Past Events: 2010/2011 Season

WHERE/WHEN	DESCRIPTION		STATUS
TORONTO 2011/05/17 6:30 p.m. Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto	Meet the Minds Behind Canada's Online News Start-ups Jeff Anders, CEO and co-founder of The Mark; James Baxter, founding editor and publisher of iPolitics; David Beers, founding editor of The Tyee; and Wilf Dinnick, founding editor and CEO of OpenFile, share their business and editorial visions. Discussion moderated by BNN host Andrea Mandel-Campbell.		View the event report
TORONTO 2011/04/19 6:30 p.m. Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto	Social Media Meets Traditional Election Coverage Mark Blevis, a digital public affairs strategist whose data crunching has been sourced by the Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and others, shares his findings on the role of social media in the election. Chris Boutet, senior producer of digital media at the National Post, and Kenyon Wallace, Toronto Star online editor and reporter, join Mark in a discussion of Canada's first so-called "social media election" and its coverage. Jesse Hirsh, internet strategist and broadcaster, moderates and directs the Q&A.		View the event report
TORONTO 2011/02/15 6:30 p.m. Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto	The Vaccine-Autism Link Controversy: A Science Journalism Case Study Brian Deer, investigative journalist with The Sunday Times, shares his experiences investigating research that linked the MMR vaccine and autism. He is joined in a panel discussion moderated by Daily Planet host Jay Ingram and featuring Penny Park, executive director of Science Media Centre Canada; Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, UHN staff respirologist and a deputy editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal; and Dr. Miriam Shuchman, chair of the Research Ethics Board at Women's College Hospital.		View the event report
TORONTO 2011/01/18 6:30 p.m. Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto	A Look Ahead: Journalism in 2011 Join Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, and Nora Young, host of CBC Radio's Spark, as they ruminate, anticipate and speculate on what’s in store for journalism in 2011.		View the event report
TORONTO 2010/11/16 6:30 p.m. Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto	What's Next for Broadcast News? The Canadian Journalism Foundation welcomes Mark Lukasiewicz, VP of NBC News Specials and Digital Media, to Toronto. He is introduced by Executive Director of Documentary Programming for CBC Television, Mark Starowicz.		View the event report
TORONTO 2010/10/21 6:30 p.m. Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto	Newspapers - The Strategic Generation John Stackhouse, editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail, is the man realizing the newspaper's new vision. Hear what he has to say. Join John Stackhouse in conversation with Ira Basen, producer of the award-winning CBC radio documentary series Spin Cycles and News 2.0.		View the event report
TORONTO 2010/10/12 5:00 p.m. Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto	Annual Democracy & Journalism Lecture -- David Miller: The View from City Hall Toronto mayor David Miller delivers the fourth annual Democracy & Journalism lecture, discussing the relationship between democracy and journalism from his unique perspective. In collaboration with the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.		View the event report
TORONTO 2010/09/27 11:45 a.m. Concert Hall, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto	David Frum: The State of Political Journalism David Frum, political journalist and columnist and the creator of FrumForum.com, discusses the state of political journalism. In collaboration with the Canadian Club of Toronto.		View the event report

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