Lucinda Chodan

Lucinda Chodan is editor-in-chief of the Victoria Times Colonist. Before that, she spent 20 years at the Montreal Gazette, occupying positions that included deputy editor, readership development editor and senior news editor.

While she was at The Gazette, she was also involved in the startup of several new sections, including Woman News, a section of particular interest to female readers; eXpress, for young people; and Weekender, a Saturday leisure and lifestyles section.

She began her daily newspaper career at the Edmonton Sun, where she worked as an entertainment reporter.

Lucinda received a National Newspaper Award for feature writing in 1986 and was awarded a certificate of merit the same year for enterprise reporting.

She has done extensive freelance work for such music publications as Country Magazine and Canadian Musician. She has also taught writing and reporting at Concordia University in Montreal.

Lucinda is a native of north-central Alberta.

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