Shirley Muir

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Shirley Muir
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Journalist, media consultant.

She was a print, radio and television reporter, editor and producer in Winnipeg, working for the Winnipeg Sun, CBC and The Women’s Television Network. In the 1990s she was National President of the Canadian Association of Journalists, and taught journalism and public relations at Red River College. More recently, she owned a public relations firm. For some 30 years, she was married to George Douglas Stephenson. She was named a YWCA Woman of Distinction (1995).

Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Winnipeg Women Journalists Have Always Led the Way
Manitoba History, Number 70, Fall 2012

Sources:

Obituary [George Douglas Stephenson], Winnipeg Free Press, 24 December 2021.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 6 December 2024