John Honderich, chair of the Star’s parent company Torstar Corporation, was honoured with the 2019 Canadian Journalism Foundation’s lifetime achievement award Thursday night, in recognition of his devoted stewardship of the craft. It was also a big night for John Lorinc, a Toronto-based award-winning journalist, who was named the winner of the annual Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, which comes with a stipend of $75,000 and up to $25,000 for research expenses to work exclusively on a series of in-depth articles on a critical public policy issue to be published in the Toronto Star. Communities where no media are doing the essential job of daily journalism,” he said. Although there is not one clear remedy for the industry, the public can have a hand in steering the ship back in the right direction through philanthropy and journalism, Honderich said. He said the contributions have gone a long way toward maintaining quality journalism in the U.S, something that has proven to be a “very tough slog” in Canada.

Source: thestar June 14, 2019 01:52 UTC