{"id":2839,"date":"2023-01-25T12:19:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2023-09-07T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:54:07","slug":"breakfast-speaker-november-18-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-november-18-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Speaker November 18, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Donna Jean MacKinnon was born in Cape Breton, emigrating to Upper Canada as an impressionable child. She attended Victoria College, U of T, and graduated with a degree in English and Near Eastern history.\u00a0\u00a0Since then Donna Jean has paid the bills as a social worker, high school teacher, buyer at the Hudson\u2019s Bay Co., antiques dealer and freelance writer before surfacing at the Toronto Star<\/em>.\u00a0There she toiled as a reporter, columnist and features\u2019 writer for 21 years.\u00a0 She wrote about everything from murder to interior design to medical break-throughs.<\/p>\n

Donna Jean\u2019s book NEWSGIRLS: Gutsy Pioneers in Canada\u2019s Newsrooms <\/em>is the result of 20 years of interviews and collecting every morsel of information about each reporter featured in the book.\u00a0Donna Jean knew each Newsgirl while she and they<\/em> were working at major newspapers. Thus the book is based on personal interviews and not dusty archival material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donna Jean MacKinnon was born in Cape Breton, emigrating to Upper Canada as an impressionable child. She attended Victoria College, U of T, and graduated with a degree in English and Near Eastern history.\u00a0\u00a0Since then Donna Jean has paid the bills as a social worker, high school teacher, buyer at the Hudson\u2019s Bay Co., antiques … Continue reading Breakfast Speaker November 18, 2023<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t