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& ../westweb/ Remembers ...NEWS .. WebArchives Weather .. ...CLASSIFIEDS .. Births & Deaths Real Estate Employment Merchandise Services Miscellaneous .. ..GAZETTE INFO .. Gazette Style Guide Customer Service Advertising Rates Gazette Out-Of-Town E-mail Directory Gazette FAQ Library Info list of today's Gazette headlines   Get Daily Headlines via E-mail Click here to see a sample Your E-mail address: Subscribe Unsubscribe	PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LETTER WAS SENT VIA THE GAZETTE WEB SITE E-MAIL AND BOUNCED BACK AS 'UNDELIVERABLE'. I REST MY CASE. -----Original Message----- From: NICHOLSON Diana Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 3:22 PM To: 'letters@thegazette.southam.ca' Subject: Unhappy Gazette Subscribers We have subscribed to the Gazette for more than 30 years. With the introduction of the Gazette on-line services, I was finally able to follow stories from my office, frequently printing them out when they related to the industry in which I work. As we have a wide circle of friends around the world and two adult children living far from Montreal, the on-line Gazette became a great way of keeping them in touch with events that were not covered in their local media. We especially valued the editorial and op-ed pieces. The new cancom Web site is, as far as we are concerned, a most unpleasant change. It is homogeneous and does not expose its readers to the variety of thought and opinion that we are used to. The manner in which it was (not) introduced was abrupt and without any preparation. A further disagreeable ramification is that we operate an extensive, private, not-for-profit public affairs Web site where we previously often featured links to news and opinion pieces from the Gazette. All of those links are now dead - an annoyance for us, our readers and a number of the individuals whose work we featured. Identifying and removing those links is a lengthy and frustrating process. All in all, the new improved version of the Gazette Web site is anything but. Thank heavens for the superb site of the New York Times! Diana Nicholson Communications Consultant Westmount, QC E-mail: nicholsond@iata.org Fri 5/4/01 6:59 AM Gazette's Aubin honoured By: The Gazette; Gazette editorial writer Henry Aubin last night won his third National Newspaper Award, the most prestigious honour in Canadian journalism. Aubin: Third National Newspaper Award Gazette editorial writer Henry Aubin last night won his third National Newspaper Award, the most prestigious honour in Canadian journalism. Aubin won in the Best Editorial Writing category. He was honoured for a series of editorials he wrote making the case against forced municipal mergers. "This is a tremendous tribute to (Aubin's) hard work," said Peter Hadekel, the Gazette's editorial page editor. "Henry was way out in front of everyone else on the merger issue," Hadekel said. In 1973 and 1976, Aubin won National Newspaper Awards in the Enterprise Reporting category. The Gazette had three finalists at yesterday's award ceremony, which was held in Toronto JAY BRYAN Business writer Jay Bryan was nominated for a story on a proposal to heavily subsidize an electronic microchip-producing plant in Montreal. Graphic designer Justin Stahlman, who shared a Special Project award last year for his work on the nine-part New Anglo series that ran in 1999, also was nominated. Aubin writes editorials and op-ed analyses on a wide range of community affairs. "Henry's editorials against one-island, one-city were thoroughly researched and persuasively argued," said Michael Goldbloom, publisher and president of The Gazette. "This is a critical issue for our readers and he analyzed it with intelligence and conviction," Goldbloom said. A graduate of Harvard College, Aubin worked at the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Washington Post. He began his employment at The Gazette in 1973 as an investigative reporter. In addition to his three National Newspaper Awards, Aubin has won three National Business Writing Awards and is a co-winner of B'nai Brith's Human Rights Award. During a gala awards ceremony, the Toronto Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders became the first person in the 52-year history of the National Newspaper Awards to win three consecutive NNAs. Saunders took his third straight critical writing award for a series of stories on the ways celebrities are made in Hollywood. La Presse's Serge Chapleau, nominated in each of the past six years, won his second straight NNA for editorial cartooning. It was the third time he won the award in those six years. The Globe, the Toronto Star and the Vancouver Sun took three awards apiece, the Canadian Press and the National Post a pair. La Presse and the Kingston Whig-Standard each took home one award. Other highlights during the award ceremony included a standing ovation for Journal de Montreal crime reporter Michel Auger, who was given the first NNA Board of Governors Award for Exemplary Journalism. Auger was shot five times in the parking lot of Le Journal de Montreal last September. Although the assailant has not been caught, police believe the shooting was the result of articles Auger wrote about Quebec's organized crime scene. Other National Newspaper Award winners last night included: Spot News Photography: Paul Chiasson, of Canadian Press's Montreal bureau for a photo of Justin Trudeau with his forehead pressed against his father's coffin following the funeral eulogy. Saturday 22 January 2000 Gazette honours top writers, editors ALAN ALLNUTT I am very pleased to be able once again to single out two Gazette writers and an editor for special mention and I to tip my hat to three of my predecessors all at the same time. Our annual editorial prizes are named for former editors Mark Harrison, Norman Webster and Senator Joan Fraser. Harrison was editor from 1977 to 1989 and was kind enough to offer me a job back in my home town after the Ottawa Journal was closed suddenly in 1980. He now lives in Ottawa but remains a faithful Gazette reader. Webster started the prize-giving tradition with the Harrison prize in 1990, to show the staff how much we value good writing at this paper. Both Fraser and I expanded on the idea. The Mark Harrison Prize for news and feature writing this year goes to Doug Sweet, whose fingerprints were all over our special Year 2000 edition on Jan. 1, but who also wrote memorably about a wide range of subjects throughout 1999. Many people know Doug as The Gazette's car columnist, a sideline he started while he worked in anonymity as a desk editor. After a stint as deputy editorial page editor, Sweet decided a few years ago to return to reporting as a senior writer with a special interest in universities and science. As his opening essay in the commemorative insert in the Jan. 1 paper demonstrated, Doug can write with the best of them, but he has the other attributes of an excellent reporter, too: he seeks to understand all sides of in issue, he is skeptical without being cynical, he separates the important from the trivial. The biggest compliment I can give Doug is this: when a complicated, contentious story that has to be done in the next few hours comes across the assignment desk, the city editor reflexively looks to see if Sweet is busy. Doug recently joined our redesign team, working on changes we want to make next fall when our new presses are fully functional. The Norman Webster Prize for editing goes to Ray Beauchemin, The Gazette's foreign editor. Beauchemin, who came to us from Boston seven years ago, produces the paper's weekday World pages. Unlike the national or city editors, Beauchemin has no staff reporters of his own and spends hours mining stories from the New York Times, the London Daily Times, the Telegraph, Los Angeles Times or Agence France-Presse, among others. He helps the Page 1 editor decide which world stories go to the front page while laying out the World pages inside the paper. He also has set up a network of "stringers" in various parts of the world, helping us better understand developing situations. The Joan Fraser Prize for opinion writing is awarded to Don Macpherson, the paper's longtime Quebec columnist. Macpherson is one of the most consistently excellent writers on our staff. He is a pro, producing four times a week, on deadline, without fuss or muss. A good many readers disagree with Don's assessments of the political landscape, but very few fail to read him. We know this from the volume of mail we get telling how wrong he is about some issues. Don is not a pontificator, but an explainer, a commentator. He helps to illuminate the sometimes murky world of Quebec politics. Saturday 5 August 2000 Au revoir, and thank you. Janet and ALAN ALLNUTT ...The staff is still one of the best in the land. We took three National Newspaper Awards this spring, so I can honestly feel I'm leaving the paper on a upturn. ...To mentors and friends who trusted me with their paper or section: Mark Harrison, Clark Davey, Norman Webster, Rex Buckland (the finest man I ever met in the newspaper business), Clair Balfour (the nicest), Mel Morris, Red Fisher and Michael. ...To some of the most talented freelancers any editor could want: Terry Mosher, Mordecai Richler, Josh Freed, L. Ian MacDonald, Bill Watson, Nick, Tommy, Rochelle, Mr. Collard, Joe Fiorito and George Gruenefeld, among dozens. ...Ashok Chandwani and Raymond Brassard have been my left and right hands lo these many years and I only wish I could give them all they deserve today. To the gentle readers (and the many not-so-gentle readers), I tip my hat. Au revoir. Alan Allnutt is editor of The Gazette. Last week he was named publisher of the Victoria Times-Colonist, effective Wednesday. Till then, readers can write him at 250 St Antoine St.W. Montreal H2Y 3R7. His E-mail is allnutta@thegazette.southam.ca Another happy note: reporter Kevin Dougherty, who has been writing for our business department in recent months, has joined The Gazette's Quebec City bureau. Dougherty brings 25 years of experience to the job, having covered Quebec politics for the Canadian Press for five of those years. Dougherty was also CP's Montreal business editor in the 1980s and bureau chief for the Financial Post for six years before a stint as communications adviser with the Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec.
	Sunday 3 May 1998 Wednesday-Night.com Thanks our Montréal GAZETTE which brings us Montréal Online a job well done by The Gazette Monday 8 March 1999 Our new Web site Montreal Online is your source for arts and entertainment info MICHAEL GOLDBLOOM .. Visitors to the site can browse through a database of more than 1,000 restaurants, which they can search by cuisine, location, nearest metro station, price, ambience, etc. In addition, Montreal Online will feature searchable listings of movies and concerts, performing arts, museums and galleries, bars, books, festivals and special events. The Gazette's movie, theatre, music, dance, art and restaurant columnists will make regular contributions to Montreal Online, making the site not just a listing of events but a resource of information and opinion. Gazette honoured at national awards   The Gazette; CP   Gazette writer Josh Freed won a National Newspaper Award last night.    Gazette writer Geoff Baker won a National Newspaper Award last night.    Gazette designer Gayle Grin won a National Newspaper Award last night. The Gazette won three awards last night as Canada's top journalists were honoured with National Newspaper Awards.  "I'm thrilled for the individuals honoured, the team that works with them and the readers for whom we do it all," said Gazette managing editor Raymond Brassard.  Josh Freed, who won his second NNA last night, was honoured for his weekly columns. Feature design editor Gayle Grin won for layout and design and Geoff Baker was honoured for his coverage of the Alouettes CFL franchise in the sports-writing category.  'Very Happy'  "I'm very happy that we won in three different disciplines," said editor in chief Alan Allnutt.  "Josh is already an institution in the city and thoroughly deserves the award.  ''Gayle is one of those treasures who labours behind the scenes, but who makes people want to read the pages she designs.  ''In winning a second National Newspaper Award at the age of 29, Geoff obviously has much more ahead in the years to come."  The Gazette's William Marsden and Rod Macdonell were finalists in the enterprise-reporting category for a story about a toxic-soil dump in LaSalle. Grin was also shortlisted for a second design award for a nomination she shared with Dean Tweed, who now works for the Globe and Mail.  'Very Proud'  "There are many components that go into producing a first-rate newspaper. The fact that we won and were finalists in hard news, investigative reporting, design and column writing is testimony to the exceptional range of talent of our staff. I'm very proud of them," said Gazette publisher Michael Goldbloom.  Mordecai Richler was honoured at Humour Award Weekend. Thursday 23 July 1998 Bantey called courageous Funeral for Gazette columnist draws separatists, federalists by DARREN BECKER Thursday 16 April 1998 Mordecai Richler lands Leacock prize 'Curmudgeonly' Quebecer wins humour award for Barney's Version JOHN MCKAY Yiddish musical based on Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz struck a hometown chord. by Pat Donnelly Mordecai Richler by ../westweb/ & the Gazette Barry Lazar a good read redesigned The Gazette and expanded its content. Subscribe Today! Twelve news organizations won awards in the competition. Forty-eight finalists competed in 16 categories, from a record 1,026 entries.  The only other triple-award winner was the Globe and Mail, which won in the international-reporting, business-reporting and critical-writing categories.  The winners received cheques for $1,500. Runners-up received $250.  This is the 49th year of the awards and the ninth under a board of governors that includes editors, publishers and members of the public as well as representatives of the Toronto Press Club.  The complete list of winners:  Spot News Reporting  Winner: Le Soleil. Honourable mentions: the Canadian Press, Montreal and Quebec City; Winnipeg Free Press.  Spot News Photography  Winner: Bruno Schlumberger, Ottawa Citizen. Honourable mentions: Ken Gigliotti, Winnipeg Free Press; Mark Van Manen, Vancouver Sun.  International Reporting  Winner: John Stackhouse, Globe and Mail. Honourable mentions: Mike Shahin, Ottawa Citizen; Leonard Stern, Ottawa Citizen.  Sports Writing  Winner: Geoff Baker, The Gazette. Honourable mentions: Stephen Brunt, Globe and Mail; Roy MacGregor, Ottawa Citizen.  Sports Photography  Winner: Andrew Vaughan, the Canadian Press, Halifax. Honourable mentions: Colin Corneau, Brandon Sun; John Major, Ottawa Citizen.  Feature Writing  Winner: Buzz Currie, Kim Guttormson, Bruce Owen, Bill Redekop, Gord Sinclair, Winnipeg Free Press. Honourable mentions: Chris Cobb, Ottawa Citizen; Carole Thibaudeau, La Presse.  Feature Photography  Winner: David Chidley, Calgary Sun. Honourable mentions: Mike Sturk, Calgary Herald; Andrew Wallace, Moncton Times and Transcript.  Business Reporting  Winner: John Stackhouse, Paul Waldie, Janet McFarland, Globe and Mail. Honourable mentions: Stephen Ewart, Sean Gordon, Calgary Herald; Paul McKay, Ottawa Citizen.  Enterprise Reporting  Winner: Kevin Donovan, Moira Welsh, Toronto Star. Honourable mentions: William Marsden, Rod Macdonell, The Gazette; Lisa Priest, Toronto Star.  Special Project  Winner: Anne Jarvis and News Team, Windsor Star. Honourable mentions: Ottawa Citizen; Stephane Lavallee, La Tribune.  Local Reporting  Winner: Tracy Huffman, Ian Elliott, Katherine Sedgwick, Port Hope Evening Guide (Sedgwick is now a Gazette copy editor). Honourable mentions: Rob Tripp, Kingston Whig-Standard; Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, Saint John Times Globe.  Editorial Writing  Winner: Carol Goar, Toronto Star. Honourable mentions: Murdoch Davis, Edmonton Journal; Linda Williamson, Toronto Sun.  Columns  Winner: Josh Freed, The Gazette. Honourable mentions: Russell Wangersky, St. John's Evening Telegram; Hugh Winsor, Globe and Mail.  Critical Writing  Winner: David Macfarlane, Globe and Mail. Honourable mentions: Lloyd Dykk, Vancouver Sun; David Warren, Ottawa Citizen.  Editorial Cartooning  Winner: Serge Chapleau, La Presse. Honourable mentions: Brian Gable, Globe and Mail; Malcolm Mayes, Edmonton Journal.  Layout and Graphic Design  Winner: Gayle Grin, The Gazette. Honourable mentions: Gayle Grin, Dean Tweed, The Gazette; Jo-Ann Dodds, Toronto Star.  Nick Auf der Maur dies The Gazette & ../westweb/
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