Greg Quill, a long time entertainment critic for the Toronto Star, passed away on Sunday, May 5 at 66-years-old.

Prior to becoming a journalist, Quill established a successful music career in Australia with his critically acclaimed roots band Country Radio. Quill received a grant from the Australian Council for the Arts in 1974 which enable him to move to Toronto where he began writing for local media about music and arts.

He joined the staff at the Toronto Star in 1984 as an arts and entertainment reporter and went on to become a books columnist.

Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington has passed away at age 86.

Worthington began his newspaper career as a news reporter for the Vancouver Province in 1954. He later moved to Ontario to complete a journalism degree at Carleton University and joined the staff at the Toronto Telegram as a reporter. He spent 15 years at the Telegram covering revolutionary wars and humanitarian crises around the world—travelling throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

When the Telegram folded in 1971, Worthington partnered with Doug Creighton and Don Hunt to start the Toronto Sun with over 60 former Telegram staff members. Worthington served as executive editor and then editor-in-chief at the daily paper for 12 years. He later went on to work at the Financial Post as a columnist before becoming the inaugural editor at the Sun’s newly launched sister publication, the Ottawa Sun, in 1988.

Over the course of his career, Worthington received four National Newspaper Awards, a National Newspaper Citation and was named to the Canadian News Hall of Fame.

Four publishers at Postmedia-owned daily newspapers across Canada have announced that they will be departing from the media organization: National Post publisher Doug Kelly; John Connoly from the Edmonton Journal; Guy Huntingford, from the Calgary Herald; and Marty Klyne of Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post.

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The Atlantic Journalism Awards has named veteran journalist Harry Bruce as the recipient of its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. The annual honour is bestowed upon an individual who has demonstrated a lifetime of dedication to journalism excellence in Atlantic Canada.

Bruce began his journalism career in 1955 as a beat reporter for the Ottawa Journal. He has written extensively as a columnist and reporter for numerous national and regional newspapers and magazines and has also anchored a current affairs program for CBC-TV Halifax.

Celia Ste Croix has joined the staff at the Whitecourt Star in Alberta. Ste Croix comes to the Sun Media community newspaper having recently graduated from the journalism program at Concordia University in Montreal where she worked with the layout team for The Concordian.

Kevin Ma from the St. Albert Gazette in Alberta was named the first place winner in the Journalist of the Year category at the Local Media Association awards. Ma received first place awards in four categories at the annual competition: best column writing, best feature writing, best breaking news story and best environmental coverage.

Former National Hockey League player and sports reporter Pentii Lund passed away on April 16 at age 87. Lund played for numerous NHL teams from the late 1940s through to the early 1960s including the New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins. In 1962, the retired hockey star began a new career as a sports reporter-photographer for the Fort William Times-Journal (now The Chronicle Journal) in Thunder Bay, ON.

St. Catharines (ON) Tribune sports editor Bernd Franke has been inducted into the Niagara College Knights Hall of Fame. Franke was recognized for his local athletic coverage and his efforts to raise the profile of Niagara College’s sports teams within the community and at a provincial level. Franke first joined The Tribune 16 years ago and has worked as the sports editor for the community paper since 2000.

Jonathan Clarke, a print journalism student at Sheridan College in Oakville, ON, has been named as the first recipient of the Rod Jerred Memorial Scholarship award. The memorial award was established in honour of Jerred, a former managing editor of the Oakville Beaver, who passed away in March.