Joyce Napier

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Joyce Napier
Born (1957-06-15) June 15, 1957 (age 66)
Montreal, Quebec
NationalityCanadian
OccupationTelevision journalist
SpouseNeil Macdonald
RelativesNorm Macdonald
(brother-in-law)

Joyce Napier (born June 15, 1958) is a Canadian television journalist. Formerly a correspondent for the news division of

Société Radio-Canada, the French-language arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,[1] she became, in March 2016, the parliamentary bureau chief for CTV News.[2]

Born in Montreal, Quebec, she spent her childhood in Europe where her father worked for the Encyclopædia Britannica. She returned to Montreal to study journalism.

She began her career as a print journalist, working as a Montreal correspondent for

Canadian Press before joining the Montreal newspaper La Presse as a reporter. She began working for CBMT as a television reporter in 1989.[3] Around the same time, she married Neil Macdonald, a reporter with the English division of CBC News. She first joined the CBC's French service in 1992 as part of a project within the CBC, in which she and Radio-Canada journalist Pierre Mignault exchanged jobs for a year in order to provide the CBC with staff input regarding the different organizational cultures of the two divisions.[4]

During the

Québécois accent, meant that Napier lacked the requisite knowledge of Quebec history to understand that the answer was self-evident and did not need to be explained.[5] Tremblay subsequently apologized for the remark.[6]

Napier was named Radio-Canada's Middle East correspondent in 1998, at the same time as Macdonald was assigned to the same role with the CBC's English division.[7] In 2003, Macdonald and Napier were both reassigned by their respective networks to the Washington, D.C., bureau.[8] In 2005, Napier conducted the first media interview granted by Karla Homolka after her release from prison.[9]

She announced that she was taking a one-year sabbatical from the network in May 2014.[1] She returned in August 2015 as a correspondent in the network's national parliamentary bureau in Ottawa, Ontario,[10] before transferring to CTV in 2016. Napier was let go from CTV on June 14, 2023, along with several other high-profile CTV journalists primarily stationed outside of Canada, in a round of job cuts consisting of 1300 Bell Media employees nationwide.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Joyce Napier en congé d'un an". La Presse, May 8, 2014.
  2. ^ "CTV Announces Appointment of Ottawa Bureau Chief" Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine. Broadcaster, March 11, 2016.
  3. Montreal Gazette
    , November 3, 1989.
  4. ^ "Stopping at le snack-bar for a taste of mixed language". The Globe and Mail, January 19, 1993.
  5. ^ a b "Non-Quebecois accent sounds ignorant to MP". Vancouver Sun, October 18, 1995.
  6. ^ "Leaders on both sides eating their words". Edmonton Journal, October 18, 1995.
  7. ^ "Reporter savours dream job in Israel". Ottawa Citizen, July 14, 1998.
  8. Montreal Gazette
    , November 15, 2003.
  9. Victoria Times-Colonist
    , July 5, 2005.
  10. ^ "Information à Radio-Canada : l'illusion parfaite". Le Soleil, August 14, 2015.
  11. ^ A, Samrhitha; Soni, Aditya (2023-06-14). "Canada's Bell deepens news industry gloom with 1,300 job cuts". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
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