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About Our Guest:Kristy Kirkup is a political reporter who has worked for Canada’s largest media companies over the past decade. She began her career at CTV News in Ottawa followed by stints with Sun Media, CBC News and The Canadian Press before joining The Globe and Mail. She has travelled internationally with two prime ministers and across Canada for multiple election campaigns. In 2017, she was part of a CP team that won the Canadian Journalism Foundation Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism for a series about sexual trauma in Indigenous communities. She was also nominated for a National Newspaper Award for the same project. She is passionate about using the power of journalism to shine a light in dark places and to lift up the voices of the silenced and forgotten. (courtesy of The Globe and Mail)The Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:05:14Interview Begins - 00:08:10The Social Stuff:Follow Kristy Kirkup on Twitter. Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.comSounds You Heard:Theme Music by CoopFacts You Heard:Info on the history of journalism in the Roman Empirehttps://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/journalism#History_of_journalismInfo on early newspaper publicationsbritannica.com/topic/newspaperInfo on Gutenberg’s printing presshttps://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press#section_4Info on first newspapers around the globehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1998/02/11/a-history-of-newspaper-gutenbergs-press-started-a-revolution/2e95875c-313e-4b5c-9807-8bcb031257ad/Info on the history of Canadian Newspaperhttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/first-newspapers-in-canadaInfo on history of The Globe and Mailhttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/globe-and-mailVideo on the pronunciation of Floddenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo6miqL71YI