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Brodie Fenlon named inaugural recipient of the FIMS Alumni Award of Excellence

June 2025

The Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) is delighted to announce that Brodie Fenlon, MA’99 (Journalism) has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural FIMS Alumni Award of Excellence. The award recognizes the recipient for their outstanding professional achievement, community service, service to the university, or social impact and innovation.

Brodie graduated from the Master of Arts in Journalism program in 1999 and has gone on to a long and impactful career in Canadian journalism, arriving at his current role as General Manager and Editor In Chief of CBC News in 2024. He will be on-hand in London to accept his award on September 27, 2025, during Western’s Homecoming celebrations.

“Brodie Fenlon knows journalism inside out, from general assignment reporting to editorial oversight on all platforms in every community the CBC reaches across the country and around the world. He cares and he responds to a hard job with principle and forward motion, even when the future of the CBC itself is on the line. FIMS has a lot to recognize him for,” says FIMS Dean Lisa Henderson.

As the General Manager and Editor In Chief of CBC News, Brodie oversees the journalism and standards for all the editorial efforts of CBC’s English Service journalism, and is responsible for CBC’s programs and operations across news, current affairs and local services, including 48 local bureaus and stations, and four international bureaus.

After earning a teaching degree at Lakehead University, Fenlon entered the graduate journalism program at Western University, then worked as a reporter for The London Free Press, The Toronto Sun and later The Globe and Mail. In 2011, he helped launch The Huffington Post Canada before moving in 2013 to the CBC, where he’s held a number of leadership roles. He also taught journalism at Centennial College.

This is the first year that FIMS has presented an alumni award of excellence to a graduate in the 25 years since FIMS formed as a Faculty at Western in the late 90s. The FIMS alumni community includes all the alumni of its two founding professional schools, the Graduate Program in Journalism and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, as well as graduates from Western’s journalism and library science degree programs that existed prior to the establishment of the graduate schools. FIMS takes enormous pride in the many thousands of alumni who are making an impact in their communities and professions.

For more information about the FIMS Alumni Award of Excellence, visit the website.