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Mary Ormsby (born 1960) is a Canadian journalist and sports editor for the Toronto Star . [1] [2] She appears on the sports talk radio show Prime Time Sports approximately once a month as heard on the Sportsnet 590 The Fan.
She was born in Toronto, Ontario, where she attended St. Richards Catholic Elementary School and Senator O'Connor High School.[ citation needed ] After completing grade 12, she received a full scholarship to Ohio State University as a member of the Women's volleyball team. [3] She was a two-time OSU Scholar-Athlete; team captain in 1979 and 1980; an all-Big Ten selection in 1980; and won three OAISW titles and the 1979 MAIAW regional championship, which was part of a school-record-setting 37-win season. [4] She graduated with a degree in journalism and returned to her native Toronto in the early 1980s to begin a career in sports journalism with the Toronto Sun. [3]
She was subsequently hired by the Toronto Star, Canada's most widely circulated newspaper. [5] Mary then married Paul Hunter and had four children.
In 1987, she wrote an article for the Toronto Star, entitled "It's Time for Boorish Footballers to Grow Up", exposing the sexual harassment she experienced while interviewing players in Canadian Football League locker rooms. [1] [2]
In 1995, she was inducted to the new Ohio State University Sports Hall of Fame. [4] She continues to work as an assistant sports editor at the Toronto Star, as well as a columnist at that same paper.
Christie Marie Blatchford was a Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster. She published four non-fiction books.
The Canadian Jewish News is a non-profit, national, English-language digital-first media organization that serves Canada's Jewish community. A national edition of the newspaper was published for 60 years in Toronto. A weekly Montreal edition in English with some French began its run in 1976. The newspaper announced its closure in 2013 but was able to continue after restructuring and reorganizing. It again announced its closure on April 2, 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada on its finances. Its final weekly print edition was published on April 9, 2020. In December 2020, it announced its return as a digital-first media company with a new president, Bryan Borzykowski.
Antonia Zerbisias is a Canadian journalist associated with the Toronto Star from 1989 until she took early retirement from the paper on 31 October 2014. She has been a reporter and TV host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as the Montreal correspondent for the trade paper, Variety.
Tony Burman is a Canadian broadcaster, journalist and university official. Starting in the 1960s, Burman has worked as a journalist, in print, radio, television, and online. For most of this time, he was at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Later he joined Al Jazeera English. He is also active in supporting public broadcasting and investigative journalism.
Edward Greenspon is a Canadian journalist who joined Bloomberg News in January 2014 as Editor-at-Large for Canada after four years as vice president of strategic investments for Star Media Group, a division of Torstar Corp. and publisher of the Toronto Star. Before that, he was the editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for seven years. In 2002, he assumed the position at a turning point in the paper's history, and, during his tenure, he instituted several sectional revamps, launched new web sites and maintained circulation levels. On May 25, 2009, he was replaced by John Stackhouse.
The Review of Journalism is a Canadian magazine, published annually by final-year journalism students at Toronto Metropolitan University. The magazine profiles personalities, issues and controversies in Canadian media. In addition to the features in the printed magazine, weekly online features and a daily blog are maintained by the staff of the Review. The magazine's mandate has, from the very beginning, asked What does this mean for Canadian journalism now?
Isobel Warren is a Canadian author and journalist. Her journalism background is in newspapers and magazines, radio and television. She was founder of "Hands Magazine", at that time Canada's only national craft publication, and served as its editor throughout the 1980s. Assignments have included: Editor, CARP News; Producer, The Senior Report (TVO); Producer, On Top of the World She writes regularly for a variety of publications in Canada and the U.S., including the Toronto Star, Good Times, Forever Young and TravelScoop, and has appeared in the Medical Post, National Post, The Globe and Mail, Halifax Herald, The Plain Dealer, the Cloverdale Reporter and the Rotarian, as well as in-flights, Atmosphere and Airborn.
George Charles Stewart Bain was a Canadian journalist, and the first to be named a national affairs correspondent at any Canadian newspaper. Bain was described by Allan Fotheringham as being "the wittiest columnist ever to grace Ottawa," and Doug Fisher said that Bain was "the closest to the perfect columnist" and the columnist he tried to emulate.
On The Record is the masthead news title produced by journalism students at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. Students produce daily news for the publication's website, live-blog local events relevant to students and broadcast TV news, also available on the website, at least once a week.
Black Star, also known as Black Star Publishing Company, was started by refugees from Germany who had established photographic agencies there in the 1930s. Today it is a New York City-based photographic agency with offices in London and in White Plains, New York. It is known for photojournalism, corporate assignment photography and stock photography services worldwide. It is noted for its contribution to the history of photojournalism in the United States. It was the first privately owned picture agency in the United States, and introduced numerous new techniques in photography and illustrated journalism. The agency was closely identified with Henry Luce's magazines Life and Time.
Diane Jones-Konihowski, is a former Canadian pentathlete who was the 1978 Commonwealth Champion and won two gold medals at two Pan-American Games, as well as representing Canada at two Summer Olympics.
Ken Adachi was a Canadian writer and literary critic, who was associated with the Toronto Star's literary section from 1976 until his death.
Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University, is a public research university located in Toronto, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, although it also operates facilities elsewhere in Toronto. The university includes seven academic divisions/faculties: the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Community Services, the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, the Faculty of Science, the Creative School, the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, and the Ted Rogers School of Management. Many of these are further organized into smaller departments and schools. The university also provides continuing education services through the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education.
Alison Ruth Gordon was a Canadian journalist and mystery novelist. She wrote for CBC and the Toronto Star in addition to a series of mystery novels.
Gerald Hannon was a Canadian journalist whose work appeared in major Canadian magazines and newspapers.
The Toronto Clarion was an alternative newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1976 to 1985. It was published initially by Western Gap Communications Cooperative Ltd. and later by Toronto Clarion Publishing Ltd. The Clarion was a tabloid sized biweekly newspaper until 1980, when it changed to monthly publication.
James Alan Proudfoot was a Canadian sports journalist. He spent his entire 49-year career with the Toronto Star, and served as the newspaper's sports editor. His columns regularly covered ice hockey, horse racing, figure skating and Canadian football. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and the Skate Canada Hall of Fame, and received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Eternity Martis is a Canadian journalist and author from Toronto, Ontario. Her debut publication They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing up won the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for non-fiction.
Marty York is a Canadian former sports journalist with The Globe and Mail, TSN, Sportsnet, and Metro newspapers across Canada. He is currently the Director of Communications for B'nai Brith Canada.
Kasia Mychajlowycz is a journalist and podcaster who hosted Canadaland's Cool Mules 2020 podcast.
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