User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/List of Canadian journalists

Awards for journalists in Canada, The Michener Award for "journalists and organizations whose work is done in an unbiased manner in public service"; the National Media Awards Foundation's National Magazine Awards—"A set of 25 awards recognizing excellence in Canadian magazine publishing each year", National Newspaper Awards—"A set of 21 awards recognizing the best work in Canadian newspapers", The Canadian Journalism Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award for an award for a Canadian journalist who has made significant contributions to Canadian journalism, The JHR/Canadian Association of Journalists Award for Human Rights Reporting for a "Canadian journalist whose work brings awareness to human rights issues and has an international scope", Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award, a "non-monetary award for an individual, group or organization that has contributed to the promotion and support of transparency, accountability and the public’s right to access information held by public institutions.", The Data Journalism Awards—"A set of awards recognizing data journalism by individuals, media companies and non-profit groups", and the Canadian Hillman Prize—"An award honouring investigative reporting that causes change on the issue(s) being reported". The Sidney Hillman Foundation's Canadian Hillman Prize inaugurated in 2011, is similar to the Sidney Hillman Foundation's award for "investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good". It is offered to a Canadian journalist "whose work makes a difference to the lives of Canadians".

This is a dynamic list of Canadian journalists whose articles may have insufficient references. I began the list to help understand the dilemma of proving notability in regards to journalists. An excellent example is Glenn Fleishman who has failed the notability test yet publishes for major journals and news outlets, including The Economist and is cited in dozens of other Wikipedia articles. There is also a double standard as there are countless articles with few, if any, references that have not been deleted. Journalist by trade, often do not want stories to be about themselves. They are also competitive so many report less on each other's work? Their bylines, even in major outlets, are considered to be self-authored, so therefore not a reliable source? Their awards are not accepted as contributing to their notability status unless an article has been published about the award? Their own work, published an cited is not enough to make them notable? I am not saying the notability criteria is faulty in itself. I am trying to fully understand the parameters.

Suggestions: Emily Maitlis, Shane Smith, Morley Safer, Catherine Herridge This is a list of top journalists who are mentoring younger journalists according to this Prision list includes Adrian Harewood, co-anchor of CBC News Ottawa at 6, Andree Lau, managing editor of digital news for CBC, Arif Noorani, executive producer and co-founder of CBC Podcasts, Brigitte Noël, investigative reporter with Radio-Canada's flagship investigative series Enquête, David Thurton, national reporter in CBC's parliamentary bureau, Emma Gilchrist, editor-in-chief of The Narwhal, Frances Bula, urban affairs contributor at the Globe and Mail and UBC adjunct professor, Francine Compton, executive producer of APTN National News, Jesse Winter, freelance visual journalist and 2020 Charles Bury Award winner, Karyn Pugliese, journalism professor at Ryerson University and past CAJ president, Lisa LaFlamme, Chief News Anchor of CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme, Mike De Souza, investigative journalist at Global News, Nick Taylor-Vaisey, associate editor at Maclean's magazine and past CAJ president, Omayra Issa, bilingual journalist and news presenter for CBC/Radio-Canada, Paul Wells, senior writer at Maclean's magazine, and Shireen Ahmed, freelance sports journalist.


 * Andrew McMillen author of "How I Snuck Through Wikipedia’s Notability Test – a journalist's story". McMillen who admitted that he "abhored the notion of writing for free", purposefully set out to collaborated with a seasoned Wikipedia editor, User:JHunterJ to follow the process of the creation of an article that about someone who is not notable, in this case, himself.

""As a frequent Wikipedia reader, I had long wondered about the people who studiously edit its content, writing paragraphs, creating links, sourcing citations and tweaking code behind the scenes to keep it running smoothly. As a professional writer, I’ve been particularly intrigued by the unpaid nature of this work, as I abhor the notion of writing for free.""

- Andrew McMillen in the Medium. March 6, 2015

Johnson, explained on the article's talk page in 2006, that McMillen was on the border between notable and not notable which is why he undertook the experiment.

There is an informative discussion on the talk page of J. Hunter Johnson about double standards in regards to Wikipedia biographies.

Johnson created the fake article on Andrew McMillen and uploaded it. He told McMillen that, "The Wikipedia article about you is up, with no raised eyebrows, so you might not get to see the deletion discussion process up close."

These journalists are listed as contributors to The Walrus in the magazine's Wikipedia article: J. B. MacKinnon, Marianne Ackerman, Michael Adams, Kamal Al-Solaylee, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Boyden, Dionne Brand, Joan Bryden, Edward Burtynsky, Deborah Campbell, Leonard Cohen, Douglas Coupland, Wendy Dennis, Charles Foran, Rachel Giese, Don Gillmor, Adam Gopnik, Ron Graham, Allan Gregg, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, Susan Harada, Helen Humphreys, Pico Iyer, Marni Jackson, Wayne Johnston, Mark Kingwell, Bruce Livesey (journalist), Eamon Mac Mahon, J.B. MacKinnon, Pasha Malla, Roger Martin, Bruce Mau, Bruce McCall, Marci McDonald, Lisa Moore, Hal Niedzviecki, Graham Roumieu, Seth,  Lana Šlezić,  Adam Sternbergh,  Moez Surani,  Jillian Tamaki, Timothy Taylor, Miriam Toews, Larry Towell, Chris Turner, John Vaillant, Andrew Westoll, Michael Winter, Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, Katie Simpson, and Kelly Crowe.

Compared to:


 * Marianne Ackerman
 * Kamal Al-Solaylee
 * Joseph Boyden