In her long career in radio and television, she covered celebrities and sports heroes, tragedies and injustices, murders and misdeeds
Janice Johnston took to the airwaves for the first time as a country music deejay at “the mighty CKNX,” a radio and TV station in what she would always refer to as “Swingin’ Wingham,” Ontario. The story goes that the first song she spun played at the wrong speed, and her first words on air were something we can’t put in the newspaper.Janice Katherine Vitrowski was born in London, Ont., on March 2, 1960.
It appeared to be fate’s fourth – and most obvious – attempt to throw them together. She and Mr. Johnston would later discover they had attended a Kiwanis music festival together in Belleville, Ont., in high school, she a girl from London playing the euphonium, he a mallet guy from Edmonton on percussion. They had also shared a history class at Ryerson, where, as Mr. Johnston says, she “sat at the front putting her hand up all the time,” and he sat at the back not paying attention.
“The compassion was there, you’d hear it in her voice. She’d have this innate ability to just draw that person out,” Mr. Johnston believed competition made reporters better, but as much as she loved to get a scoop, she was quick and kind with her compliments to colleagues, generous with her mentorship and experience. While she could be intimidating – andSome people think crime reporters hurt those they cover. But among the flood of responses after Ms. Johnston’s death, were kind words from people whose cases she covered, people to whom she extended her microphone on the worst days of their lives.
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