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Deirdre Kelly

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Covers:  Art, architecture, books, business, dance, fashion, film, popular culture, science, theatre, travel, sports.
Author, critic, editor, features writer, investigative reporter formerly @globeandmail Latest book Fashioning the Beatles @sutherlandhousebooks

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Deirdre Kelly’s Biography

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Deirdre Kelly is an award-winning investigative reporter, dance critic, arts, fashion, lifestyle and news reporter and columnist known for her work at Canada’s The Globe and Mail newspaper. In 2017, she became Editor of The York University Magazine in Toronto. Under her stewardship, The York University Magazine has taken top prizes at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards in 2020, 2019 and 2018. A two-time recipient (2020 and 2014) of the Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence on Theatre Criticism…

Deirdre Kelly’s Journalist Portfolio

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Runaway Train: John Neumeier's Anna Karenina

Runaway Train: John Neumeier's Anna Karenina

John Neumeier's Anna Karenina, at Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts until Sunday, is a cl…

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Turning Japanese - The York University Magazine

Turning Japanese - The York University Magazine

For roughly 25 years, Ted Goossen, a professor of Japanese contemporary film and literature in York Universit…

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The Untold Story Behind Fashion House Maison Margiela

The Untold Story Behind Fashion House Maison Margiela

A fledgling Toronto fashion startup has scored a coup in hosting the Canadian premiere of a documentary film …

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Karim Rashid at the Ottawa Art Gallery

Karim Rashid at the Ottawa Art Gallery

The prince of plastic is back-in Ottawa, that is. Karim Rashid, the internationally celebrated industrial des…

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Louis Vuitton Time Capsule in Toronto

Louis Vuitton Time Capsule in Toronto

"You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been." It's an old saying getting a style upda…

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Striking the Right Notes: The Music Man Plays Stratford

Striking the Right Notes: The Music Man Plays Stratford

Donna Feore's jaunty new production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man (at Stratford's Festival Theatre unti…

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Articles

Who is Peter Murrell? The former SNP chief who stole from his party

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By Paul O'Hare Verified, Deirdre Kelly Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Peter Murrell embezzled money from the party he ran for more than a decade [PA Media] As Peter Murrell was sentenced to five years and three months in jail, his lawyer told the High Court in Edinburgh the former SNP chief executive was a man "overwhelmed by feelings of embarrassment and shame". Murrell, the estranged husband of former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon, pleaded guilty last month to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party he ran for more than 20 years.
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Empathy-eliciting strategies in Javier de Isusi’s Asӯlum: Exile, migration and human rights

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By Diana Castilleja Magdaleno, Deirdre Kelly Verified, Castilleja Magdaleno
| Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja
Abstract This article examines the graphic novel Asӯlum (2017 [2015]), by Javier de Isusi (Bilbao, 1972), through the lens of migration studies, comics studies, and empathy theory. Focusing on themes of exile and human rights, Asӯlum portrays the transnational and transgenerational struggles of refugees from the Spanish Civil War to the present.
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Challenges and perspectives of Iberia and beyond

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By Deirdre Kelly Verified, Sian Edwards, Mark Gant
| Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Challenges and perspectives of Iberia and beyond
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What was your first job as a journalist?

University of Toronto student newspaper

How is social media changing news?

Instant access, increased global reach combined with intimacy, speed and subjectivity

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email; in person

Awards

Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Theatre Criticism

2014 - Arts Criticism

Canada's most prestigious arts criticism award, handed out biannually.

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Gold Medal

2018 - Best Digital Publication

The York University Magazine has been awarded one of the most coveted prizes in post-secondary communications – an international gold award by the Washington-based Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) through its Circle of Excellence competition. Considered the “Oscars” of post-secondary publishing, The York University Magazine placed first in the Digital Magazines category, which saw 21 entries from around the world.

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