Former 100 Huntley Street Co-Host Calls it a Career

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Faith journalist Lorna Dueck retires as CEO of Crossroads Communications

By: John Longhurst for Winnipeg Free Press
05/9/2020 

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SubmittedLorna Dueck, 60, has retired as CEO of Crossroads Communications, which describes itself as Canada’s leading provider of faith and values content, and of Yes! TV, a commercial TV station dedicated to providing positive family-friendly entertainment..
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In 1994, some friends who worked in church-related communications and journalism gathered in a Winnipeg restaurant to say farewell to local journalist Lorna Dueck.

Dueck was moving to Toronto to take up a new job at Crossroads Communications as co-host of 100 Huntley St., Canada’s long-running Christian TV talk show.

Twenty-six years later, Dueck, 60, has retired as CEO of Crossroads, which describes itself as Canada’s leading provider of faith and values content, and of Yes! TV, a commercial TV station dedicated to providing positive family-friendly entertainment.

It was a long and winding road for Dueck, who started her journalism career in 1977 as the first female news reporter at Golden West radio in Altona.

She went on from there to work in radio in Boissevain and Winnipeg before going to CKX TV in Brandon. After that she and her husband, Vern, moved to Saskatchewan, where she was a freelance religion writer for the Saskatoon Star Phoenix before returning to Manitoba and filing faith stories to the Free Press.

It was “a big jump,” she says of going from being a freelance writer to being co-host of a live TV show.

After co-hosting 100 Huntley St. for eight years , she left to start her own current affairs show from a faith angle, titled Context with Lorna Dueck. This included moving into rented office space in the CBC headquarters in downtown Toronto so faith could be at the heart of that national media universe.

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