Mark Weightman. Alice Petersen. Anuschka Wright. Daniel Lacasse. Maura Broadhurst. Jackie Piroco. Antoine Tétreault. Mireille Mishriky. Edwin Janzen. Murdo Gordon.

Our alumni are featured in the media locally and around the world. Vist the Alumni News section to access an archive of stories or read the latest list of stories: 

• Le Journal de Montréal features Montreal Alouettes team president and CEO Mark Weightman (BComm, marketing, 1995) in an article about the 20th anniversary of the return to Montreal of the CFL Alouettes.
• A CBC.ca review of Quebec author Alice Petersen's new collection of short stories, Worldly Goods, mentions that Petersen won the Quebec Writer's Federation Concordia University First Book Prize in 2012 for a first collection of stories, All the Voices Cry.
• A review apears in Bahamas Local of a recent concert in Nassau by jazz singer, Faculty of Fine Arts alumna Anuschka Wright. The article mentions that Wright was accompanied on stage by two Concordia music instructors: Dave Turner and Chris Tauchner.
• Former Stingers basketball player Daniel Lacasse, currenlty director of the Express basketball program at École Secondaire Saint-Laurent, is profiled in a piece in LaPresse.ca about the school's successful girls' basketball team, which it notes has been invited to play in an elite high school league in the United States.
• An Ontario Arts Council (OAC) release, picked up by Nation Talk, announces that Maura Broadhurst has taken up new responsibilies as the OAC's Touring and Audience Development Officer.
• A Torontoist piece profiling comedy standup performer Jackie Piroco states that Piroco developed a taste for comedy while working as a waitress at Montreal’s Comedy Nest to pay for her degree in linguistics at Concordia. The same article also profiles stand-up  DeAnne Smith, who it says left her studies in Concordia's creative writing masters program to concentrate on a career as a performer.
• Canada.com lists a Concordia alumnus, Antoine Tétreault, among the competititors selected for season four of CTV's The Amazing Race. According to the article, Tétreault, of southshore St-Hubert, "was the top graduating student of his class at Concordia University." It does not mention his field of study.
• A PR News release, picked up by Bus Byway and BBC Record London, announces the publication of Philo and the Superholies, a first book by Mireille Mishriky (BA, journalism and political science, 2002). 
• Canadian Art publishes a piece by alumnus Edwin Janzen about Montreal-born artist, the late Mathieu Lefèvre.
• iStreetWire announces the appointment of Murdo Gordon (BSc, cell and molecular biology) as executive vice president of Bristol-Myers Squibb. 

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