High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Val Sears is an eminent Canadian journalist. Widely recognized of one of the most important political journalists of his day, he has long experience as reporter, editor, Ottawa Bureau Chief and foreign correspondent in London, England and Washington, D.C. for the Toronto Star. Val Sears has won numerous awards for his reporting including a National Newspaper Award for feature writing and for news as well as a science writing Award. He is author of the book Hello Sweetheart: Get Me Rewrite, which is a lively account of the 1950s newspaper wars between the Toronto Telegram and the Toronto Star, both of which employed him. The book has become a cult classic among journalists and appears on the curriculum of journalist schools in Canada. After retiring from the Toronto Star, Val Sears became a columnist for the Ottawa Sun from 1998 to 2005.