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Adele was the big winner of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards gala.

The young British singer went home with six Grammy Awards for her album 21, including album of the year, record of the year and song of the year with Rolling in the Deep.

According to the CBC, Adele underwent vocal cord surgery last fall, and she performed for the first time since at Sunday’s gala.

She also won the awards for best pop solo performance for Someone like You, best pop vocal album and best short form video for Rolling in the Deep.

The Grammy’s night opened up with a tribute show to the beloved Whitney Houston who untimely passed away in her Beverly Hills hotel room on Saturday.

Many artists also paid tribute to the singer as they walked up the red carpet to get their awards.

The Foo Fighters were not far behind Adele and went home with five Grammy Awards, including best rock album for Wasting Light.

Kanye West, though not in attendance, came third with four Grammy Awards on seven nominations, including best rap album and best rap song for All of the Lights.

The best new artist award went to Bon Iver, and best dance/electronica album went to American electronic music producer Skrillex.

The Canadian world  known DJ Deadmau5 was shut out in his category, as where Canadian artists Drake and Sum 41.

The late Amy Whinehouse also won an award, and her parents were there to take it on her behalf.

Many great performers took the stage last night, and many paid tribute to Whitney Houston.

Read by Shaun Malley

Produced by Erica Bridgeman

Stories written by Alyssa Tremblay, Audry Folliot, Chris Hanna and Tara Brockwell.

There will be new conditions attached to a hundred thirty billion euro bailout for Greece.

According to the BBC website, the chairman of a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker, said the Greek parliament will have to pass a package of cuts and reforms as early as Sunday.

The Greek politicians are also required to find 325 million euros extra in savings for 2012.

Junker, the prime minister of Luxembourg, also requires that the political leaders ensure that the reforms be maintained after the April elections.

The Greek unions are not satisfied with the measures, and had called a forty-eight hour strike to protest against them, starting Friday.

EU economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn said the Eurozone countries were considering to block a portion of the state revenues to guarantee the payments of bailout loans, by creating a separate account for the country.

But Europeans ministers still feel that these plans might not be enough to create a sustainable economy for Greece.

It is the second bailout of this kind on Greece.

Lenders are insisting on more austerity measures in return for the loan.

Part of the plan agreed to by the Greek government includes major job cuts and a twenty-two per cent decrease in the minimum wage. 

The EU, IMF, and European Central Bank, on the other hand, want to reform the pension system.

No deal has yet been finalized, and unions strongly protest the plans.

US President Barack Obama said he was willing to help stabilize the Eurozone.

Three famous Montreal broadcasters came to speak at Concordia University on February 8^th for the first of the JSA’s lecture series.

They were invited to talk about their job, and offer some advice to aspiring journalists.

Starting off as a young journalist in the broadcasting world when you just graduated from journalism school is not easy.

If you don’t have confidence in yourself, or are not motivated enough by the profession, applying for your first job might be a totally depressing experience.

You will get tons of no’s, many employers won’t even bother following up on your applications, and you might have to send out over fifty resumes before someone actually calls you back.

But, as Jamie Orchard, Global Montreal’s anchor, suggests, if you do your best to gather all the experience you can get, doors will open for you.

“A lot of people think it’s just going to happen, and it’s really not just going to happen until you make it happen. You’re not just going to walk into Global and get a job. You’re going to have to have some kind of experience somewhere else. It’s very very rare that you would just walk in and get a job, so you need to think about where can I go where they will hire me and get that experience and then come back if this is the market you want to be in, you know.”

So this might mean that you will have to leave the comfort of your home and move to another province in order to gather the experience that you need to find a job in Montreal.

But as a young student, now is the time to travel and discover the world, and this might just be the experience of a lifetime.

After, you might come back to Montreal and get the job of your dreams.

Working in the broadcasting field is quite a challenge, and it is not always easy to deliver the facts to the audience in an objective way.

As Barry Wilson puts it, being yourself helps your credibility.

“You got to be who you are, because viewers, and I’m sure listeners too, you know, they’ll pick it up.”

Mike Finnerty agreed.

“They definitely can tell fake, you definitely have to put yourself out there, otherwise, it doesn’t sound real, it doesn’t sound genuine.”

Journalism is a hard profession, because you always have to be on top of everything,  and you have to know what you are talking about.

Being a broadcaster might be really stressful at times, and you might have varying schedules, but it still is possible to raise a family and manage your time well.

Being prepared and organized is a key skill for a journalist, and you have got to respect your deadlines when you are assigned a story to cover.

But overall, it is normal to make mistakes when we start, and all those skills will come naturally with time.

The lecture was very interesting and was very helpful for the journalism students gathered to listen to it.

To learn more about the Journalism Student Association and the events they hold, visit the JSA Concordia Facebook page.

Audrey Folliot, CJLO News