Richard Dagenais is an accomplished writer, who, over the course of his professional career, has been called upon to write many different styles of news. He began his professional journalism career writing for print and, later, wrote news for broadcast. He has written news for several formats including youth-oriented news, straight news and a more conversational style.
When he’s not writing for his own radio, television and other journalism projects, Richard works as a broadcast journalist. He has also worked as a fill-in television sports anchor and line-up editor.
He enjoys writing creatively and this shows in his newscasting, commentaries, published essays, columns, short stories and childrens’ manuscripts.
For his commentary work, Richard Dagenais has twice been nominated as one of Canada’s best Opinion/Commentary Broadcasters. (click here to view sample scripts)
He’s written such corporate materials as news releases, official statements, political speeches and public-event content; and he’s brainstormed and helped write commercial material. He’s done copy writing as well.
Richard has been working as writer/translator for the television show, “Deconstructed”, produced in Montreal by Productions Maj. He has also done writing/translation work for Montreal’s Pixcom.
His columns and essays have appeared in the past in such Montreal publications as The Gazette, Hour, Mirror and Preview Montreal. (click here to see samples)
He’s researched, written, edited, produced and hosted several feature pieces on CHOM-FM, including a one-hour radio documentary entitled “Dating in the Shadow of AIDS.” He put together many other feature pieces for broadcast, including “The Richard Riot at Ten”, “Oka Crisis Revisited” and humorous pieces like “A Visit to Santa’s Workshop”. His re-write of the Dr Seuss classic, “The Grinch Who Stole Rock and Roll”, became a tradition on Montreal’s CHOM-FM, airing over the Christmas holidays three years in a row.
Inherently curious, Richard Dagenais enjoys researching for articles, commentaries and news stories.
Research leads to all kinds of exciting new information and writing quiz and trivia questions for games or contests comes easily to him.
He continues to submit short stories and children’s stories for publication and has a novel-in-progress.
While working as editor-in-chief and, even now, working as a broadcast journalist, he’s managed to strengthen his French-to-English translation prowess.
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