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SUMMARY:The Podcast Promise
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Podcasting has become a rare bright spot for the news industry. According to a recent report from the Reuters Institute at Oxford University\, the number of news podcasts globally rose by almost 12\,000 in just 10 months\, between January and October 2019. Whether it be true crime investigations\, daily news\, marginalized voices\, niche topics or in-depth conversations\, podcasts are also taking hold throughout Canada. What is this popular new journalism all about and why does it matter to the profession’s future? Master interviewers\, expert storytellers and those who bring a depth of subject-specific knowledge share their experiences of launching a podcast in Canada and the challenges of creating compelling audio narratives. \nJoin our speakers: \n\nAward-winning podcaster Connie Walker\, former host of Missing & Murdered from CBC News and CBC Podcasts\, now developing a podcast for Gimlet Media out of New York\nAnna Maria Tremonti\, host of new CBC podcast More\nVicky Mochama\, podcast host and principal at Vocal Fry Studios\, and Culture and Society editor at The Conversation Canada\nPolitical strategist David Herle\, principal partner of The Gandalf Group and host of The Herle Burly\nModerated by BuzzFeed News editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud\, a co-host of Party Lines from CBC News and CBC Podcasts\n\nThursday\, February 6\nDoors open 6 p.m. | Discussion 6:30 p.m. | Reception 8:00 p.m. \nTMX Broadcast Centre\nThe Exchange Tower\, 130 King St. W. (View map)\n– Watch the livestream  \n– View the photos\n– Watch the video\n–  Listen to the podcast [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15078″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1492008828909{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column] ABOUT THE SPEAKERS [vc_column_text]Connie Walker is an investigative reporter and former host of Missing & Murdered\, from CBC Podcasts and CBC News. She recently joined Gimlet Media\, based in New York City and is developing a new podcast that will be out later this year. Connie is a member of the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan. @connie_walker \nAnna Maria Tremonti is the host of the new 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 \nVicky Mochama is a writer and podcast host\, and is a principal with Vocal Fry Studios. She has written for the Toronto Star\, StarMetro\, VICE\, Globe and Mail\, and Hazlitt. She was the host of Safe Space and former co-host of Canadaland Commons. She also hosts No Little Plans\, a podcast about the UN Sustainable Development Goals; the project is a Vocal Fry Studios production in partnership with Community Foundations of Canada and Strategic Content Labs. She is also the Culture and Society editor at The Conversation Canada. @vmochama \nDavid P. Herle is principal partner with The Gandalf Group. David is a public affairs and corporate strategist\, helping CEOs manage crises\, union leaders shape their public appeals and directing winning campaigns for both prime ministers and premiers. David has appeared on CBC’s The National\, where he provided biweekly commentary on “The Insiders” panel from 2008 to 2017 and during the 2019 federal election. The Herle Burly was created as a platform for honest talk and respectful debate\, in the midst of something fun and rambunctious. Starting in 2017\, guests such as David Axelrod\, Robbie Robertson\, Thomas Frank and George Will have sparred with David about politics and culture. @TheHerleBurly[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1492008828909{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column] ABOUT THE HOST [vc_column_text]Elamin Abdelmahmoud is a news curation editor with BuzzFeed News\, and writer of Incoming\, the BuzzFeed News daily morning newsletter. He is also a co-host of Party Lines from CBC Podcasts and CBC News\, a columnist for CBC Radio and a frequent culture and politics commentator for CBC News. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail\, Maclean’s Magazine and Chatelaine. His debut collection of essays\, Son of Elsewhere\, will be available fall 2020. @elamin88[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \n J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nIN-KIND SUPPORTERS \n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”2119″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nASPIRING JOURNALISTS SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2214″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://cjf-fjc.ca/event/the-podcast-promise/
LOCATION:TMX Broadcast Centre\, The Exchange Tower\, 130 King St. W.
CATEGORIES:2020
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SUMMARY:Postponed: Decoding Digital Discontent: Kara Swisher Talks Tough on Today’s Digital Media Ecosystem
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]WE REGRET THAT THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. We apologize for any inconvenience. For questions\, contact programs@cjf-fjc.ca. \nWith her signature no-holds-barred toughness\, Kara Swisher is a singular force when it comes to covering the all-pervasive tech industry and Silicon Valley. Across many platforms\, she gives voice to today’s digital discontent — privacy concerns\, ethical issues\, tech regulations and U.S. politics. Swisher co-founded the technology news site\, Recode\, in 2014\, hosts and produces the popular podcast Recode Decode and co-founded the Code Conference\, an annual gathering of global tech leaders. She is also a contributing writer for The New York Times. In conversation with Kevin Newman\, host of the podcast Attention Control\, Swisher will discuss how the decisions of today’s tech leaders impact the health of our media and our democracy. \nThursday\, February 6\, 2020\nDoors open 6 p.m. |  Discussion 7 p.m.\nIsabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles St. Toronto[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1492008828909{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column] ABOUT THE SPEAKERS [vc_column_text]Kara Swisher is the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode\, producer and host of the Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts and co-executive producer of the Code Conference series. She is a New York Times contributing opinion writer and a contributor to NBC\, CNBC and MSNBC. Swisher co-founded Recode and\, before that\, co-produced and co-hosted The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference series (now called the Code conference) with Walt Mossberg starting in 2003. It was\, and still is\, the country’s premier conference on tech and media\, with interviewees such as Bill Gates\, Steve Jobs\, Mark Zuckerberg\, Jeff Bezos\, the Google leadership\, Tim Cook\, Jack Dorsey and many other leading players. She and Mossberg were also the co-executive editors of a tech and media Web site\, AllThingsD.com\, founded in 2007. Swisher worked in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. For many years\, she wrote the column “BoomTown\,” which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and online at WSJ.com. Previously\, Swisher covered breaking news about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. Earlier in her career\, Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington\, D.C. Swisher is also the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates\, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web and the sequel\, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1492008828909{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column] ABOUT THE HOST [vc_column_text]Kevin Newman is host and executive producer of the ground-breaking podcast Attention Control with Kevin Newman. It is the first charity-funded independent journalistic podcast in Canada\, in association with McGill University in Montreal. Kevin has a proven record of innovation in Canadian journalism. He guided the development and success of Global National as the country’s third national newscast and also the first news podcast on Apple’s iTunes. He later created the innovative Kevin Newman Live for CTV\, and was Bell Media’s ‘Digital News Evangelist’. While co-anchoring World News Now at ABC News\, his newscast was the first live streamed on the internet in 1995. Kevin also served for six years on the Board of Directors for the Communitech Hub in Waterloo Ontario which is Canada’s leading start-up incubator. He has created television series and iPad content through his independent company\, NewMan Media Ltd. Kevin’s career in television journalism is unequalled in Canada. He has been host/managing editor of CTV’s Investigative series W5\, host/executive editor of Global National\, co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America\, host of CBC’s\nMidday\, national/international correspondent for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings\, Nightline with Ted Koppel\, and Parliamentary correspondent for CBC The National\, CTV National News and Global News. Along with his son Alex\, Kevin co-authored the best selling memoir All Out.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \n J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nIN-KIND SUPPORTERS \n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”2119″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nASPIRING JOURNALISTS SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2214″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://cjf-fjc.ca/event/postponed-decoding-digital-discontent-kara-swisher-talks-tough-on-todays-digital-media-ecosystem/
LOCATION:Isabel Bader Theatre\, Toronto
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