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December 29, 2023 7:59 pm  #1


Canadian media people that passed in 2023

Broadcast Dialogue published there list of Canadian Media people that passed away this past year. As always some difference makers in the field were lost.

Here is the link...


 https://broadcastdialogue.com/broadcasters-we-lost-in-2023/


The world would be so good if it weren't for some people...
 

December 30, 2023 8:58 am  #2


Re: Canadian media people that passed in 2023

Thanks for sharing Muffaraw Joe, some of them passed in their early 60’s, too young still!

 

December 30, 2023 3:52 pm  #3


Re: Canadian media people that passed in 2023

A list that's always sad to read.

Ori Siegel was around the Ontario DX Association crowd back in the 90s and such. I knew he worked at CBC, but didn't know his other radio ventures.

Tim Knight was one of the brightest lights I've known in journalism. He was all-over helpful when we were organizing the 1998 conference of the Canadian Association of Journalists. He secured our keynote speaker, Sylvia Vollenhoven, who was a pivotal force in South African journalism when Apartheid was coming to an end. And he was an educator par excellence - an utterly unforgettable opponent of the inverted pyramid style of newswriting, which he correctly pointed out removes any incentive to keep reading after revealing too much up-front.

Sylvia Vollenhoven wrote a particularly touching piece:
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/tim-knight-in-memoriam/

By Tim, worth reading: https://www.thejournalist.org.za/the-craft/screw-the-inverted-pyramid/