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Decolonization strategies in film and journalism

Online

“Documenting Indigenous Clean Energy Initiatives Through Mobile Journalism: Employing Conciliatory Innovative Practices" is a research-creation project centred in the Department of Journalism at Concordia University.

Free

Decolonizing the Media with Kelsie Kilawna of IndigiNews

Zoom Video Webinar

The Canadian media has been claiming to tell the truth for a long time. In representing truth as an institution of a colonial nation, the media has also been imposing a version of truth that does not leave space for the ways of knowing, learning, and sharing that have existed on this land for thousands of years.

Trauma-informed reporting workshop

Zoom Video Webinar

Guest speakers Arvin Joaquin from OMNI News: Filipino Edition and Shalu Mehta from The Discourse will discuss what trauma is, how to cope as a journalist, and how to work with sources and trauma.

$5

Atkinson Lecture 2022: “No, I’m not a restaurant critic” and other notes on food reporting

Ryerson School of Journalism 80 Gould Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto Star food reporter Karon Liu talks about his unconventional path towards being a professional food writer and what it means to cover food in a post-celebrity chef era in an incredibly diverse city like Toronto (and why he thinks it's one of the best places for food in the world).

Free

Reimagining Business Journalism

Online

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted labour markets globally. Housing affordability, precarious work, stagnant wages, social isolation, labour inequity and the drive to automation, are some of the major challenges facing the modern employee.

Disinformation on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic

Online

A panel discussion presented by the Faculty of Information & Media Studies and open to everyone. This panel will discuss many of the challenges confronted by journalists today with identifying and combatting disinformation. The panel brings together academic experts in the field of journalism and communication with professional journalists working on the ground. The panel…

Free