Judy Waytiuk: Bio
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What Editors Have Said
  • "It's a wonderful piece." Cheryl Embrett, HomeMaker's
  • "A most excellent cover story." Jim McElgunn, Managing Editor, Marketing Magazine
  • "She writes superbly and with great wit... It's a pleasure working with her." Ursula & Eldrid Retief, Editors, Canadian Traveller
  • "You managed the culinary piece really well and I loved the passion in the Quebec piece." Penny Whitman, Courier Magazine 
  • "This was a tough assignment, and you've really come through." Dan Bortolotti, Today's Parent
  • "You packed lots of mood and feeling into so few words -- really fine stuff." Penny Williams, Editor, Canadian
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Veteran Canadian writer, journalist, and broadcaster Judy Waytiuk was the first woman in Canada to become a news director in private television-- in 1987 when she left the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation after 15 years, to take on responsibility for Canwest Global TV's Winnipeg news and regional current affairs. She left television seven years later "to get my life back. Moving into management took me away from what I do best and love most-- telling stories."
Since then, she's written hundreds of features for dozens of newspapers and magazines and won five major national and international awards for her travel writing; see her Credits page for the lengthy list of major publishing credentials.
She's covered travel stories in the Yukon at forty below, the Dominican Republic at forty above, and all over North and Central America at every temperature range in between.
But her heart is happiest when she's writing about Canada.
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