September Meeting: The Role of Cobourg Newspapers in Creating Community
Our September meeting will explore the importance of newspapers in Cobourg from the perspective of two local newspaper reporters: Robert Washburn and Wally Keeler.
Robert Washburn is an award-winning educator in the Journalism Program at Loyalist College where he teaches new and emerging technologies in journalism. A practicing journalist for 40+ years, he is well known locally for his weekly current affairs radio show Consider This Northumberland. Robert worked full-time at the Cobourg Star from 1988 to 1997. He continued to work in the community as a columnist, part-time reporter, and advocate for local news.
Wally Keeler, in the 1960s and 1970s, had a regular beat at the Cobourg Sentinel Star as a court reporter in the Old Bailey in Victoria Hall. Tuesdays were Cobourg Police Day and Thursdays OPP Day. Wally also covered the culture beat, coffee houses, folk music and poetry in the basement of the Anglican Church and has been a long time poetician in Cobourg’s poetry scene.
Note that due to having two presenters this meeting will be somewhat longer than our usual meetings.
Join us on Tuesday, September 24, 2024 for an informative presentation in Cobourg’s Victoria Hall. Doors open at 7:00 pm. All are welcome.
There will be coffee/tea and the usual cookies so bring a friend or two!
Members free and guests are $5.00.
News & Notices
Includes topics of local interest as well as
news and notices of a more general nature.
