Longtime broadcasting and communications journalist Norma Reveler has died. 

Friends said Reveler passed away Thursday night following a long battle with skin cancer.

Well-known within the Canadian broadcasting industry, Reveler was the former editor of Canadian Communications Reports (CCR), a broadcasting industry news service now published by The Wire Report.

“She just recently married her longtime boyfriend Will Butler,” Debbie Lawes, a longtime friend of Reveler’s and former owner and editor of Tech Media Reports, which previously published CCR, said in an email to friends and colleagues.

Lawes met Reveler when they were journalism students at Ottawa’s Carleton University and later worked together when Reveler was the editor of CCR.

In an interview, Lawes said Reveler always showed determination to get to the bottom of a story assignment.

“She was so committed and so methodical in how she approached things. She never got angry or frustrated. Not her. She was like a dog with a bone. She would follow the story, and if she couldn’t get one source, she would go after another, and another, and another,” she said.

“She would get the story every single time.”

Lawes added that Reveler was “a mainstay” of the broadcasting industry, reporting on it for longer than she could remember. 

Most recently, Reveler worked as a contributor to Cartt.ca, a telecom and broadcasting industry publication.

Greg O’Brien, editor and publisher of Cartt, said in an interview that Reveler wanted to keep writing. Just last month, she covered the Banff World Television Festival for the publication.

“She even volunteered to do something that’s coming up next month,” he said. “She really enjoyed writing and was really good at what she did.”

Lawes said Reveler was about to turn 47 on Sunday.

Hulse, Playfair & McGarry is holding visitations from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. on Sunday. A funeral will be held Monday at 1 p.m., followed by a reception.

Both services are open to the public and take place at Hulse’s Central Chapel, 315 McLeod St., Ottawa.

Contact Ryan O'Neill at 613-232-5952 ext. 222 or roneill@thewirereport.ca
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