THE
GALLEY
The Media Club of
Ottawa
"Penning the Future"
March, 2009
Next Event
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Panel Discussion
Media in the New World
Where are
we heading?
How to maintain stability, relevance and relationships
Moderator: Gil Klein
Location - O'Connor Room at the Sheraton Hotel, 150 Albert Street $25. (members $20).
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History of the Margaret Graham Awards
The student awards presented each year by the Media Club of Ottawa
honour the memory of Margaret "Miggsy" Graham, a pioneer woman
journalist who played a leading role in the formation of the Canadian
Women’s Press Club (CWPC). While working for the Montreal Star,
she persuaded Col. George Ham, publicist for the Canadian Pacific
Railway, to give female journalist the same free trip to the St. Louis
Exposition he offered male journalists. The trip was such a success
that on the way home the women decided to form the CWPC.
Miggsy married Albert Horton, a well-known editor of Hansard in 1905
and they lived in Ottawa until her death in 1924. The Margaret Graham
Awards were originally funded by their daughter, Mrs. Lois Grant.
The first award was presented in 1976 for the best feature story
written by a male or female reporter with less than three years
experience, who was employed by an Ottawa-area daily or weekly
newspaper. That year a framed certificate and $150 went to Linda
Florence for a story she wrote for the Kingston News. The MGA was
formally established in 1977. Initially the club gave $100 each to a
Carleton University student and a student from Algonquin College. In
1992 the amount was increased to $300 for each winner and broadened to
include an Ottawa University student. In 2008 the amount given to each
student was raised to $500. The awards recognize both academic success
and overall excellence and the students are selected by the schools. Carleton University recipients.
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Gil Klein
Director of the Centennial project at the U.S. National Press
Club.
Moderator at the Panel Discussion
Media in the New World
on March 24
(Reprinted from blog.press.org)
Biography
Gil
Klein, the director of the Centennial project at the U.S. National Press
Club.
Since arriving in Washington for Media General in 1985, he has
covered the White House, Supreme Court, Congress, political conventions
and presidential campaigns. He was a general assignment reporter
specializing in Southeastern issues before establishing a national
education beat.
He got his start in journalism in 1974, writing for the Tampa
Tribune about small Florida towns such as Frostproof, Eagle Lake and
Fort Meade. He left Florida in 1975 to report on police and courts for
the Gwinnett (Ga.) Daily News but returned to the Tribune a year later
as the environment, energy and transportation reporter.
His assignments have taken him to Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Puerto
Rico and Mexico, as well as all over the southeastern United States. He
covered the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant disaster, the Mariel
Boatlift, the 1990 Washington summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and
George H.W. Bush, and President Clinton’s impeachment.
In 2005 he coordinated a multi-media project on the 40th
anniversary of the Selma March and passage of the Voting Rights Act
that won Media General’s first D. Tennant Bryan Award for
multi-media journalism. He was president of the National Press Club in
1994.
Membership in the National Press Club of Canada
Since September 2008, the National Press Club of Canada Foundation offers Media Club of Ottawa members over 60 a reduced membership rate of $50 a year
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