Founded by the Toronto Press Club (now known as the Toronto Press and Media Club) in 1965, the Canadian News Hall of Fame honours more than 100 men and women who have made significant contributions to journalism in Canada.
Nominations for induction into the Hall of Fame can be submitted to the Press and Media Club at any time. The list of nominations is distributed to a group of Selectors across Canada, who then vote on the individuals and make their recommendations to the committee chairman. The Selectors are drawn from the ranks of senior Canadian journalists who are well qualified to judge their peers. Most are Members of the Hall of Fame.
Induction of new Members takes place annually at a banquet in downtown Toronto, where the honourees receive an engraved personal plaque. Their names are also added individually to the Hall of Fame plaques.
The Hall of Fame is operated under the auspices of the Toronto Press Club and was previously housed within the Ontario Club at 30 Wellington St. W. in Toronto.[1] An important person who chose honourees was Gordon Donaldson (before his 2001 death), and his choices received some media attention.[2]
Selected Canadian News Hall of Fame inductees
edit- Arthur Ford (1966)
- Gérard Filion (1966)
- John W. Dafoe (1966)
- Claude Ryan (1968)
- Gillis Purcell (1970)
- Charles B. Edwards (1972)[3]
- Stu Keate (1974)
- Jim Coleman (1980)[4]
- Charles Lynch (1981)
- Pierre Berton (1983)
- Betty Kennedy (1983)
- June Callwood (1984)[5]
- Terry Mosher (1985)
- Richard Doyle (1990)
- Clyde Gilmour (1990)
- Austin Carroll (1991)
- Peter Gzowski (1991)
- William Lyon Mackenzie (1991)
- Peter C. Newman (1992)
- Robert La Palme (1995)
- Joe Schlesinger (1995)
- Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas (1995)
- Conrad Black (1999)[2]
- Allan Fotheringham (1999)[2]
- Douglas Mason Fisher (2000)
- Tara Singh Hayer (2000)[6]
- Lloyd Robertson (2012)[7]
- Christie Blatchford (2019)[8]
- J.D. MacFarlane
- Robert Holiday (2018)
See also
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edit- ^ The club is now seeking a new home for the News Hall of Fame. The Ontario Club Archived 2012-09-05 at archive.today
- ^ a b c Natalie Armstrong, "Black, Fotheringham join News Hall of Fame," The Ottawa Citizen, May 11, 1999, pg. A.6.
- ^ "Press Names Honoured". Winnipeg Free Press. Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Canadian Press. April 10, 1972. p. 62.
; "Charlie Edwards (left), former head of Broadcast News, the radio service of Canadian Press, waves the certificate naming him to the Newspaper Hall of (...)". Toronto Star. April 9, 1972. Retrieved May 20, 2022 – via Toronto Public Library.
- ^ "Jim Coleman". Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. 1985. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
- ^ "Activist Callwood dies at 82." The Toronto Star, April 14, 2007. https://www.thestar.com/news/2007/04/14/activist_callwood_dies_at_82.html. Accessed October 9, 2007.
- ^ "Inducted into hall of fame," National Post, January 6, 2001, pg. B.6.
- ^ "Canadian News Hall of Fame to Induct Broadcast Deans". Canada Newswire. 28 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ^ Braun, Liz (February 12, 2020). "Iconic Canadian journalist Christie Blatchford dies at age 68". Toronto Sun. Retrieved February 12, 2020.