First, CTV backtracked on an earlier decision (or was all this mere strategy?) to close A-Channel’s Windsor station, saying it would apply to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for permission to convert Wingham’s A-Channel station to a rebroadcaster for its London station. As for CTV’s Brandon, Man., outlet, the network will continue to seek a buyer.

Second, congrats are in order for magazine-stream students and faculty at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism, where the Ryerson Review of Journalism has won six awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC). See the details from J-Source.ca here. The awards are testament to the strong leadership and teaching of Ryerson faculty members (and former colleagues) such as Bill Reynolds, Lynn Cunningham and Tim Falconer.

To brighten the day, I took in a short performance at London’s Covent Garden Market during the noon hour by the cast of Stomp.

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Ivor Shapiro

Saying that it’s time to move on to other projects while ensuring that J-Source.ca continues “breathing fresh air,” the journalism website’s editor-in-chief, Ivor Shapiro, announced his resignation this week, effective in December.

Shapiro, an associate professor at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism, was a driving force in the creation of the Canadian Journalism Project and its websites, J-Source.ca (English) and ProjetJ.ca (French), three years ago. The list of individual and institutional collaborators has grown steadily over that time.

Shapiro’s explanatory note can be found here, while the job description for the post he’s leaving can be downloaded from the same page. A search committee, chaired by David Milliken of CNW Group, has been created to seek Shapiro’s replacement.