Name: Voices for Change: Media’s Moment to Shine
Start: 2020-09-24T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-09-24T13:00:00+00:00
Location: Virtual event

Voices for Change: Media’s Moment to Shine

24 September 2020 @ 1:00 pm

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The death of George Floyd ignited a reckoning across every facet of our society. In media, conversations about anti-Black racism have given weight and prominence to stagnant discussions about newsroom culture and composition—and the biases found in coverage of Black, Indigenous and people of colour. Is this the year meaningful change will finally happen? Join Nana aba Duncan, host of CBC Radio One’s Podcast Playlist and Ontario’s weekend morning show Fresh Air; Karen K. Ho, a global finance and economics reporter for New York-based Quartz, a digital business news publication, and Angela Sterritt, a journalist with CBC Vancouver and member of the Gitxsan Nation, in conversation with moderator Anna Maria Tremonti, host of the CBC podcast More.

September 24, 2020
1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Nana aba Duncan is a 2020/2021 William Southam Journalism Fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College where she will be studying the experiences of racialized and women leaders in Canadian media. She is on leave from her roles as host of CBC Radio One’s Podcast Playlist and Fresh Air, Ontario’s top-rated weekend morning show. In 2015, Nana aba launched Media Girlfriends, a podcast that features women in media. Media Girlfriends has grown to include events, student scholarships and a peer network supporting racialized and LGBTQ2+ women/non-binary people working in media. Previously, Nana aba was country director with Journalists For Human Rights in Ghana. @nanaaba

Karen K. Ho is the global finance and economics reporter at Quartz. Prior to this role, Karen was a Delacorte Fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review and contributed to publications like GQ, Chatelaine, The New York Times, Fast Company, Glamour, The Walrus, Vox, The Globe and Mail and The San Francisco Chronicle. She started her business journalism career at The National Post, wrote Toronto Life’s most popular story of the last decade on a high-profile murder trial in 2015 and wrote Time’s cover story on the blockbuster romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians. She is a proud graduate of the University of Toronto and Columbia University, and is currently based in New York. @karenkho

Angela Sterritt is an award-winning journalist and author from British Columbia. Sterritt has worked as a journalist for close to twenty years with her reports appearing in the Globe and Mail, The National, CBC’s The Current, and various other national and local news programs. She currently works with CBC Vancouver as radio, television, and online reporter. She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for best local reporter of the year in 2020 and has won numerous awards for her CBC column, Reconcile This. She is a proud member of the Gitxsan Nation and is currently working as a university professor at UBC’s School of Journalism as an Asper Fellow. @AngelaSterritt

ABOUT THE HOST

Anna Maria Tremonti is the host of the CBC podcast More, a series of conversations with high-profile guests and rising stars from a variety of fields. The podcast represents a change, and a progression toward more immersive conversations following her success hosting the CBC Radio’s The Current, the flagship current affairs program she helped create. Prior to that Tremonti was a co-host of CBC Television’s investigative program the fifth estate and before that she was covering war, disaster, politics and society as a foreign correspondent for CBC’s The National, with postings in Berlin, London, Jerusalem and Washington. @amtremonti #MorewithAMT