{"id":2188,"date":"2011-09-05T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T20:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2011-09-05T16:59:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T20:59:24","slug":"lisa-laflamme-beginning-the-new-era-of-ctv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"Lisa LaFlamme &#8211; beginning the new era of CTV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lisa-laflamme.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lisa-laflamme1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2190\" title=\"lisa-laflamme\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lisa-laflamme1-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lisa-laflamme1-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lisa-laflamme1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>Veteran reporter Lisa LaFlamme takes over from Lloyd Robertson this week as she becomes CTV\u2019s Chief Anchor and Senior Editor for CTV National News. This 47-year old, Kitchener \u2013 Waterloo native is not only skilled and able\u00a0as a newsman, but will be a reliable voice of reason at the end of a day.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some background notes and quotes of Lisa* :\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Began her media career in radio in 1989 and moved to CKCO News where she anchored the Kitchener\u00a0station\u2019s newscast for six years<\/li>\n<li>Co-hosted morning show <em>Canada- AM <\/em>in 2001 \u2013 2003<\/li>\n<li>Has spent a great deal of her time at CTV News overseas in war zones and in natural disasters<\/li>\n<li>The character trait that drives her most is curiousity. In her words: \u201cI\u2019m insatiable. Curiousity is why I\u2019m in the business. I never get bored. I don\u2019t even know what that is.\u201d \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>On Lloyd Robertson:\u00a0 \u201cI&#8217;m very excited about the new job and I&#8217;ll tell you right now, I owe a lot of it to Lloyd. He&#8217;s been a mentor and a friend for years and I will miss his guidance and constant presence.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On the value of empathy: \u201cIt\u2019s lacking in our world. If we could jack that up, the world would be a better place.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Her advice to would-be journalists: \u201cDon\u2019t take a job you\u2019re not passionate about, and learn to write well.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lisa starts her new responsibilities tonight. <em>All the best!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>( * &#8211; Source for some data was newspaper article &#8220;Over to you, Lisa&#8221; in Forever Young; other data from CTV website. )<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran reporter Lisa LaFlamme takes over from Lloyd Robertson this week as she becomes CTV\u2019s Chief Anchor and Senior Editor for CTV National News. This 47-year old, Kitchener \u2013 Waterloo native is not only skilled and able\u00a0as a newsman, but will be a reliable voice of reason at the end of a day. Here are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}