Nix Wadden
3346 Clearwater CrescentOttawa, ON, K1V 7S2 Tel: (613) 521-3570 Email: nix.wadden@sympatico.ca Author of Yesterday's News: Radio and TV Reporting in the Smallwood Era, DRC Publishing, November 2008 ($16.95). Born and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland, Nix Wadden worked as a writer, reporter, and editor in Newfoundland news media between 1952 and 1966. He served briefly at the Daily News and Telegram, but worked primarily in radio and television news. After three years with Harvey's News, which supplied major news programs broadcast on VOCM, he set up and directed that station's first newsroom operation in 1957. He later took on senior radio and TV news editor duties at CJON, forerunner of today's NTV and OZ-FM, also writing news features and a business column for the Newfoundland Herald. He was President of the Newfoundland Press Club 1959-61. He moved to Ottawa in 1966 as an Information Officer with the Federal Department of Fisheries, rising to senior communications and public affairs posts in Fisheries and Oceans, Environment and Transport departments and the Federal Communications Council, of which he was Executive Director. He is married to the former Madeline Roche of St. John's and they have two children, Dianne in Ottawa and Ron in Toronto. Since retirement, Nix has been an active amateur photographer, specializing in production of audio-visual shows, and was for ten years newsletter editor for Ottawa's 275 member RA Photo Club. He also established a long-running series of photographic exhibits presented at the National Press Club of Canada. An occasional freelance writer, contributing to such publications as the Newfoundland Quarterly, Camera Canada and Fifty Plus Magazine, Nix is author of Yesterday's News, an account of his Newfoundland journalistic career published in November 2008. This is his first book but, he hopes, not his last writing project related to his Newfoundland background. Comments on Yesterday's News
"This a great book...it's very interesting, and amusing, and really brings back the old nostalgia...I'll be very surprised if this is not a best seller."
– Bill Rowe, host, VOCM's Back Talk, St. John's, NL
"What a glorious, frolicsome romp through the fallow fields of yesteryear! I laughed a lot, wept a wee bit, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It's a super piece of work. Thanks for the memories." — Edsel Bonnell, Public Relations Professional, St. John's, NL "Nix Wadden has given us an important window on the early days of our evolution as a province. His take on the development of news media makes great reading, especially for those of us who lived through it." — James A. McGrath. P.C., former Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL "I read it in two sittings–which illustrates how much I enjoyed it. I guess I liked it so much because it's a little section of Newfoundland history made personal." — Joan Forsey, freelance writer and former Telegram reporter, Toronto, ON |