Dave Brown (columnist)
Dave Brown is a columnist with the Ottawa Citizen. He retired in August 2003, after a 38-year career of writing daily columns about Canada's capital. He wrote more than 10,000 columns. In 2017, he continues to write a once-a-week column in the Citizen on Mondays.[1] In 2013, it was reported he was writing his column on a bi-weekly basis.[2]
He had written about questionable ethics in the professions, the excesses of the child protection system, zero tolerance, and the horrors of war through the eyes of veterans.
Brown has written more than 10,000 daily columns. His output over the years has surpassed 7.5 million words. He won a National Newspaper Award for "best columnist" in Canada in 1993[2] and has won awards from the Canadian Legion Dominion Command, and Veterans Affairs Canada. His books include Best of Brown - Window on Ottawa, published in 2003.[3] [4]
Early life
Brown was born in North Bay, Ontario and raised on Manitoulin Island.[5] He began writing for a high school newsletter at age 15, then a weekly Manitoulin newspaper after high school, then the Sudbury Daily Star in 1957. In 1960, he began with the Ottawa Journal, for which he began writing a column named "Below the Hill" in 1966. He began writing a column for the Ottawa Citizen in 1978.[2]
References
- ↑ "Columnists: Dave Brown". Ottawa Citizen.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 John Curry (Nov 21, 2013). "Dave Brown tells the story of Tom Fuller". OttawaCommunityNews.
- ↑ "Best of Brown". Amazon.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-04. Retrieved 2014-05-04.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ Canada, Veterans Affairs. "Dave Brown - Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation - Veterans Affairs Canada". www.veterans.gc.ca. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
External links
- Dave Brown, at Ottawa Citizen
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19860311&id=VK8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qu8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5391,183321
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