VoicePrint's "Deadline Gold" Spotlights National Newspaper Award Winners in Toronto

TORONTO, Feb. 25, 2002 - The light will shine brightly on Wednesday, February 27 at 12:30 and 9 p.m. on three past National Newspaper Award winners: one from the Toronto Star and two from The Globe and Mail.

The Deadline Gold series will honour writer Pierre Berton, then with the Toronto Star (1960 NNA winner for staff reporting); reporter Norman Webster of The Globe and Mail (1971 NNA winner for staff corresponding); and Andrew Cohen, also of The Globe and Mail (1996 NNA winner for editorial writing).

All three articles look at nations that have undergone significant change. Mr. Webster's article focuses on China and a table-tennis tournament that changed the world. In his piece, Mr. Berton returns to Japan after a 10-year absence. In the third story, Mr. Cohen takes stock of Canada and concludes that, despite its flaws, it has become the most blessed nation in the world.

As well as looking back, Deadline Gold also will feature articles nominated for 2001 National Newspaper Awards, culminating April 26 in a live broadcast from Calgary, where this year's winners will be announced.

Deadline Gold can be heard across Canada on VoicePrint on cable through the S.A.P. of CBC Newsworld, on Star Choice channel 825, on Express Vu channel 967, on Look TV channel 100 (audio 2) or live on the Internet at www.voiceprint.ca.

VoicePrint is a division of The National Broadcast Reading Service Inc. (NBRS): a non-share corporation dedicated to enhancing access to printed news and information for 3.2 million vision- and print-restricted Canadians. Licensed by the CRTC, the round-the-clock service provides an audio version of newspaper and magazine stories, features and editorials. AudioVision Canada, the second division of NBRS, is the pre-eminent Canadian producer of description products that allows vision-restricted viewers enhanced and independent access to television and movies.

For more information, contact
Arlene Patterson, VoicePrint Manager
Tel: 416-422-4222 ext. 222
e-mail: apatterson@nbrscanada.com