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10 Facts About Joyce Napier

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Joyce Napier was born on June 15,1958 and is a Canadian diplomat and former television journalist, currently serving as Canada's ambassador to the Holy See.

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Joyce Napier began her career as a print journalist, working as a Montreal correspondent for The Globe and Mail and Canadian Press before joining the Montreal newspaper La Presse as a reporter.

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Joyce Napier began working for CBMT as a television reporter in 1989.

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Joyce Napier first joined the CBC's French service in 1992 as part of a project within the CBC, in which she and Radio-Canada journalist Pierre Mignault exchanged jobs for a year in order to provide the CBC with staff input regarding the different organizational cultures of the two divisions.

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Joyce Napier was named Radio-Canada's Middle East correspondent in 1998, at the same time as Macdonald was assigned to the same role with the CBC's English division.

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In 2003, Macdonald and Joyce Napier were both reassigned by their respective networks to the Washington, DC, bureau.

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In 2005, Joyce Napier conducted the first media interview granted by Karla Homolka after her release from prison.

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Joyce Napier announced that she was taking a one-year sabbatical from the network in May 2014.

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Joyce Napier returned in August 2015 as a correspondent in the network's national parliamentary bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, before transferring to CTV in 2016.

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Joyce Napier was let go from CTV on June 14,2023, along with several other high-profile CTV journalists primarily stationed outside of Canada, in a round of job cuts consisting of 1300 Bell Media employees nationwide.