Rose Kingdon, 65, on March 27. Kingdon began her four-decade career in broadcasting at CKLA Guelph as summer relief, following her graduation from the Radio Broadcasting program at Humber College in 1981. From there, she moved on to CKEY Toronto in 1984, before joining The Canadian Press (CP) subsidiary Broadcast News the following year. She held various roles over the years, starting as a reporter and editor, news reader, and later Audio Supervisor and Supervising Editor/Audio, before being named CP’s Broadcast News Director in 2012. Kingdon helped guide the wire service’s breaking news coverage across numerous events from federal and provincial elections to Olympic Games, the World Trade Center Attacks, and Canada’s mission to Afghanistan, among many other stories, leading the team to numerous RTDNA Awards and a New York Festivals Radio Award. She was awarded the RTDNA Lifetime Achievement honour in 2023, the year she retired after 38 years with the wire service.