Guest Moderator
Piya Chattopadhyay
Host of CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine
Panelist Bios
David Clinch
Co-founder and Managing Director, Business Development & MGP Network Partnerships at Media Growth Partners, David Clinch has over 30 years of experience in executive and entrepreneurial leadership in the media industry, beginning his career as an international journalist at CNN, then helping to lead the groundbreaking startup Storyful, that operates at the intersection of media and technology, and creating a network of professional relationships at the highest levels of both industries.
Amy Parlapiano
Amy Parlapiano is currently an editor of newsletter strategy at The Washington Post, where she writes the Post’s daily games newsletter, “Game Break.” She also worked with the product and engineering teams to create the Post’s first in-house game, “On the Record” a daily news quiz. Before joining The Post in 2022, she worked as deputy managing editor of NFL coverage at the Athletic.
Jonathan Knight, head of Games, The New York Times
Jonathan has been working in the Computer and Video Game industry for over 25 years, beginning as a Producer at Activision, and having worked as an Executive Producer or GM/Studio Head at major publishers including EA, Zynga, and Warner Bros. Interactive. He has been a production or creative leader on a number of major game franchises, including The Sims, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, The Simpsons Game, FarmVille, Words With Friends, Wolfenstein, and DC Comics. At EA, he was the creative force behind the blockbuster game Dante’s Inferno, overseeing the game’s story, development, and trans-media projects, including a comic book series, an animated feature, and the action figure. Jonathan lives in California, and is currently the GM of Games for The New York Times, operating and empowering the team that brings daily joy to puzzle solvers with games like Wordle, Connections, Strands, Spelling Bee, the mini Crossword and the legendary New York Times Crossword. Under Jonathan’s leadership, the Times’s puzzles were played more than 8 billion times in 2023.
Guest Moderator Bio
Piya Chattopadhyay
Piya Chattopadhyay is the host of CBC Radio’s THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE, a lively and wide-ranging program that helps you make sense of our changing world and reflects upon ideas in the air. Each week, Piya brings listeners a smart mix of long-form conversations, documentaries, music, and more, taking time for deep exploration, but also making space for surprise and delight.
She previously hosted CBC Radio One’s OUT IN THE OPEN, which explored one timely topic each week through revealing personal stories, passionate opinions, and challenging perspectives.
In her more than two decades as a journalist, Piya has been a reporter and host, for both radio and TV, in Canada and abroad.
She worked as a guest host for TVO’s The Agenda and for CBC’s THE CURRENT for several years. Prior to that, she was Fox News Radio’s Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem, but travelling throughout the region.
She has covered war and natural disasters, politics, healthcare and education.
Piya has reported from many international locations including Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, India, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, the Palestinian territories, Kenya, the United Kingdom and France, to name but a few.
She has received many accolades for her work including: New York Festival awards, RTDNA awards, two Gabriel awards and a South Asian Journalists Association award.
In her off-air life, Piya has a daughter and identical twin boys. She is married to fellow CBC journalist and economics correspondent Peter Armstrong.
Piya was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to parents who immigrated to the province from India in the late 1960s. She has one sister.
Follow Piya on Twitter: @Piya
