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A chat with James Mirtle, editor-in-chief of The Athletic Canada. Mirtle spent over a decade as a sportswriter at The Globe and Mail before joining the Athletic. What lessons has he learned launching a media startup in Canada? What can the Athletic tell us about the future of sports journalism?
As a result of the nebulous definitions and various exemptions in the Employment Standards Act (2000) and the Labour Relations Act (1995), many workers in Ontario have been unable to organize for decades and have been left without basic workplace protections and rights. The entertainment industry is just one of many sectors where this applies.…
Join us for a free mixer for media workers, freelancers and students in the GTA. Enjoy FREE snacks and drinks as you make connections with your colleagues working in the media. There will also be mentors from several media outlets, including VICE, CBC, Corus Entertainment and the Canadian Press. This venue is wheelchair accessible and…
No one likes fake news, except when it’s funny, satirical—and comes from The Beaverton. Adapted from the popular website TheBeaverton.com, the weekly TV satirical news show on The Comedy Network covers Canadian and world events with deft, scathing scrutiny. Hear about the process and how a news item qualifies for that special Beaverton treatment in…
Yahoo Mail. Ashley Madison. Meltdown and Spectre. Each of these hacks has served as yet another reminder of the trust individual users place in the internet each day. Is this trust well-placed? What steps can be taken to better ensure our security online? Join Fen Osler Hampson, Director of Global Security and Politics at CIGI,…
Catherine Porter, The New York Times’ Canada bureau chief, moderates a conversation with Jodi Kantor and Emily Steel, the investigative journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein and Bill O’Reilly stories, and Jessica Bennett, who as the NYT’s gender editor, is chronicling the social reckoning it unleashed.
Journalist Carolyn Thompson shares about her experience reporting on illegal forestry in South Sudan – the newest country in the world. She will tell stories of visiting freshly-cut forests, where villagers say they have been shot at while trying to protect their environment. While villagers flee to refugee camps, the sale of teak wood is…
They are the journalists who produced some of Canada's most recent poignant and powerful stories. What challenges lie behind reporting these important pieces? From the first notion of an idea to its final fruition—and even after a story airs or is published—hear about the process and its results from three of this country's top investigative…
Join CWA Canada for a free mixer for media workers, freelancers and students in Ottawa. Enjoy FREE snacks and drinks as you make connections with your colleagues working in the media. There will also be mentors from several media outlets, including CBC, Canadian Press, National Observer, The Hill Times, Ottawa Citizen/Sun, and more.
Following a successful collaboration in 2017, Interactive Ontario and Magazines Canada have once again come together to present an event at the intersection of interactive digital media and publishing. Magazines in a Digital World: Virtual Reality Storytelling will feature a keynote presentation by Mia Tramz of LIFE VR, followed by a networking reception. Mia Tramz…