Global News is this year's recipient of the CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism (Large Media) at the annual Canadian Journalism Foundation Awards. The network was among the media organizations recognized at an event Thursday night at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto,...

Radio is far from dead, Caroline Gianias, President of Radio Connects, told the recent Western Association of Broadcasters (WAB) conference. However, convincing a new generation of advertising planners of that is commercial broadcasters' biggest challenge right now. Gianias asserted that common misconceptions about commercial radio...

Originally published in the May 30, 2025 edition of The Weekly Briefing Alan Dark, Chief Revenue Officer at Rogers Sports & Media, is exiting the company. Dark joined Rogers in 2014 as VP of National Sales, Media, moving into the role of SVP, Sales of...

Juliette Powell, 54, suddenly on June 3, after contracting acute bacterial meningitis. Born in Manhattan, Powell moved to Montreal at the age of eight with her French-Canadian mother. She began competing in beauty pageants at a young age, going on to become the first...

June is National Indigenous History Month. There are few audio programs that capture the spirit of the month more than Words and Culture, the Community Radio Fund of Canada-backed radio show and podcast, diving into Indigenous languages by sharing the stories of both knowledge...

My typical baseline for conferences has been joining events of 100 – 350 broadcasters and media colleagues. As such, it was both unsettling and exciting to register for Vancouver Web Summit, May 27-30, alongside 550 media, 345 speakers and a huge crowd representing 117...