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Join us at Data Driven 2024 and immerse yourself in the world of data journalism, open-source intelligence and AI. This one-day conference is your opportunity to learn from top data-driven reporters, developers, coders, and open data advocates in Canada and around the world. Sign up for hands-on workshops, network with industry peers in the heart of downtown Toronto.
Public editors, news ombudsmen and standards editors are on the frontlines of understanding and responding to public misinformation about the media. For Media Literacy Week, a week to promote public understanding of journalism and media, a panel of frontline journalists working in these unique public roles in Canada and the UK will explore the most ubiquitous misconceptions about journalists, journalism and the media.
Are you overwhelmed by the myriad newsletter formats available? From daily digests to exclusive subscriber-only content, the options can be daunting. This webinar will help you cut through the noise and identify the most impactful newsletter types for your audience.
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.
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?”
Democratic politics, always combative, has coarsened into a viciousness marked by extremism in rhetoric and tactics. Voting participation continues to decline as much of the electorate turns its back on the process. Those who are politically attentive are too often driven by rage, their anger stoked by party machines, bad faith political actors, and by hysteria and falsehood fed by the algorithms of social media platforms. Increasingly, what the public knows about the partisan theatre comes from partisan sources.
