Originally published in the Nov. 6, 2025 edition of The Weekly Briefing
Ian Caldwell, Managing Assignment Editor at CTV News Toronto and CP24, has retired after a combined 26 years with the network and 47 in radio and TV news. A 1983 graduate of the Broadcast Journalism program at Fanshawe College, Caldwell got his start in radio as an announcer and news reader at CHUC Cobourg, ON in 1978. He went on to work at CFPL London part-time while in college, before landing at CKLC Kingston. He made the move into television at CFPL-TV in 1984, where he worked as a reporter and producer until 1997 when he joined CTV Toronto. Caldwell was initially hired as a reporter, lineup editor and producer, before taking on the role of assignment editor from 2000-07. After a decade, he briefly left to serve as the Manager of Online Editorial Content at Metroland Media Group in Durham Region, before returning to CTV in 2009 as Managing Editor. He had held his current role since late 2023. Read more here.
Espe Currie, Executive Producer at Global News Calgary, was among those caught up in layoffs last month at the network. Currie had been in the role since Jan. 2024. Prior to joining Global, she had most recently served as Supervising Producer at CityNews Vancouver.
Brittany Grunig has joined My Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) as Group Promotions Director. She’ll be based in Kingston. Grunig was formerly Regional Program Director, Local Radio, Ottawa & Eastern Ontario, for Bell Media up until this past August.
Dan Reynish is Medicine Hat’s newest City Councillor. The former CHAT-TV anchor was among those who lost their jobs when Pattison Media shuttered the station in June.
Ryder and Lisa, who recently moved from mornings to afternoon drive on Edmonton’s play107 (CKPW-FM), are now being heard on a new morning show on the Oilersnation YouTube channel. The Sauce, which made its debut Monday, Nov. 3, streams live 8 – 10 a.m. MT, weekdays.
Jennifer Leask has joined CBC’s Podcast Hub in the role of Senior Coordinating Producer. Leask, former Audience Development Lead at Pacific Content, started her career with the public broadcaster, working as a reporter and producer for 15 years in Regina, Edmonton, Vancouver and Toronto.
Vanessa Case and Doug Smith are among the Canadian executives caught up in the layoff of 1,000 employees at Paramount Skydance. Case, a former Canwest, Vice Media and Blue Ant Media executive had served as VP of Content for Paramount+ and Pluto TV in Canada for the last two years. Smith had been in the role of SVP, Streaming and Content Licensing, for Canada since 2023.
Sophie Morgadinho has joined Vancouver’s Omnifilm Entertainment as Director of Unscripted, overseeing development and production of unscripted projects. Morgadinho had most recently been working as a Line Producer on various projects for Blink49 and prior to that, served as VP of Production at Vancouver’s Anaid Productions.
