• Breaking Through the Noise: Reinventing Broadcast News

    Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto

    As election coverage transitioned into post-election analysis, we brought together news leaders from CBC, CTV, Global, and Rogers to explore how broadcast journalism is evolving in our fragmented media landscape. In an era where traditional TV competes with streaming, podcasts, and social media, how are networks maintaining trust while adapting to new audience habits? What […]

  • Pivot to Video 2.0: Direct-to-Platform News Creators

    Virtual Event

    The media landscape is changing—again. Join us for a critical conversation with leading straight-to-platform video storytellers who are redefining how news reaches audiences in the digital age. Dive into the future of news: Where are video strategies succeeding? Where are they failing? And how do you turn views into revenue when you're going direct to […]

  • Diversity at the Crossroads: Protecting Inclusive Journalism in Canada

    Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto

    As anti-diversity movements gain momentum in the United States, Canadian journalism stands at a critical juncture. The Canadian Journalism Foundation, in partnership with Informed Perspectives, presented a timely discussion examining whether these concerning trends could undermine the representation of women, Indigenous, Black and other racialized journalists in our newsrooms and threaten the accurate portrayal of […]

  • The New Age of Digital Deception: What\’s Changed and How to Fight Back

    Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West

    The Canadian Journalism Foundation in partnership with MediaSmarts presented a free Media Literacy Week J-Talks event. Renowned digital media expert Craig Silverman mapped this new landscape of digital deception and revealed practical defence strategies for journalists and citizens. The talk explored how modern verification tools like Indicator fit into today's newsroom toolkit, and investigative techniques […]

  • We Survived the Night – Book Launch

    Massey College 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Event Video Julian Brave NoiseCat’s childhood was rich with culture and contradictions. When his Secwépemc and St’at’imc father, an artist haunted by a turbulent past, abandoned the family, he and his non-Native mother were embraced by the urban Native community in Oakland, California, as well as by family on the Canim Lake Indian Reserve in […]

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  • The AI Newsroom Revolution: Building Tomorrow’s Journalism Today

    Virtual Event

    Journalism is being rebuilt in real time,  and AI is the most powerful tool in the construction kit. Newsrooms are using AI to analyze millions of documents overnight, uncover patterns human eyes would miss, and produce local election results in dozens of languages simultaneously. Small outlets are suddenly competing with legacy media. Investigative teams are […]

  • Fixing the Future: Looking Backward and Forward at the Evolution of Media & Democracy

    Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West

    Richard Gingras, former global VP of News at Google and globally respected media thinker In conversation with: Angela Pacienza, Executive Editor, Globe and Mail The CJF was pleased to host a timely and candid conversation with Richard Gingras, former VP of Google News and one of the most influential thinkers at the intersection of media, technology […]

  • Covering the Conflagration: Journalism on the Wildfire Frontiers

    Virtual Event

    Sponsored by Intact Wildfires are becoming not only annual events but also unmistakable signs of the broader climate emergency—scorching forests, forcing evacuations, disrupting ecosystems, and crossing borders. Covering the Conflagration brought together journalists who report directly from these frontlines, capturing both the immediate dangers and the longer-term consequences of fire. Jesse Winter, Visual Journalist and […]

  • A View from Washington with David Paterson

    Massey College 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    The Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Journalism and Democracy: View From series, brings prominent figures together with Canadian journalists. On April 22, David Paterson, Ontario’s Representative in Washington DC joined Rob Benzie, Toronto Star Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, to share A View From Washington. The talk touched on Paterson’s experience navigating Canada-US relations from negotiating CUSMA to […]

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