Matthew Allen makes plans for his eastbound March migration to CBC

It's an eight minute walk and change of media disciplines ahead for
a Prince Rupert reporter

The Prince Rupert media scene is about to get another shake up, with current Northern View reporter Matthew Allen set to pack up his belongings and haul them over to the CBC studios on Third Avenue East come some time in March.

Such is the joy that Daybreak North Carolina de Ryk has at the prospect of having someone else around to help make the morning coffee and keep the Prince Rupert end of the CBC morning program on the air, that she spread word of the hiring through twitter on Tuesday.

Tucked into the bottom of the salute to the newest member of the public broadcaster's team was the official Okey Dokey from former Daybreak Producer George Baker, who inexplicably chose to leave the relatively sedate North Coast weather back in November, for what now appears to be an endless sentence of snow shovelling in the Big City before he heads off to the CBC Vancouver studios every morning..

Once Mr. Allen has relocated to the east side of the downtown area sometime in March, he will be taking on the duties that Mr. Baker held as associate producer from the Prince Rupert studio, something which will offer the opportunity for a fair bit of  exploration of the Northwest

He follows a trail blazed by Mr. Baker, who came from the print world ten years ago to take microphone in hand and travel to the communities of the region to examine the big stories of the day.

Back at the weekly paper, it seems that Northern View publisher Todd Hamilton is keeping busy hosting a job placement service. With a recent advertisement in the back pages making note of a number of job opportunities that Black Press has in the Northwestern territory.

Included among the listings will be the need for a reporter for the Haida Gwaii Observer, with Andrew Hudson having departed the Black Press fold in January to take on duties as a grant writer on Haida Gwaii, and now a new opening in Prince Rupert to fill in the gap in the depth chart created by Allen's pending departure.

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