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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?”

Reimagining Political Journalism: Perils, Possibilities and What Comes Next

Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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.

Magazines West 2024 Conference

VSO School of Music 843 Seymour Street Willms Salon, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Magazines West Conference, or MagsWest, is British Columbia's only conference for magazine professionals and students.

The Next 50 Years of Investigative Journalism

Bram & Bluma Appel Salon Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

A collaborative event with Canada's flagship news magazine show, The Fifth Estate, as we celebrate 50 seasons of investigative journalism.

Panel: Censorship in Newsrooms

It's Ok* Studios 468 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada

A conversation with reporters in Toronto about censorship in newsrooms around Palestine and Gaza.