
Essays
Bruce
Gillespie is a freelance writer and editor, and the
co-editor of the essay collection Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids (TouchWood Editions). He
teaches journalism part time at Ryerson University and Wilfrid Laurier University; Gillespie lives in Simcoe,
Ont., near the Lake Erie shore.
Sam
Hiyate is a principal with The Rights Factory literary
agency.
Based in Regina, Dave Oswald
Mitchell is the editor of Briarpatch magazine and an associate editor of the Sasquatch. His work has
appeared in Rolling Thunder, Upping the Anti and the Dominion.
Fiction
Katherine
Govier's ninth novel will be published in May 2010 by
HarperCollins Canada. Throughout her career, she has contributed to magazines such as Maclean’s,
Saturday Night, Toronto Life, Harpers &
Queen and The Walrus.
Jake
MacDonald has authored both fiction and non-fiction
books and has twice won an NMA Gold award for his magazine writing.
Jeff
Parker is the author of the novel Ovenman and
the story collection The Taste of Penny. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in
The Walrus, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Ploughshares,
Tin House and others. He co-edited the anthologies Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New
Russia andAmerika: Russian Writers View the United States. He is the acting director of the MA
in English in the Field of Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.
Health &
Medicine
Paul Benedetti
is a reporter and author, and has written for newspapers, magazines and
the web. He is deputy editor of J-Source.ca, and is a faculty member in the Master of Arts in
Journalism program at the University of Western Ontario.
Jennifer
Reynolds is editor-in-chief of Canadian Family
magazine.
Nora
Underwood is a Toronto writer and editor. She won a
National Magazine Award in 2006 for her story "The Teenage Brain," which appeared in The
Walrus.
How-To
Malwina
Gudowska is a Calgary-based freelance writer and the
Calgary editor of VitaminDaily.com. Formerly the Alberta reporter for FASHION magazine, her work has
also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Swerve, National Post and
PLANET.
Andy
Holloway is a 20-year journalism veteran, including more
than eight years at Canadian Business, where he was most recently features editor and in charge of
many of the magazine's special packages.
Matt
O’Grady is editor of BCBusiness magazine. He
previously worked at Vancouver, WesternLiving and Harper’s
magazines, and is a former director of the B.C. Association of Magazine Publishers.
Humour
Siri
Agrell is a Toronto-based reporter with the Globe
and Mail. Her book, Bad Bridesmaid: Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums, was published in
2007.
Margaret
Eaton is president of ABC Canada Literacy Foundation, a
private-sector voice championing adult literacy. Previously, she was executive director of the Association of
Canadian Publishers and general manager of the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association, now Magazines
Canada.
Marni
Jackson is a Toronto writer and multiple National
Magazine Award winner. Thomas Allen & Son Ltd. will publisher her new book in 2010.
Investigative
Reporting
Cooper
Langford is deputy editor at Financial Post
Magazine, where he has held senior editorial positions since 2004. Before joining Financial
Post, he was editorial director at Up Here Publishing, where he oversaw the editorial operations for a
variety of award-winning consumer and business-to-business magazines.
Marci
McDonald is a Toronto-based writer who has won seven
gold National Magazine Awards. A former bureau chief for Maclean's in Paris and Washington and
a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, she has freelanced for numerous Canadian
magazines, including Canadian Geographic, Toronto Life and The Walrus; McDonald is
the author of three books, most recently The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in
Canada.
Janice
Paskey teaches journalism at Mount Royal College in
Calgary, and writes for many magazines and newspapers.
One of a
Kind
Based in Edmonton, Joyce
Byrne is the associate publisher of the award-winning business magazines Alberta Venture
and unlimited (www.unlimitedmagazine.com). Prior to 2005, she was publisher of This
Magazine. Byrne is a director of Magazines Canada and the National Magazine Awards Foundation; she
chaired Edmonton’s ACE Awards for 2008-09.
Melissa
Kluger is the publisher and editor of Ontario’s first
independent legal magazine for young lawyers—Precedent: The New Rules of Law and Style
(lawandstyle.ca). She earned her LL.B. at the University of Toronto and was called to the Ontario bar in
2002. Kluger worked as a media lawyer in Toronto before launching Precedent in 2007.
D.B.
Scott is president of Impresa Communications Limited of
Cambridge, Ont., consultants to the magazine industry. He teaches at Ryerson University, writes an advice
column (formerly Good Question in Masthead magazine) for Masthead Online and publishes Canadian
Magazines, a daily blog about the industry (www.canadianmags.blogspot.com). He has been an editor, publisher
and freelance writer, and a frequent awards judge. Scott was president of the National Magazine Awards
Foundation in 1991.
Personal
Journalism
Kisha Ferguson
is a senior writer and producer at CBC News in Toronto. She is also the
founder and former editor-in-chief of Outpost magazine. Under her editorship, Outpost was
awarded Magazine of the Year at the 2003 National Magazine Awards.
Pat Lynch, formerly senior editor at Toro and Cottage Life magazines, is the
assistant news editor of the Globe and Mail's Life section.
Barbara
Wickens is a professional freelance writer and editor.
She is a former senior editor at Maclean's, where she worked for 17 years.
Poetry
Keith
Maillard is a professor and chair of the Creative
Writing program at the University of British Columbia. He has published 13 novels and one book of poetry,
Dementia Americana, which won a Gerald Lampert Award.
Gillian
Sze is the author of three poetry collections. Fish
Bones (DC Books, 2009) was shortlisted for the QWF McAuslan First Book Prize. She was awarded the
University of Winnipeg Writers’ Circle Prize (2004) and her short stories have been recognized in various
competitions, most recently receiving honourable mention in the 2008 QWF Writing Competition.
Poet, novelist, translator and
essayist, and member of the renga group Yoko’s Dogs, Mary di Michele is the author of eight
books of poetry, including a selected volume, Stranger in You, and two novels. Residing in Montreal,
she teaches at Concordia University in the Creative Writing program.
Politics &
Public Interest
Lynn
Cunningham is an associate professor at Ryerson
University's School of Journalism in Toronto and has more than 30 years' experience in the magazine industry.
In 1999, she received the NMAF's Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement.
Alan Echenberg
is Ottawa bureau chief and senior producer for TVO’s The Agenda with
Steve Paikin. He has been a member of the parliamentary press gallery since 1994.
Stephen
Kimber, author of one novel and seven books of
non-fiction, is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster. A former director of the School of
Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, he currently holds the Rogers Communications chair
in journalism at King’s.
Profiles
Lionel
Hughes is the founding and current editor of
Prairies North: Saskatchewan's Magazine for Good Prairie Living. He is a Ryerson graduate (1989) and
has since freelanced in radio and print.
Jessica Leigh
Johnston is an associate features editor at the
National Post. She is also an editor with Shameless, and a contributing editor to This
Magazine and the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
Siobhan
Roberts is writing a biography of Princeton
mathematician/mathemagician John Horton Conway. She is the author of King of Infinite Space: Donald
Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry, which had its beginnings as a profile for Toronto
Life.
Science,
Technology & Environment
Jennifer
O´Connor is a freelance writer whose work has been
published in This Magazine, the Globe and Mail and Chatelaine,
among others. She has worked in development at Environmental Defence and is currently a grant writer at
Ecojustice.
Oliver
Salzmann is the proprietor of Madison Press Books, which
produces books for the international publishing community. Previously, he has been the managing director of
the Taschen America, and publisher with the Quarto Group in London.
Graham F.
Scott edits This Magazine. He has formerly
worked as an associate editor at Canadian Business and as assistant editor of Precedent
magazine. His writing has appeared in Maclean's, the Globe and Mail and University
of Toronto Magazine.
Service: Health
& Family
Rick
Boychuk is a graduate of McGill University and spent 10
years working as a newspaper reporter for the Edmonton Journal and the Montreal Gazette. He
is the author of Honour Thy Mother, published by Penguin/Viking (1994). In 1989, he won a Gold
National Magazine Award for Investigative Journalism for his first magazine story, which was published in
Harrowsmith. Boychuk was the editor-in-chief of Canadian Geographic from 1995 to 2009.
Under his leadership, Canadian Geographic was named Magazine
of the Year by the National Magazine Awards Foundation (2001) and Best Magazine of the Year three times by
the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors. He is currently director of strategic communications for New
Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton and the NDP Caucus.
Diane
Hart, executive editor of Oxygen magazine and
editor-in-chief of Oxygen’s Special Issue Publications, has worked in the field of health and
fitness for numerous years. Her work has appeared in Best Health (Reader’s Digest),
Chatelaine, CanadianLiving, Glow, Homemakers, CottageLife, Today’s Parent and, of course,
Oxygen. For many years, the busy mother of two wrote a weekly newspaper column about family, fitness
and health, a period during which her writing and reporting also appeared in the Toronto Star. She’s
currently at work on her first book, Pick It, Kick It (Robert Kennedy Publications), slated for
May 2010.
Grant
Young has been in the publishing business for 22 years.
He is the owner and president of Downhome Inc., publishers of
Downhome, NL Construction, Workers Voice, and NL Motorcycle magazines. He also owns Auk Island Winery located in Twillingate, N.L.
Service:
Lifestyle
Toronto-based editor Gary
Butler has worked with REV magazine, Shift, Canadian Family, and others. He was the
final editor-in-chief of DRIVEN magazine.
Alison
McGill is the editor-in-chief of Weddingbells
magazine. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of Salon magazine and producer of The Contessa
Awards. McGill has been featured as an expert guest on a variety of media programs, including CBC Radio,
Canada AM, Breakfast Television, CityLine, eTalk DAILY,
MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic, STAR! TV, Steven and Chris and
Entertainment Tonight Canada.
Caren
Watkins is creative director at Green Living
Enterprises.
Service: Personal
Finance & Business
Charles
Campbell has edited the Georgia Straight, has worked at
the Vancouver Sun as a department head and
editorial board member, and is a contributing editor to The Tyee website. He most recently reworked
for publication an artifact novel, The Maquinna Line, written by Vancouver actress Norma Macmillan,
who was the voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Graeme
Harris is a corporate communications specialist and
former journalist who still writes freelance pieces for Canadian magazines. He is currently responsible for
all media relations, internal communications and public affairs activities of UBS AG in Canada. He has 23
years of corporate communications experience with a focus on financial services. He has occupied senior
communications roles at two of the country's major chartered banks, and has been an international liaison and
communications consultant for companies that were establishing operations in Eastern Europe.
Colleen
Seto is a freelance writer and editor, contributing to a
variety of regional and national magazines and websites. She also works as the executive director of the
Alberta Magazine Publishers Association. She has judged for both the Canadian Society of Magazine Editor
Awards and the Western Magazine Awards.
Society
Aiden
Enns is the founder and editor of Geez
magazine, based in Winnipeg, named Best Spiritual Coverage by Utne Independent Press Awards (2009). He holds
graduate degrees in journalism and religion, teaches college courses and has worked at Adbusters and
the Vancouver Sun.
Writer and editor Craille
Maguire Gillies is a former editor at enRoute, and while there shared a National
Magazine Award in 2006. She has contributed to CBC Radio, the Globe and Mail, Canadian
Geographic, PBS MediaShift and elsewhere, and helped relaunch the next-gen business publication
unlimited as a web-only magazine.
Ann
Walmsley has worked as a freelance magazine writer from
Toronto; Westport, Connecticut; Dallas; and London, and has won four National Magazine Awards for stories in
Report on Business Magazine and Cottage Life. Now based in Toronto, she most recently
served as senior writer at the CPP Investment Board.
Sports &
Recreation
Roseanne
Harvey is a writer, yoga instructor and former editor of
ascent magazine. She lives in Montreal and blogs at www.itsallyogababy.com.
John Lott has been a baseball writer for the National Post since 2000. He also
taught journalism at Centennial College in Toronto for 24 years. While teaching, he freelanced baseball
stories to Canadian and U.S. publications. Early in his career, he worked as a reporter and editor for
community newspapers in the Toronto area
Evan
Osenton is the associate editor of Alberta
Views, Canada's Magazine of the Year at the 2009 National Magazine Awards.
Travel
Alex
Bozikovic is an editor with the Globe and
Mail's travel section. He is also a writer for magazines in Canada, the U.S. and Europe such as
Azure, Dwell, Departures, Metropolis and Report on
Business.
Toronto-based freelance writer
Benjamin Leszcz has worked as an editor at Saturday Night, Toro and
enRoute.
Anita
Willis is the former editor-in-chief of British
Columbia Magazine, the regional and geographical quarterly of B.C. Under her direction, the magazine’s
50th anniversary edition (Summer 2009) sold more than 20,000 copies on newsstands, with an unprecedented 69
per cent sell-through rate.
CATÉGORIES ŒUVRES ÉCRITES –
JURY FRANCOPHONE
Arts et
spectacles
Philippe
Desrosiers est réalisateur à l’émission Les Francs
Tireurs, à Télé-Québec, chroniqueur au magazine Québec Science et reporter à l'émission Club Social
à TV5. Il enseigne la psychologie au Collège Lionel-Groulx. Auparavant, il a réalisé plusieurs
courts-métrages, a été chroniqueur à plusieurs émissions dont Bazzo.tv. Il a remporté La Course destination
monde en 1996.
Colette
Mersy est journaliste à la salle des nouvelles de la
radio de Radio-Canada. Elle a coordonné pendant plusieurs années le bulletin des nouvelles culturelles
Info-culture. De 1986 à 1998, elle a animé différentes emissions de la Chaîne culturelle de Radio-Canada,
dont Chronique du disque, Musique actuelle et L’envolée lyrique.
Née à Montréal, Julie
Sergent détient une maîtrise en études littéraires. Elle a signé des chroniques et des recensions
critiques pendant de nombreuses années dans divers journaux et magazines. Elle partage désormais son temps
entre l’UQAM, où elle est responsable de la rédaction de multiples documents d’information, et une maison à
l’allure de zoo dans Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Meilleur article
court
Christian
Bouchard a été tour à tour professeur de philosophie,
chroniqueur littéraire, directeur artistique de théâtre, conférencier et journaliste. Depuis 2007, il est
chroniqueur à l’émission Chez nous le matin sur les ondes de la Première chaîne de Radio-Canada. Il enseigne
la littérature au Collège Laflèche, à Trois-Rivières, depuis 1992 et anime régulièrement des colloques en
philosophie, littérature et pédagogie.
Passionnée de plein air,
Nathalie Schneider est rédactrice en chef du magazine Géo Plein Air depuis plus de
huit ans. Avant d'occuper ce poste qui lui a donné l'occasion d'expérimenter les sports et les
activités les plus enlevantes, elle a été rédactrice associée au secteur français au magazine
enRoute de 1997 à 2000
Journaliste indépendante depuis 19
ans, Anne-Marie Simard a collaboré à presque tous les magazines québécois et travaillé sur
plusieurs séries documentaires produites par la compagnie Pixcom Productions, Inc. Elle a été rédactrice en
chef du magazine ELLE Québec et des émissions de télévision La Revanche des Nerdz (Ztélé) et Le Code
Chastenay (Télé-Québec).
Affaires
Hélène
Baril est une journaliste économique comptant plusieurs
années d’expérience aux quotidiens Le Soleil de Québec, Le Devoir et La Presse à
Montréal.
Gérard
Bérubé est responsable de la section Économie et finance
au quotidien Le Devoir.
Marie-Agnès
Thellier est, depuis 2006, présidente-directrice
générale du Cercle des présidents du Québec, après une carrière de 30 ans comme journaliste et cadre de
rédaction, notamment dans la presse écrite quotidienne (Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montréal) et
magazine (Affaires PLUS, Finance et Investissement). Formée à l’École supérieure de journalisme de
Lille, elle est titulaire d’une maîtrise en géographie (Lille-I) et d’un MBA (Université Laval).
Chroniques
Journaliste de carrière, André
Béliveau a surtout travaillé à La Presse et à la direction des services d'information de
Radio-Canada. Il enseigne depuis 2000 le journalisme à l'Université de Montréal.
Jacques
Sennéchael est rédacteur en chef du magazine cycliste
Vélo-Mag depuis 10 ans et adore son métier. Spécialisé en sport, plein-air et tourisme, il a
notamment été journaliste pour l’émission Cap Aventure sur les ondes de TV5 et a participé à la création de
la revue Espaces.
Animatrice et journaliste,
Marie-Christine Trottier a tâté de tous les sujets. De la consommation à l'actualité en
passant par la chronique culturelle, elle a su transmettre à des dizaines de milliers d'auditeurs sa passion
pour les arts. En plus d'animer à la télé le jeu-questionnaire BLUFF, elle est à la barre d'Espace Musique
chaque matinée de la semaine.
Dossiers
thématiques
Marie-Claude
Ducas est rédactrice en chef de Infopresse, qui
couvre les communications, les médias et le marketing. En 20 ans de carrière en journalisme, elle a écrit,
entre autres, pour L’actualité, Châtelaine, Sélection du Reader’s Digest, Québec Science, The Globe and
Mail, et a été journaliste au quotidien Le Devoir.
Journaliste et auteur,
Mathieu-Robert Sauvé est président de l’Association des communicateurs scientifiques du
Québec. Il a signé des textes dans une quinzaine de publications, dont L’actualité, La Presse, Le Devoir,
Découvrir et Québec science. Il a remporté plusieurs prix pour ses articles et ses
livres.
Anne-Marie
Voisard, qui demeure active comme journaliste
indépendante, a pris sa retraite du quotidien Le Soleil en 2006. Elle y avait été embauchée en 1961
pour travailler aux pages féminines. Après une pause consacrée à obtenir un
baccalauréat en pédagogie, elle a ensuite été affectée à l'éducation. Comme journaliste, elle a touché à
tout: littérature, éditorial, dossiers à caractère social, et a même supervisé les stages en journalisme du
Soleil. En 1980, sa série d'articles intitulée «Alcool et Travail» lui a mérité le prix
Judith-Jasmin.
Essais
Marc
Bergeron a été animateur à la radio de Radio-Canada, à
Chicoutimi, pendant de nombreuses années. Retraité depuis 2004, il anime désormais des colloques et des
soirées ou des séances de formation organisés par différents organismes de la région et a animé jusqu'à
l'automne dernier les Bars des sciences régionaux.
Marie-Claude
Bourdon est rédactrice en chef du magazine
Inter- de l’Université du Québec à Montréal depuis décembre 2004 et du journal L’UQAM depuis août
dernier. Elle a aussi été rédactrice en chef de la revue Forces de 2002 à 2004 et a toujours
collaboré à de nombreux magazines, dont Châtelaine, L’actualité, Commerce, RND, Québec Science et la
Gazette des Femmes.
Jean-François
Chassay est professeur au Département d’études
littéraires de l’Université du Québec à Montréal depuis 1991. Il a publié une vingtaine de livres et
s’intéresse en particulier à la représentation du discours scientifique et des figures de la science dans la
fiction et dans le discours social.
Santé et
médecine
Charles
Côté est journaliste à La Presse depuis 1998.
Il a couvert la technologie, l’environnement et les nouvelles générales, en plus de travailler au
pupitre.
Mario
Masson travaille pour Découverte, l’émission
scientifique de Radio-Canada, depuis 1990. Il est le lauréat de plusieurs prix de journalisme tant au niveau
national qu’international.
Linda
Moussakova enseigne la biologie et organise des Bars des
sciences au cégep de Saint-Laurent. Récipiendaire du prix de l'Association de pédagogie collégiale de 2004,
elle présente également des conférences sur les liens entre l’art et la science. Son adaptation française du
livre Anatomie et physiologie humaines de E.Marieb et K.Hoehn vient de paraître aux éditions
ERPI.
Conseils
pratiques
Depuis 20 ans, Liette
Beaulieu travaille dans le monde des magazines québécois, notamment au magazine Châtelaine.
Elle a été tour à tour journaliste, adjointe à la rédaction, chroniqueuse, directrice de production
éditoriale et réviseure. Elle est actuellement rédactrice-réviseure pigiste.
Ghislaine
Rhéault a été journaliste au Soleil pendant de
longues années. Elle y a couvert l’actualité et tenu des chroniques dans les domaines suivants: cinéma,
télévision, santé, administration publique. Durant sept ans, elle a rédigé une chronique d’opinion «ad lib»
qui lui a valu en 1997 le prix Jules Fournier décerné par le Conseil de la langue française. Elle est chargée
de cours (Écriture de presse) au Département d'information et de communication de l'université Laval
depuis les années 1980. Elle continue d’enseigner depuis sa retraite du Soleil, il y a deux
ans.
Nathalie
Roy est journaliste depuis 23 ans. Après avoir commencé
sa carrière à la presse écrite, notamment au Journal de Québec, elle s'est tournée vers la
télévision où elle a été recherchiste, reporter, réalisatrice et chef de pupitre, principalement pour le
réseau TVA. Elle a collaboré à diverses émissions, dont JE, Dans la mire, Salut Bonjour et les Nouvelles TVA.
Nathalie a aussi travaillé à titre de journaliste pour des émissions de télévision en environnement et en
affaires publiques, à TV5 et Télé-Québec. Elle
a également participé à la recherche et à la scénarisation de séries documentaires pour le Canal D, qui
racontent l'histoire de gens qui ont posé un geste héroïque en sauvant la vie d'une personne en
danger. Depuis un an, elle occupe le poste de chef recherchiste de l'émission Kampaï! À
votre santé, qui porte sur l'alimentation santé.
Journalisme
d'enquête
Normand
Grondin est journaliste depuis plus de 25 ans. Il a
d’abord travaillé comme pigiste pour la presse écrite durant une quinzaine d’années. Puis comme reporter au
secteur des affaires publiques de Radio-Canada depuis 1999. Il est actuellement à l’emploi de l’émission
Enquête. Durant sa carrière, il a gagné plusieurs prix, parmi lesquels deux Gémeaux et un prix du New York
Festival en plus d’être finaliste au grand Prix Michener (2005) et au prix Judith-Jasmin (2007). Normand
Grondin a été à plusieurs reprises membre du jury de l’Association québécoise des éditeurs de
magazines.
Claude
Robillard a été journaliste et rédacteur en chef du
magazine de consommation S’en Sortir (devenu par la suite Consommation) de 1983 à 1989. Depuis 1989, il est
secrétaire général de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec. À la fin des années 1990, il
a été chargé de cours en déontologie journalistique à l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
Yves
Thériault est journaliste et documentariste. Il a
collaboré à des nombreuses émissions d’affaires publiques et séries documentaires dont Enjeux (SRC), JE en
direct (TVA) et les séries Enquêtes et Réseaux clandestins (Canal D). En 2006, il a publié Tout le monde
dehors, un livre percutant sur les faiblesses du système correctionnel québécois.
Articles hors
catégorie
Annie
Desrochers est au micro de Radio-Canada à Montréal
depuis plus de 10 ans. Animatrice à 275-Allo/Ados Radio, elle livre également la revue de presse du weekend à
l'émission de Joël Le Bigot. Tour à tour journaliste, reporter, chroniqueure et animatrice, cette quadruple
maman est tout aussi amoureuse de la radio qu'à ses débuts!
Jean-Marc
Fleury est directeur général de la Fédération mondiale
des journalistes scientifiques et titulaire de la Chaire Bell Globemedia en journalisme scientifique de
l’Université Laval, à Québec. Il a été journaliste scientifique au quotidien Le Soleil et au
magazine Québec Science. Il a gagné plusieurs prix pour ses articles.
Annie
Savoie a été rédactrice en chef adjointe à la
Gazette des femmes jusqu’en 2007. Journaliste, rédactrice, réviseure, elle a touché à tous les
aspects de la production d’un magazine. Depuis l’automne 2007, elle est rédactrice au ministère de la Famille
et des Aînés.
Journalisme
personnel
Journaliste indépendante pendant de
nombreuses années, Nicole Beaulieu a écrit pour la presse quotidienne et les magazines.
Depuis l’an 2000, elle dirige le programme de stages en journalisme de l’Université Laval, à
Québec.
Après des études en sociologie,
Hugo Léger entame une carrière en journalisme qui le mène du quotidien Le Devoir au
magazine L'actualité, en passant par MTL, le city magazine de Montréal dont il est
rédacteur en chef pendant quatre ans. Au début des années 1990, il décide de tenter l’aventure de la
publicité. Il entre alors chez Cossette à titre de concepteur-rédacteur. En 1994, il fait le saut chez Bos,
une agence de publicité dont il dirige aujourd'hui le département de création.
Curieuse insatiable, passionnée par
les êtres humains, Karina Marceau a trimbalé son micro et sa caméra aux quatre coins du
monde avant de retourner à ses racines, le Québec où elle anime, depuis 2008, l’émission Kilomètre zéro.
C’est d’abord dans le domaine du sport que Karina se démarque. Membre de l’équipe canadienne de patinage de
vitesse, elle compétitionne sur le circuit de la Coupe du Monde avant d’être envoutée par le journalisme.
Reporter (TQS, TVA), puis lectrice de nouvelles (LCN, TVA) et animatrice (TVA, RDI, SRC, TV5, TQc), cette
éternelle pigiste, mordue de sujets étoffés, va là où les projets les plus novateurs et pertinents
l’interpellent. Depuis 2004, Karina oeuvre également du côté du documentaire où elle a scénarisé, réalisé et
produit plusieurs films dont Filles de Jardinier, vendu dans huit pays. Photographe de fins de semaine,
cinéphile à temps plein et mélomane le temps qui reste, cette lectrice inassouvie, récipiendaire de nombreux
prix, aborde avec sensibilité et intelligence des réalités méconnues.
Politique et
affaires publiques
Christian
Bellavance est rédacteur en chef du CAmagazine et a été
président de la Fondation nationale des prix du magazine canadien.
François
Cardinal est journaliste depuis plus de 10 ans. Ancien
éditorialiste au quotidien La Presse, il occupe aujourd’hui la fonction de reporter spécialisé en
environnement. Également chroniqueur à l’émission C'est bien meilleur le matin, à la radio de Radio-Canada,
François Cardinal est l’auteur de l’essai Le Mythe du Québec vert, publié en octobre 2007.
Diplômé en physique à l’Université
Laval, journaliste depuis plus de 30 ans ex-directeur et rédacteur en chef de la Revue Commerce,
recherchiste et scénariste de la série documentaire Steinberg qui lui a valu trois prix Gémeaux en 1996,
Pierre Sormany est présentement rédacteur de Découverte, La Semaine verte et
L’Épicerie. Il enseigne le journalisme à l’Université de Montréal depuis 1979 et a écrit le premier
manuel de base en journalisme au Québec, Le métier de journaliste. Outre ses travaux journalistiques, il a
mené plusieurs études de prospective sur les biotechnologies, sur l’éthique biomédicale, sur les énergies
nouvelles et sur l’informatisation de la société. Celui qui est aussi auteur de science-fiction a collaboré
aux travaux de conception du Centre des sciences de Montréal et à l’élaboration de plusieurs cours donnés à
la Télé-Université de l’Université du Québec. Pierre Sormany a remporté une douzaine de prix canadiens de
journalisme scientifique ou médical. Il a reçu le prix Jules-Fournier en 1987 et la bourse Michener-Deacon en
1995.
Portraits
Jean
Bernier est directeur de l'édition aux Éditions du
Boréal depuis 1990. Il est aussi traducteur et a siégé sur de nombreux jurys de prix
journalistiques.
Aujourd’hui journaliste pigiste à la
télé comme à l’écrit, Marie-Pier Elie a été reporter au magazine Québec Science
pendant une dizaine d'années. Elle a également été rédactrice en chef de l'émission Deconstructed, diffusée
sur le réseau Discovery.
Odile
Tremblay est journaliste au Devoir dans le
secteur culturel depuis 17 ans. Entre 1992 et 1994, elle a été directrice littéraire. Elle couvre le secteur
cinéma depuis 1990, et rédige une chronique culturelle hebdomadaire depuis 1999. Elle a reçu le prix
Jules-Fournier ainsi que le prix Judith-Jasmin, dans la section Opinions.
Science,
technologie et environnement
Sophie-Andrée
Blondin a exploré plusieurs facettes du métier de
journaliste. Du monde de la culture à celui de la santé, avec des detours du côté de l’actualité régionale et
de l’économie, elle a été journaliste, recherchiste, animatrice, à la radio, à la télévision et dans la
presse écrite. Elle a joint l’équipe des Années lumière en 2003.
Jean-Marc
Fleury est directeur général de la Fédération mondiale
des journalistes scientifiques et titulaire de la Chaire Bell Globemedia en journalisme scientifique de
l’Université Laval, à Québec. Il a été journaliste scientifique au quotidien Le Soleil et au
magazine Québec Science. Il a gagné plusieurs prix pour ses articles.
Mario
Masson travaille pour Découverte, l’émission
scientifique de Radio-Canada, depuis 1990. Il est le lauréat de plusieurs prix de journalisme tant au niveau
national qu’international.
Service : Santé et
famille
Marie-Claude
Lortie est chroniqueure et critique gastronomique au
quotidien La Presse, où elle travaille comme journaliste, à divers postes, depuis maintenant 20 ans.
Elle est aussi l'auteur de plusieurs livres dont le best-seller Mangez !
Linda
Moussakova enseigne la biologie et organise des Bars des
sciences au cégep de Saint-Laurent. Récipiendaire du prix de l'Association de pédagogie collégiale de 2004,
elle présente également des conférences sur les liens entre l’art et la science. Son adaptation française du
livre Anatomie et physiologie humaines de E.Marieb et K.Hoehn vient de paraître aux éditions
ERPI.
Michèle
Vanasse possède plus de 15 ans d’expérience en gestion
de contenu, en gestion de production et en direction d’équipes dans les domaines du livre et du magazine.
Elle a, entre autres, été directrice de l’édition des Éditions Infopresse, éditrice adjointe et rédactrice en
chef de Production imprimée, responsable des chroniques culturelles et art de vivre d’ELLE
Québec et directrice de production des Éditions Chouette. Elle supervise présentement les services
artistiques de Chenelière Éducation.
Service : Mode de
vie
Journaliste indépendante pendant de
nombreuses années, Nicole Beaulieu a écrit pour la presse quotidienne et les magazines.
Depuis l’an 2000, elle dirige le programme de stages en journalisme de l’Université Laval, à
Québec
Bruno
Boutot est journaliste et consultant, spécialiste des
médias et des communautés sur le Web à boutotcom.com. Il est l’auteur de media machina, un ouvrage en voie de
publication sur les modèles d’affaires des médias sur le Web. Il a
été auparavant titulaire de la section Communications Marketing de Commerce,
co-fondateur et rédacteur en chef d’Infopresse, critique de publicité à La Presse, chef des
nouvelles au Matin, titulaire des sections Médias et Architecture à L’actualité et critique de
télévision au Devoir. Il donne des conférences et participe régulièrement à des
jurys de journalisme et de design graphique.
Journaliste animatrice aux émissions
culturelles de la radio et de la télévision de Radio-Canada depuis près de 15 ans, Johanne
Despins anime depuis septembre 2007 le magazine d’affaires publiques L’Épicerie après une incursion
de deux ans aux émissions de variétés, comme co-animatrice de La fosse aux lionnes. Elle présente depuis huit
ans les Finales du Festival en chanson de Petite Vallée et le Gala des Rencontres de
l’ADISQ.
Service: finances
et économie
La journaliste économique
Marie-Eve Fournier se spécialise dans la couverture de sujets touchant le commerce de
détail, l’agroalimentaire et la consommation. Depuis la fin janvier, elle écrit sur
RueFrontenac.com.
Yves
Gilson a été journaliste aux États-Unis et au Canada,
directeur des programmes au Centre européen de journalisme (Maastricht / Pays-Bas), conseiller européen média
en Algérie et rédacteur en chef adjoint au magazine PME. Il est conseiller en communications au Port
de Montréal.
Michel
Lord était président-éditeur de Revue
Commerce, président des Publications économiques de Groupe Transcontinental, éditeur du défunt
Montréal-Matin et directeur adjoint de l’information à La Presse. Il est maintenant
retraité de Bombardier, où il était vice-président responsable des communications et relations
publiques.
Société
Normand
Baillargeon est professeur en sciences de l'éducation à
l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Essayiste, militant libertaire et collaborateur de revues
alternatives, il a aussi été chroniqueur au journal Le Devoir et a participé à Bazzo.TV, sur les ondes de
Télé-Québec. Son livre sur l'éducation à la pensée critique (Petit cours d'autodéfense intellectuelle) lui a
valu le Prix Québec Sceptique en 2005.
Éric
Desrosiers est reporter et chroniqueur dans les pages
économiques du quotidien Le Devoir.
Françoise
Guénette est journaliste indépendante. Elle a été
reporter à la radio de Radio-Canada, corédactrice en chef du magazine La Vie en rose et animatrice
de quelques émissions de télévision dont Droit de
parole à Télé-Québec. Elle vit à Québec, où elle collabore à
la radio d'État en plus d'animer régulièrement des assemblées publiques.
Sports et
loisirs
Depuis 1984, André
Désiront couvre l’actualité reliée au domaine du voyage pour un magazine spécialisé. Il signe des
chroniques et des articles dans la section Vacances Voyages de La Presse, pour laquelle il collabore
depuis plus de 15 ans.
Claude
Péloquin a participé à la mise en œuvre du projet de
Réseau de veille en tourisme de la chaire de tourisme Transat de l’UQAM depuis ses premières heures. Ses
champs d’expertise de veille sont principalement le réseau de distribution et la mise en marché électronique
des voyages, de même que le tourisme de plein air. Il a travaillé à la réalisation de nombreux projets de
recherche et d’études de cas reliés à l’industrie touristique. Ses principales réalisations portent sur le
tourisme en hiver, les croisières, le transport par autocar, le réseau de distribution, les parcs animaliers
et aquariums, l’écotourisme, le tourisme d’aventure, le nautisme et la relâche scolaire. Il est diplômé en
gestion du tourisme et de l’hôtellerie ainsi qu’en administration des affaires, concentration
finance.
Chroniqueur/blogueur au journal Les Affaires, René Vézina pratique le
journalisme depuis plus de 30 ans. Il a été le rédacteur-en-chef du journal de 2002 à 2005 et dirigeait
auparavant la Revue Commerce. Ce diplômé de
l’Université Laval en journalisme et sciences politiques a également animé pendant trois ans l’émission
Finances au réseau TVA et tient une chronique sur les ondes du 98,5 FM, à Montréal, en plus de collaborer
fréquemment à CHOI FM, à Québec. Il a également publié à l’automne 2008 le guide Comment parler aux médias, aux Éditions
Transcontinental.
Voyages
Avocat de formation et grand voyageur,
Pierre Lacerte est venu au journalisme en publiant dans Le Devoir ses impressions
de voyages autour du monde. Depuis le début des années 1980, il a écrit dans les trois grands quotidiens
francophones montréalais avant de se consacrer à l'écriture magazine. Après Décormag et
Allure (Québécor), il a œuvré plus de dix ans pour le magazine Affaires Plus, avant de se
joindre à l'équipe du magazine L'actualité qu'il a quitté il y a quelques années pour occuper des
fonctions de communicateur au sein d’un ordre professionnel.
Claude
Péloquin a participé à la mise en œuvre du projet de
Réseau de veille en tourisme de la chaire de tourisme Transat de l’UQAM depuis ses premières heures. Ses
champs d’expertise de veille sont principalement le réseau de distribution et la mise en marché électronique
des voyages, de même que le tourisme de plein air. Il a travaillé à la réalisation de nombreux projets de
recherche et d’études de cas reliés à l’industrie touristique. Ses principales réalisations portent sur le
tourisme en hiver, les croisières, le transport par autocar, le réseau de distribution, les parcs animaliers
et aquariums, l’écotourisme, le tourisme d’aventure, le nautisme et la relâche scolaire. Il est diplômé en
gestion du tourisme et de l’hôtellerie ainsi qu’en administration des affaires, concentration
finance.
Jean-Pierre
Rogel est journaliste à l'émission Découverte, à la
télévision de Radio-Canada, depuis 1990. De 1978 à 1986, il a été rédacteur en chef du magazine Québec
Science et y tient maintenant une chronique intitulée «Carnets du vivant».
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Arts &
Entertainment
Arts et
spectacles
Barry
Avrich is president of Endeavour, a full-service ad
agency based in Toronto. Aside his 20-plus years in the ad industry, Avrich is an award-winning filmmaker and
author of three books on marketing.
Much to his surprise, John
Griffin has held a job for more than 25 years as music and film critic at the Gazette in
Montreal.
À sa grande surprise, John
Griffin occupe un poste de critique musique et cinéma depuis 25 ans au quotidien montréalais The
Gazette.
John
Moore is host of Moore in the Morning on the
legendary NewsTalk 1010 radio in Toronto. He is also a regular columnist for the National
Post.
Best Short
Feature
Meilleur article
court
Greg
Gransden is a writer and story editor based in Montreal
and Toronto. He is currently working as a screenwriter for the air-disaster show Mayday on the
Discovery Channel, and as a researcher for a documentary series about the history of garbage. A former
journalist, he has been working in television for almost a decade. Previously, Gransden wrote and directed a
series of documentaries about Mexican pop culture for the CBC’s French-language news channel. He has lived in Russia, Austria, Mexico and Turkey, and has written for theGlobe
and Mail, United Press International and the Economist Group, among others.
Jacqueline
Hennessy is a freelance writer and broadcast journalist
in Toronto. Formerly an associate editor at Chatelaine, she is currently contributing health editor
at More magazine Canada.
Jacqueline
Hennessy est rédactrice pigiste et journaliste de
télévision à Toronto. Ancienne rédactrice-associée chez Chatelaine, Hennessy est rédactrice -
collaboratrice en santé chez More magazine Canada.
Valerie
Howes is a freelance writer based in Montreal. She has
worked as a senior editor at
Spafax and as managing editor and
head of research at Maisonneuve.
Business
Affaires
Frances
Bula is the city columnist for Vancouver
magazine, a contributor to the Globe and Mail and BCBusiness, as well as a blogger on civic
issues and a journalism instructor at Langara College. She previously worked as a reporter at the
Vancouver Sun for 20 years, mostly as a city politics and urban issues reporter.
Frances
Bula est actuellement chroniqueuse aux
affaires municipales du magazine Vancouver et elle collabore également à The Globe and Mail
et BCBusiness. Elle signe un blogue sur différentes questions d’intérêt municipal et enseigne le
journalisme au Langara College. Auparavant, elle a été reporter au Vancouver Sun pendant 20 ans,
principalement affectée aux questions urbaines et de politique municipale.
Léo
Charbonneau is deputy editor of University
Affairs magazine. He has spent more than 25 years as a writer and magazine editor.
Douglas
Goold is a senior fellow of the Canadian International
Council and has been doing research on India. He is the former editor of the Globe and Mail's
Report on Business and Report on Business Magazine, as well as a national columnist. Goold
is the author of three books, including (with Andrew Willis) the
number one bestseller The Bre-X Fraud, and has a Ph.D. in modern history from
Cambridge.
Columns
Chroniques
Alain
Dubuc is a national affairs columnist for the Montreal
daily La Presse. From 2001 to 2004, he was publisher of Le Soleil in Quebec City.
Dubuc was the recipient of the National Newspaper Award for editorial writing in 1999, and of the Public
Policy Forum Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in journalism. He is the author of five books.
Gillian
MacKay is a Toronto-based writer and editor and
a long-time contributor to Canadian Art magazine.
Steve
Proulx is a columnist for Montreal's Voir
weekly, and the former editor-in-chief of Trente magazine, a monthly covering the news
business.
Editorial
Package
Dossiers
thématiques
Robert
Goyette started out as a reporter at the Montreal
Star in the 1970s. In 1979, he joined Sélection du Reader's Digest, where he built up the local
content for Quebec readers. He moved to L'Actualité as managing editor in 1987 and oversaw the
change from a monthly to a bimonthly publication. He rejoined Sélection in 1994 and was appointed
editor-in-chief five years later. In 2000, he became vice-president of Reader's Digest Magazines Canada Ltd.
and, the following year, became chair of the Reader's Digest Foundation of Canada. In 2005, he was also
appointed vice-president responsible for English and French books in Canada. Goyette is the past chair of
Magazines Canada and sits on the executive committee and the board of directors of the association. He is
also the past chair of the Quebec Magazine Association. In
March 2009, Goyette was appointed VP of Books and editor-in-chief, Magazines, for Canada. He is also
responsible for content on Reader's Digest websites, including Readersdigest.ca, Ourcanada.ca,
Besthealthmag.ca and Selection.ca.
Andrée
Lauzon has worked for more than a decade as senior art
director for various magazines, and now specializes in children's books publishing. The walls of her office
sport numerous awards, along with the certificate she received for climbing Mount Kinabalu and her bachelor's
degree in philosophy.
Pierre
Tourangeau has been a news reporter and manager since
1977. He oversees news and current affairs production for French-language news services at
CBC/Radio-Canada.
Essays
Essais
Nicolas
Langelier is a Montreal-based freelance
writer. He is also the president of the Quebec Association of Independent Journalists (AJIQ) and a board
member of the Quebec Federation of Professional Journalists (FPJQ).
Nicolas
Langelier est journaliste indépendant. Il est président
de l'Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec et membre du conseil d'administration de la
Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec.
Gillian
MacKay is a Toronto-based writer and editor and
a long-time contributor to Canadian Art magazine.
Steve
Proulx is a columnist for Montreal's Voir
weekly, and the former editor-in-chief of Trente magazine, a monthly covering the news
business.
Health &
Medicine
Santé et
médecine
Amy-Willard
Cross has written, edited and commissioned hundreds of
service and lifestyle articles. At Chatelaine she served as the health and services editor, and for
Saturday Night she wrote a column on events. She started her career by developing the first magazine
for women in mid-life. Recently, she started Womenmakenews.com, an online op-ed page.
Kathryn
O'Hara holds the CTV chair in science broadcast
journalism in Carleton's School of Journalism and Communication, where she is an associate professor. She is
also the president of the Canadian Science Writers Association and serves on several advisory boards on
health science, public engagement and research integrity.
André
Picard is the public health reporter at the Globe
and Mail.
André
Picard est journaliste en santé publique
au quotidien the Globe and Mail.
How-To
Conseils
pratiques
Lisa
Fitterman started in newspapers but has since branched
out to write books and for magazines. Her work has appeared in a host of publications, including Reader’s
Digest, More, Chatelaine, International Architecture &
Design, Best Health and The Walrus.
Donna
Nebenzahl is a Montreal-based newspaper editor and
writer for Canadian newspapers and Canadian and U.S. magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens.
She is author of the book Womankind: Faces of Change Around the World, featuring 40 activist women
from 33 countries. In addition to writing about the workplace for the Toronto Star and on homes and
gardens for the Gazette and other Canwest newspapers, she teaches journalism at Concordia
University. Nebenzahl conceived, researched and wrote the documentary film Twice upon a Garden,
which has been shown at the International Festival of Films on Art and is nominated for the Golden Sheaf
Award; she is currently working on a documentary based on the Womankind project.
Carolyn
Warren is regional manager of Cultural Programming and
New Integrated Content, Radio, TV and web, for CBC in Montreal. She has worked in both radio and television
since 1989, producing award-winning current affairs and cultural magazine programs as well as features and
documentaries. She is also involved in radio and television program development for CBC and has been, since
2004, manager of “Wire Tap,” distributed in the U.S. by PRI. Warren also manages the CBC Literary Awards and
Canada Writes.
One of a
Kind
Article hors
catégories
Bill
Brownstein has been a columnist at
the Gazette since 1987, commenting on city and cultural life in Montreal. He can also be
regularly heard on CJAD radio and regularly seen on CTV-Montreal. Brownstein has made two documentary films,
Bill Lee: A Profile of a Pitcher, about former Montreal Expos pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee, and
Skating on Thin Ice, about the nomadic life of two journeymen hockey players in the NHL. Brownstein
is the author of Sex Carnival, a whimsical peek into the wide world of sex, and Down the
Tube, a frightening account of the week he was forced to spend in TV hell. He is also co-author and
co-editor of The Great Canadian Character Anthology. Brownstein wrote the
bestseller Schwartz’s Hebrew Delicatessen: The Story, a witty probe into the legendary Montreal
deli. His latest book, Montreal 24: Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a City, is an around-the-clock
odyssey through the city that never sleeps.
Frances
Bula is the city columnist
for Vancouver magazine, a contributor to the Globe and
Mail and BCBusiness, as well as a blogger on civic issues and a journalism instructor
at Langara College. She previously worked as a reporter at the Vancouver Sun for 20 years,
mostly as a city politics and urban issues reporter.
Frances
Bula est actuellement chroniqueuse aux affaires
municipales du magazine Vancouver et elle collabore également à The
Globe and Mail et BCBusiness. Elle signe un blogue sur différentes questions
d’intérêt municipal et enseigne le journalisme au Langara College. Auparavant, elle a été reporter
au Vancouver Sun pendant 20 ans, principalement affectée aux questions urbaines et de
politique municipale.
Karen
Schwinghamer manages media relations and communications
services for the Senate of Canada. She anticipates an interesting year—even more interesting than when
she was consulting for government clients, or working at the CBC or in the independent film
industry.
Personal
Journalism
Journalisme
personnel
Margaret
Craig-Bourdin is editor of the online edition of
CAmagazine and a certified member of the Association of Translators and Interpreters of
Ontario.
Adam Leith
Gollner's debut book of narrative non-fiction,
The Fruit Hunters(Doubleday), was a national bestseller,
a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and winner of the McAuslan First Book
Award.
Valerie
Howes is a freelance writer based in Montreal.
She has worked as a senior editor at Spafax and as managing editor and head of research
at Maisonneuve.
Politics &
Public Interest
Politique et
affaires publiques
Alain
Dubuc is a national affairs columnist for the Montreal
daily La Presse. From 2001 to 2004, he was publisher of Le Soleil in Quebec
City.
Karen
Schwinghamer manages media relations and
communications services for the Senate of Canada. She anticipates an interesting year—even more
interesting than when she was consulting for government clients, or working at the CBC or in the independent
film industry.
After a long career in radio and
television broadcasting at the CBC and in print at the Gazette and the Montreal Star,
Dennis Trudeau is now a freelance magazine writer and communications consultant in Montreal.
He is also vice-president of Reporters Without Borders Canada.
Après une longue
carrière en radio et en télévision à la CBC et aux quotidiens The Gazette et The Montreal
Star, Dennis Trudeau mène actuellement une carrière de rédacteur magazine pigiste et de
consultant en communications à Montréal. Il est vice-président de Reporters sans frontières
Canada.
Profiles
Portraits
Bill
Brownstein has been a columnist at
the Gazette since 1987, commenting on city and cultural life in Montreal. He can also
be regularly heard on CJAD radio and regularly seen on CTV-Montreal. Brownstein has made two documentary
films, Bill Lee: A Profile of a Pitcher, about former Montreal Expos pitcher Bill "Spaceman"
Lee, and Skating on Thin Ice, about the nomadic life of two journeymen hockey players in the
NHL. Brownstein is the author of Sex Carnival, a whimsical peek into the wide world of sex,
and Down the Tube, a frightening account of the week he was forced to spend in TV hell. He is
also co-author and co-editor of The Great Canadian Character Anthology. Brownstein wrote the
bestseller Schwartz’s Hebrew Delicatessen: The Story, a witty probe into the legendary Montreal
deli. His latest book, Montreal 24: Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a City, is an
around-the-clock odyssey through the city that never sleeps.
Journaliste et auteur,
Mathieu-Robert Sauvé est président de l’Association des communicateurs scientifiques du
Québec. Il a signé des textes dans une quinzaine de publications, dont L’actualité, La Presse,
Le Devoir, Découvrir et Québec science. Il a remporté plusieurs prix pour ses articles et ses
livres.
Julie
Sergent holds a master’s degree in literary studies. She
was a columnist and a critic for many years in various newspapers and magazines. She now shares her time
between the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she is in charge of editing information documents, and a
house that looks more like a zoo in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area in Montreal.
Née à Montréal,
Julie Sergent détient une maîtrise en études littéraires. Elle a signé des chroniques et des
recensions critiques pendant de nombreuses années dans divers journaux et magazines. Elle partage désormais
son temps entre l’UQAM, où elle est responsable de la rédaction de multiples documents d’information, et une
maison à l’allure de zoo dans Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Science,
Technology & Environment
Science,
technologie et environnement
Patrick
Beaudin est directeur général de la Société pour la
promotion de la science et de la technologie, membre de la Commission de l’éthique de la science et de la
technologie du Québec et
collabore aussi à l’élaboration des
programmes du Centre des sciences de Montréal, de l’Association des communicateurs scientifiques et du groupe
communautaire Lire et faire lire.
Veronique Morin is a science journalist with
more than 20 years' experience. She was president of the Canadian Science Writers' Association
(CSWA) from 2001 to 2005, and was the first president of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ)
from 2002 to 2004.
Sarah
Scott, a former Montreal Gazette reporter, has
won two silver medals and seven honourable mentions for her magazine articles on a wide variety of topics.
She is now working with two scientists on a book about global health called Lab to
Village.
Service: Health
& Family
Service : Santé et
famille
Veronique Morin is a science journalist with
more than 20 years' experience. She was president of the Canadian Science Writers' Association
(CSWA) from 2001 to 2005, and was the first president of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ)
from 2002 to 2004.
Journaliste indépendante depuis 19
ans, Anne-Marie Simard a collaboré à presque tous les magazines québécois et travaillé sur
plusieurs séries documentaires produites par la compagnie Pixcom Productions, Inc. Elle a été rédactrice en
chef du magazine ELLE Québec et des émissions de télévision La Revanche des Nerdz (Ztélé)
et Le Code Chastenay (Télé-Québec).
Libby
Znaimer is a prominent Canadian journalist specializing
in business, politics and lifestyle issues. Znaimer also writes a regular column for Zoomer
magazine. She has contributed to numerous publications, including Reader’s Digest, More
magazine, the Globe and Mail and the National Post, for which she wrote a popular
series on breast cancer called “The Lump.” Her first book, In Cancerland—Living Well Is the Best
Revenge, was published by Key Porter in October 2007.
Service:
Lifestyle
Service : Mode de
vie
Valérie
Dufour est journaliste professionnelle depuis 1999. Au
cours de sa carrière, elle a travaillé pour les quotidiens québécois La Presse, La Voix de
l'Est, Le Devoir et Le Journal de Montréal. Depuis janvier 2009, elle œuvre comme
reporter et chroniqueuse sur RueFrontenac.com, le site Internet des employés en lock-out du
Journal de Montréal. Elle est également la coauteure du livre Circus Quebecus, un
essai paru en 2008 chez Boréal sur les coulisses de la Commission Bouchard-Taylor portant sur les
accommodements raisonnables.
Author of Blown Away: American
Women and Guns (Pocket Books 2004), Caitlin Kelly is a former reporter for
the Globe and Mail, Gazette and New York Daily News.
Jean Thérèse
Riley is a former chair of the National Arts Centre of
Canada. She has worked with local, provincial and national arts organizations. Riley runs a consulting firm
focused on bridging the cultural and communications divide between French and English Canada. For several
years she presented a weekly book review on French Language TVO.
Service: Personal
Finance & Business
Service : Finances
et économie
Matthew
Elder is a writer and communications consultant based in
Toronto. Previously, he was vice-president, content, of Morningstar Canada; a columnist and editor with the
Financial Post; and personal-finance writer with theGazette in Montreal.
Douglas
Goold is a senior fellow of the Canadian
International Council and has been doing research on India. He is the former editor
of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business and Report on
Business Magazine, as well as a national columnist. Goold is the author of three books,
including (with Andrew Willis) the number one bestseller The Bre-X Fraud, and has a Ph.D.
in modern history from Cambridge.
Diplômé en physique à l’Université
Laval, journaliste depuis plus de 30 ans ex-directeur et rédacteur en chef de la Revue Commerce,
recherchiste et scénariste de la série documentaire Steinberg qui lui a valu trois prix Gémeaux en 1996,
Pierre Sormany est présentement rédacteur de Découverte, La Semaine verte
et L’Épicerie. Il enseigne le journalisme à l’Université de Montréal depuis 1979 et a écrit le
premier manuel de base en journalisme au Québec, Le métier de journaliste. Outre ses travaux journalistiques,
il a mené plusieurs études de prospective sur les biotechnologies, sur l’éthique biomédicale, sur les
énergies nouvelles et sur l’informatisation de la société. Celui qui est aussi auteur de science-fiction a
collaboré aux travaux de conception du Centre des sciences de Montréal et à l’élaboration de plusieurs cours
donnés à la Télé-Université de l’Université du Québec. Pierre Sormany a remporté une douzaine de prix
canadiens de journalisme scientifique ou médical. Il a reçu le prix Jules-Fournier en 1987 et la bourse
Michener-Deacon en 1995.
Society
Société
Janet
Bagnall is an editorial writer and columnist with
the Gazette in Montreal. A two-time National Newspaper Award nominee, she was a 2008 Montreal Y
Woman of Distinction.
Marcel
Côté is founding partner of Secor, Canada's largest
management consulting firm. An economist by training, he is a former chair of the Public Policy Forum and has
been active in political circles in Ottawa and Quebec.
Philippe
Mercure holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in
engineering physics from École Polytechnique de Montréal. He has worked as a full-time journalist since 2005.
Mercure won the Fernand Seguin Award in scientific journalism and the Caisse de depot et placement du Québec
/ Merrill Lynch Economic and Financial Journalism Awards of Excellence.
Sports &
Recreation
Sports et
loisirs
Jean-François
Bégin is a sports columnist at La
Presse in Montreal.
Jean-François
Bégin est chroniqueur sportif à La
Presse.
After her studies in communications,
Caroline Trudeau worked for a weekly magazine a few months before deciding to perfect her
skills by doing a master’s degree in Magazine, Newspapers and Online Journalism at Syracuse University, N.Y.
Graduating as one of the best of her class, she was rapidly hired in July 2009 at Cool!
magazine.
David
Yates worked for the Montreal Gazette for 25
years, retiring as business editor in 2003. Since then he has taught at Concordia University and freelanced
for the Gazette sports section.
Travel
Voyages
John
Allemang is a feature writer at the Globe and
Mail, and a former National Magazine Awards winner.
Sam Blyth is chair of Blyth Academy and Blyth Educational Travel. He also chairs the
Cambridge Canadian Scholarship Foundation and the Bhutan Canada Foundation.
Melora
Koepke is a Montreal-based writer who specializes in
travel, culture, society, food and arts writing. She won a National Magazine Award medal in 2005 for her
article “Corpus Delicti: Media, Morality, and Vancouver’s Missing Women,” featured in
Maisonneuve.
Melora
Koepke est rédactrice montréalaise
spécialisée dans le secteur du voyage, de la culture, de la société, de l’alimentation et des arts. Elle a remporté une médaille d’or aux Prix du magazine canadien en 2005
pour son article « Corpus Delicti: Media, Morality, and Vancouver’s Missing Women » paru dans le
magazine Maisonneuve.
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PANEL
JURY DES CATÉGORIES
WEB
Rick
Campbell is the editorial director of the Rogers
Healthcare Group and its respective English and French portals canadianHealthcareNetwork.ca and
ProfessionSante.ca.
Jennifer
Gruden is the web editor for More.ca. She began her web
career at 50Plus.com in 1999.
Anjali
Kapoor is the managing editor, digital at the Globe
and Mail, where she oversees the editorial digital strategy for the Globe and Mail
sites.
Over the past 10 years, Dan
Seaman has been involved in almost every aspect of the online publishing industry.
A former editor at VICE
magazine, Sarah Steinberg is the web editor at enRoute magazine in Montreal. Her
first collection of short stories, We Could Be Like that Couple..., was published with Insomniac
Press in 2008.
Kat
Tancock is senior web editor at Reader's Digest
and teaches in the Magazine Publishing program at Ryerson University. Read her blog at
magazinesonline.wordpress.com.
Alexander
Younger is the president and founder of Toronto-based
Design Lab Inc., an 18-year-old full-service marketing and advertising agency that built its first commercial
website in 1994. Active in both the interactive and traditional marketing worlds, Younger has been featured
in the National Post and Globe and Mail, and on Canada AM.
