Pauline Dakin
BIOGRAPHY
I am a journalist who started my career in print with The Telegraph Journal in Saint John, NB and spent most of my career as a health reporter with CBC National News and as the host of the documentary program Atlantic Voice at CBC Nova Scotia. I now teach in the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax.
I am a journalist who started my career in print with The Telegraph Journal in Saint John, NB and spent most of my career as a health reporter with CBC National News and as the host of the documentary program Atlantic Voice at CBC Nova Scotia. I now teach in the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax.
Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (Viking/Penguin Random House Canada: 2017) is my first book. It won the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. It was also named one of the best 100 books of 2017 by The Globe and Mail, and was shortlisted for the BC Book Prize, the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction.
As part of the book tour to support the launch of Run, Hide, Repeat I was able to do readings across the country.
I am on Twitter at @paulinedakin and look forward to connecting!
PUBLICATIONS
- Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for “Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood”. 2018
RNAO National Award for Excellence in Health Care Reporting. Radio: Best News Story “MS Procedure Debunked” 2013
CMA/CNA Media Awards for Health Reporting, Excellence In Radio Reporting News “The Forgotten Cancer” 2010
CMA/CNA Media Awards for Health Reporting. Excellence in Radio Reporting Indepth. “Deadly Inheritance” 2009
Atlantic Journalism Awards – Enterprise Reporting, Silver Award. “The Forgotten Cancer” 2009
Canadian Science Writers’ Association, Science in Society Journalism Award. “The Forgotten Cancer” 2009
RNAO National Award for Excellence in Health Care Reporting – Radio: Best Indepth Feature Story. “The Silent Teacher” 2009
Atlantic Journalism Awards – Feature Writing for Radio. “The Silent Teacher: Body Donations for Medical Science” 2008
Canadian Association of Journalists – Faith and Spirituality. “Where is God Today?” 2008
RTNDA, Dave Rogers Award for best Long Feature “Whatever Happened to the Golden Years?” Maritime Magazine, documentary. 2007
Atlantic Journalist Awards, finalist, feature documentary “Destination Wellville”, 2007.
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RNAO National Award for Excellence in Health Care Reporting – Radio: Best National Broadcast. “Pandemic: The Threat of Avian Flu”. 2006
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc (IRE). “Seniors and Drugs: Prescribed to Death”. 2005
Canadian Association of Journalists, Don McGillivray Best Overall Investigative story, “Prescribed to Death”, 2005.
Canadian Association of Journalists, Awards for Investigative Journalism – Open Radio News/Current Affairs. “Prescribed to Death”. 2005
Canadian Association of Journalists, Awards for Investigative Journalism – CCN Matthews/CAJ Computer Assisted Report award. “Prescribed to Death”. 2005
The Michener Awards for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism, Citation of Merit, “Faint Warning”, 2004.
Canadian Association of Journalists, Awards for Investigative Journalism Open Radio, “Faint Warning”, 2004.
National Science Writers’ Association, Science in Society Award. “Fats and Carbs” 2002.
Radio/Television News Directors (RTNDA) – Ron Laidlaw award for continuing coverage. “Special Help Dog”. 1990
