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Newzapalooza 2024: The Live Band Karaoke Edition!

Rivoli 334 Queen St W, Toronto, ON, Canada

Welcome to the return of The Media Event of the Year (TM), if we do say so ourselves! Twenty years after Toronto area media bands first took to the stage to compete for bragging rights and little else, Newzapalooza returns after a pandemic hiatus with a live karaoke band edition at Rivoli Toronto. The Approximators are poised to back you and other fab media types with a song catalog that is sure to please, with all proceeds, as usual, to the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada.

Will Games Save Journalism?

Since the first newspaper crossword appeared in the New York World in 1913, puzzles have served as a gateway to news consumption for game enthusiasts who might not otherwise read the news. Over a century later, news organizations continue to attract audiences through games like crosswords, Wordle, and Sudoku. The panel will explore questions such as “What does a games editor do?” and “What does the pathway from Wordle enthusiast to news reader look like?”