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Join the Toronto CAJ chapter on Oct. 29 for a ghost walk in the city's downtown core. Learn about the city's journalistic past with a guided tour from CAJ Toronto board members. There will also be a few spectral tales along the way. Meet outside the Mackenzie House at 7 pm.
Newzapalooza burst out of the newsrooms of Toronto in 2004 like a bat out of hell on a very tight deadline. Founded by the late, great newsman Jonathan Jenkins (above, left, with Jaymz Bee), the idea was simple — harness the innate competitiveness of local reporters and editors and marry it to their undying belief…
Tune in while we explore what it’s like to report from a conflict zone, with some of Canada’s most experienced journalists. Panelists: - Lisa LaFlamme, CTV National News chief news anchor - Ray Homer, former ABC News senior producer - Laura Lynch, CBC The National reporter - Grant McDonald, Global News network managing editor Moderator:…
Tune in to hear from four experienced panelists as they explore how reporting from the Middle East introduces new challenges to journalists. Panelists: - Ray Homer, former ABC News senior producer - Sylvène Gilchrist, CBC News documentary producer/director - Tara Sutton, journalist & filmmaker - Zein Almoghraby, Journalists for Human Rights senior program manager Moderator:…
Who says it’s all dire news for the media industry? Consider these recent arrivals. The West End Phoenix is a community news monthly just launched in Toronto—ad-free and in print. The Conversation Canada is an edition of the Australian website that turns academic research into accessible articles. Discourse Media is an independent, Vancouver-based website finding…
Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, through the generosity of Richard Stursberg and Judith Lawrie, has established the Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture. The lecture honours the legacy of famed Canadian war correspondent Peter Stursberg (1913-2014), an adventurous and prolific journalist who was Canada’s last living war correspondent from the Second World War. The…
The Southam Journalism Fellows at Massey College invite you to attend a panel discussion focussing on how the challenges confronting journalism today affect civic discourse and engagement. The panelists include Ishmael Daro (BuzzFeed Canada); Ed Greenspon (President and CEO, Public Policy Forum); Asmaa Malik (Asst. Professor, Ryerson School of Journalism); and Tanya Talaga (Atkinson Fellow…
Join the Canadian Association of Journalists' Ottawa chapter to learn how to improve your use of the federal Access to Information Act. Justin Ling has recently returned to freelancing after breaking multiple stories with VICE News about the RCMP, CSIS and defence. Join him to learn how to make targeted access-to-information requests. This free session…
Using the power of media and technology to advance social change, we see Vancouver and its region as a hotbed of Solutions Media makers. This year at Media Democracy Day, leading thinkers in this new space of communication, from videographers to coders, will share their perspective its meaning and potential. We are planning a dynamic…
The Ryerson Review of Journalism is pleased to announce our upcoming conference "Covering Disaster: a critical lens". In recent times, images of smoldering wildfires, lashing hurricanes, fearsome earthquakes, and devastating mudslides inundated our newspapers, TV screens, and smartphones, feeding a never-ending public fascination with natural disasters and the human cost left in their wake. What…