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December 19, 2019 41 mins

About Our Guest:

Kristy Kirkup is a political reporter who has worked for Canada’s largest media companies over the past decade. She began her career at CTV News in Ottawa followed by stints with Sun Media, CBC News and The Canadian Press before joining The Globe and Mail. She has travelled internationally with two prime ministers and across Canada for multiple election campaigns. In 2017, she was part of a CP team that won the Canadian Journalism Foundation Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism for a series about sexual trauma in Indigenous communities. She was also nominated for a National Newspaper Award for the same project. She is passionate about using the power of journalism to shine a light in dark places and to lift up the voices of the silenced and forgotten. (courtesy of The Globe and Mail)

The Time Stamps:

History of the Job - 00:05:14

Interview Begins - 00:08:10

The Social Stuff:

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The Business Details:

Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.

More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com

Sounds You Heard:

Theme Music by Coop

Facts You Heard:

Info on the history of journalism in the Roman Empire

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/journalism#History_of_journalism

Info on early newspaper publications

britannica.com/topic/newspaper

Info on Gutenberg’s printing press

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press#section_4

Info on first newspapers around the globe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1998/02/11/a-history-of-newspaper-gutenbergs-press-started-a-revolution/2e95875c-313e-4b5c-9807-8bcb031257ad/

Info on the history of Canadian Newspaper

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/first-newspapers-in-canada

Info on history of The Globe and Mail

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/globe-and-mail

Video on the pronunciation of Flodden

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