Thursday, August 09, 2007

Former Radio - Canada journalist named as a CRTC commissioner


Former Radio-Canada journalist Michel Morin has been appointed as a new commissioner with the Canadian radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.

Minister of Heritage and Status of Women Bev Oda named Morin, who lives in Montreal, to the post on Wednesday, praising him in a news release as a "seasoned journalist" with "remarkable skills in persuasion and delegation."

Before retiring in 2005, Morin spent more than 34 years in broadcasting and has been a journalist and economic news editor. Most recently, he was the chief editor of TV news for Radio-Canada and the French language news network RDI.

Read more at CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2007/08/08/crtc-commissioner.html