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'84 KRISTINA MILLMAN "TFS WAS CONNECTED TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD," says Ms. Millman, on the influence the school had on her. Where else would she learn Russian or meet fellow students from China, then a closed country, or Iran, who were fleeing the revolution in 1979? After a BA from McGill, and graduate courses in Middle East politics and history at Tel Aviv University, she completed a master's diploma in journalism from Concordia University and was hired by the CBC. Stints followed in California and Hong Kong, before she settled in London, UK. Ms. Millman has been in front of the camera and on radio, but her favourite role is producing live news during an election or when news is breaking. "Think of Holly Hunter in Broadcast News," she says. Though disheartened by "gossip passing as news," she sees value in endeavours offering authentic voices, such as the channel she helped launch recently aiming to tell stories for and by Africans. To students aspiring to journalism, she says to T expect highs and lows – but not to get discouraged: "You can get over just about anything by putting one foot in front of the other." PERHAPS NOT SURPRISINGLY, given that his mother, Bernadette Evans, was his Grade 6 English teacher (and later the West Campus principal), Pete Evans is a writer. After receiving his BA in history from the University of Toronto's St. Michael's College, where he was also editor-in-chief of The Mike, the college's newspaper, he went on to study for his master's in journalism at Ryerson University. It was at Ryerson where a professor suggested he specialize in business news. An internship at the Financial Post soon t followed where "they dropped me in the deep end. I was producing two to three stories every day," he says. He not only survived, but ended up working for them as a summer student. Seven years ago, Mr. Evans landed at the CBC where he is a senior business writer. "I'm not just doing journalism for the investor class. It's making readers aware of financial news that will impact them." As for his advice to budding journalists, he says, "Have an understanding of how devices work and how people will read your story on a three-and-a-half-inch screen. Should that paragraph be an infographic instead? There are many different kinds of storytelling." ALUMNI IN THE SPOTLIGHT THE TRUTH SEEKERS Whether you watch at 6 o'clock or 24 hours a day, the news never quits. by Maryann Shemansky MEET TWO ALUMNI JOURNALISTS, KRISTINA MILLMAN '84 and PETER EVANS '98, both of whom have worked in different media, in different parts of the world, but who both also maintain the fourth estate's core values: to hold those in power to account and offer voice to those who may not be represented. PETE EVANS N VA VA E E T E P A P 32 TFS ENTRE NOUS 2016

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