Recruitment
Campaign
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The
Canadian section of the SCIJ hosted the 1995 SCIJ’s annual
meeting in Quebec, bringing together 250 international journalists.
The meeting, which took place on the slopes of the Quebec
city region, was last held in Canada in 1963 in Banff, Alberta.
This invitation to foreign colleagues, the majority being
general information journalists, gives a unique opportunity
to present to international press members, on a “one
on one” basis, the reality
of your country. International meetings, which normally last
a week, give the opportunity to interact and participate in
three friendly ski competitions (some take them seriously,
others don’t), but are also punctuated with panels on
various general interest subjects, or press conferences with
local personalities (Antonio Samaranch, president of the IOC,
at the Switzerland meeting in ‘91, Gary Hart in Colorado
in ‘92, the Toyota president, in Japan in ‘90).
A second week is available for those who wish to stay on and
try other resorts or report on tourism, economics, political
or other issues.
For many years, the Canadian section of the SCIJ, like others
in the world, was based on a simple network of acquaintances
randomlydevelopped through meetings. Since 1992, the executive
committee was given the mandate to make the club accessible
to all interested
journalists, making it a more vital and dynamic organization.
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