Alumni who have made a mark

INDUCTION CEREMONY November 30, 2015

Join us as we toast this year’s inductees Brian Stewart, Christie Blatchford and Paul Workman at 5 p.m. at Reds Tavern at 382 Yonge Street. Light snacks and a cash bar will be available.

Stick around after for our toast to Paul Knox at 7:15 p.m. as we wish him well in his retirement. Alumni who have made a mark BRIAN STEWART CLASS OF 1964 Brian Stewart is a Ryerson Graduate (’64) who went on to a career as one of Canada’s leading foreign correspondents and current affairs journalists. Over more than three decades his reports for CBC’s The National, his acclaimed international documentaries, and his show, CBC News: Our World provided Canadians with a window on the world. A past Gemini-award winner as Canada’s Best Overall Broadcast Journalist, he is also known for his work in numerous war zones and humanitarian crises. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of and continues to contribute frequently to news analysis on CBC TV and Radio. Stewart began his long career after graduating in Journalism in Ryerson in 1964 and is included in the University Wall of Fame. Though now retired from daily journalism, Stewart continues to write a regular column for CBCNews.ca on international affairs and frequently contributes to CBC documentary and news reports. Alumni who have made a mark PAUL WORKMAN

Paul Workman grew up in the Ontario village of Arthur, population 1200, and created his first mimeographed newspaper before he knew what journalism was — selling it door to door on Main Street for five cents a copy. Then he went to Ryerson and learned what real reporters do. On his first day of classes, one of his instructors — his name was Buck Johnson — asked how many people had a dime in their pocket. Why? Because a dime meant you could jump in a phone booth and call in your scoop. Ryerson wasn’t a university in those days but it had a great school of journalism. After three years. and a couple of credits short of a diploma, Workman started his real career with the Ottawa Citizen. That lead to television — to the CBC, and then to CTV — and a lifetime of witnessing history around the world. The fall of the Berlin Wall. Scud missile attacks on Israel. The invasion of Iraq. The death of Princess Diana. The wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. The Obama White House years. Correspondent for CBC in Jerusalem and Paris; for CTV in New Delhi and Washington. And it really all started at Ryerson without a dime in his pocket. Alumni who have made a mark CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD CLASS OF 1973 Christie Blatchford was born in 1951 in Rouyn-Noranda, a copper-mining town in northwestern . She completed most of her school there before finishing high school at North Toronto Collegiate when her family moved to Toronto. Blatchford graduated from the Ryerson School of Journalism in 1973 and began a job immediately at as a general assignment reporter. Within the Globe, she moved to sports feature writer and was there for four years. She spent a short time at the before moving to the first as a lifestyle humour columnist, then as the main Page 5 news columnist. Blatchford joined the the summer before it started publishing, staying for five years as the criminal courts columnist. She left to report the same beat for the Globe, which she did for seven years until finally returning to the Post four years ago. She has also been reporting for radio for the last decade, now twice a day for Newstalk 1010.