The Annual General Meeting is to be held on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008, at the Taverne Crescent, 1433 Crescent Street - formerly known as The Claddagh. The room will be open at 5.30 and the meeting will begin at 6 pm.
There will be a cash bar and free finger food.
Board of Directors, Montreal Press Club
The Organizers of the 2008 Robert Stewart Essay Competition are pleased to announce the winners of the three prizes.
First Prize of $2,000.00 goes to Richard Norman of University of King’s College in Halifax. He is in the one year Bachelor of Journalism course.
Second Prize of $1,500.00 was won by Jessica Potter. She is in her first year of journalism at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton.
Third Prize of $1,000.00 goes to Thomas Patrick Smith who is in the second year of the journalism course at Concordia University, Montreal.
The topic of this year’s essay is “Tolerance”.
The Board of the Montreal Press Club extend congratulations to the winners and a sincere thank you to all the students who submitted entries. The Board is also pleased to note the standard of writing and expression of ideas was encouragingly high. Thanks also are sent to the professors and teachers of the various programs in journalism and media studies across the country who encouraged their students to participate.
Each winner will receive a Certificate denoting the award along with the cheque.
The competition was funded this year by The Royal Bank of Canada, The Railway Association of Canada, and the Montreal Press Club.
The winning essays of 2008, 2007 and 2006 may be seen on the website, click here
Greetings and Best Wishes from the Board to all our members - current, past and prospective.
Good news about our meeting place.
The Claddagh, our meeting place for the past seven years, recently changed hands and has re-opened as the Taverne Crescent. It has new decor and an elegant new menu.
The new proprietors are happy to have us as customers and are continuing to offer the bar beer and wine at a special price as before.
Our first event under the new regime was the December Second Wednesday/Christmas Party. This was very successful - about 17 members attended and gave the food and wine rave reviews.
We hope to see more people at the January Second Wednesday - the 9th January. And in February, we may even have an extra special event.
The Montreal Press Club is now accepting entries to the 2008 Robert Stewart Essay Competition. The topic is Tolerance. There are three prizes - $2,000.00, $1,500.00 and $1,000.00. The essays should be between 1,000 and 1,200 words. The competition is open to undergraduate students in journalism, public relations and communications studies enrolled in recognized Canadian institutions. Closing date is January 31st, 2008 with winners to be announced on March 12th.
Posters announcing the competition have been mailed out to universities and colleges - look for them on your notice boards.
Details of the rules and regulations and the entry form may be found on this website under Essay Competition.
The winners of the 2007 competition are announced today - they are:
First Prize to Robert Walker a student in a joint program between Algonquin College and University of Ottawa;
Second Prize to Benjamin Aldritt of Langara College in Vancouver;
Third Prize to Effie Voulgaris of Carleton University, Ottawa.
The organizers of the competition send their congratulations to the winners and wish to thank all the other entrants for their excellent work and the interesting ideas expressed on the topic of "Honour".
The Essay Competition is organized by the Montreal Press Club to honour the memory of Robert Stewart, journalist, author, essayist and lifelong supporter of the club. Sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada, The Railway Association of Canada and The Gazette, the competition offers three prizes - $2,000.00, $1,500.00 and $1,000.00, for an essay of about 1,200 words, in English or French. It is open to undergraduate students in journalism and media studies at Canadian colleges and universities. The subject this year was "Honour".
The essays may be read on the website, click here
November 15 2006 -- The Montreal Press Club and its participating sponsors are pleased to announce the second Robert Stewart Essay Competition for full-time undergraduates studying journalism, communications or public relations at an accredited Canadian university or community college.
With prizes of $2,000, $1,500 and $1,000, it is believed to be the richest essay competition available to Canadian students on an annual basis. The competition opens for submissions on November 1, 2005 and closes on January 31, 2007. Essays must be between 1,000 and 1,200 words in English or French. Winners will be announced on March 15, 2007. This year's topic is "Honour". Contest rules and entry forms, can be found on the Montreal Press Club Web site at www.mpc-cjm.org.
The competition is intended to encourage the art of essay writing among a rising generation of communicators and to honour the memory of Robert Stewart - a much-loved member and long-serving officer of the Montreal Press Club who died in 2003. Stewart was a professional journalist, author and essayist whose work gained him widespread respect both inside and outside the journalistic community. But some of his best writing appeared in the Royal Bank Letter - a popular publication featuring brilliantly erudite essays on a broad range of topics which, at its zenith, reached some 450,000 readers every month in Canada and overseas. Examples of this work can be found on the RBC Financial Group website at rbc.com (news and information/publications/rbcletter).
The Robert Stewart Essay Competition is sponsored this year by the RBC Financial Group, the Railway Association of Canada, The Gazette (Montreal).
The Board of Directors sends Season's Greetings to all our members.
Please reserve Wednesday December 20th for our Christmas/Holidays festivity - The Claddagh's renowned roast beef dinner - from 5.30 onwards, in the private upstairs bar - at a very modest cost.
Invitations are being mailed soon.
2007 Essay Competition.
November 2006 -- The Montreal Press Club and its participating sponsors are pleased to announce the second Robert Stewart Essay Competition for full-time undergraduates studying journalism, communications or public relations at an accredited Canadian university or community college or CEGEP.
With prizes of $2,000, $1,500 and $1,000, it is believed to be the richest essay competition available to Canadian students on an annual basis. The competition opens for submissions on November 1, 2006 and closes on January 31, 2007. Essays must be between 1,000 and 1,200 words in English or French. Winners will be announced on March 15, 2007. This year's topic is "Honour". Contest rules and entry forms, can be found on the Montreal Press Club website at www.mpc-cjm.org.
The competition is intended to encourage the art of essay writing among a rising generation of communicators and to honour the memory of Robert Stewart - a much-loved member and long-serving officer of the Montreal Press Club who died in 2003. Stewart was a professional journalist, author and essayist whose work gained him widespread respect both inside and outside the journalistic community. But some of his best writing appeared in the Royal Bank Letter - a popular publication featuring brilliantly erudite essays on a broad range of topics which, at its zenith, reached some 450,000 readers every month in Canada and overseas. Examples of this work can be found on the RBC Financial Group website at rbc.com (news and information/publications/rbcletter).
The Robert Stewart Essay Competition is sponsored by the RBC Financial Group, the Railway Association of Canada, The Gazette (Montreal).