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SUMMARY:Going Local or Going Niche: New News Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]– View the photos\n– Watch the livestream\n– Listen to the podcast  \nWhere some see pitfalls in the media business\, others see opportunity. So it is with Village Media\, which is expanding its hyper local Ontario online news sites across smaller cities during a general decline in community newspapers. So it is\, too\, with media startup The Logic\, a subscription news site focused on Canada’s innovation economy — and whose founder believes the future of local news may lie in more creative uses of technology. Join us for this overview of the media landscape and how both established and new players are helping to reshape it.\nJoin speakers Jeff Elgie\, CEO of Village Media; April Lindgren\, Velma Rogers Research Chair and principal investigator for the Local News Research Project at the Ryerson School of Journalism; and David Skok\, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Logic\, in a conversation led by Sonya Fatah\, editor-in-chief of J-Source and assistant journalism professor at Ryerson University. \nThursday\, October 4\nDoors open 6:00pm  |  Discussion 6:30pm  |  Reception 8:00pm\nGoogle Toronto\n111 Richmond Street West\, 9th Floor Toronto\nView map[/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] \n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Elgie is CEO of Village Media. He is a born and raised entrepreneur. From the age of 15 he has founded\, owned and operated businesses in the Information Technology and Digital Communications sectors. In 2013\, he retired as the founder and CEO of Lucidia Ltd.\, the largest Integrated Marketing Communications agency in Northern Ontario and moved on to become the CEO and majority shareholder of Village Media. Jeff has been recognized locally\, regionally and provincially with a wide range of business and entrepreneurship awards. @JeffElgie \n  \n.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApril Lindgren is the Velma Rogers Research Chair and principal investigator for the Local News Research Project at the Ryerson School of Journalism. Her current research explores local news poverty\, a term she uses to describe situations where the critical information needs of communities are not being addressed by local media. Working with colleagues from the University of British Columbia and Royal Roads University\, Prof. Lindgren has led a project that documents major differences in the availability of local news across Canada and spearheaded the creation of The Local News Map\, an online crowd-sourced tool that allows members of the public to add markers highlighting changes to local news media. @aprilatryerson\n\n\n.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Skok is a strategist\, technologist\, journalist\, editor and a leading thinker on digital transformation in media. He is the CEO & Editor-in-Chief of The Logic\, a subscription news site focused on the innovation economy. Prior to founding The Logic\, he was the associate editor and head of editorial strategy at The Toronto Star\, managing editor and vice-president of digital for the Boston Globe\, and the co-creator and director of digital for Global News. He is the co-author of ‘Breaking News: Mastering the Art of Disruptive Innovation in Journalism\,” with Harvard Business School professor\, Clayton M. Christensen. @dskok\n\n\n\n\n\n.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1492008828909{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column] ABOUT THE MODERATOR [vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\nSonya Fatah is the editor-in-chief of J-Source and an assistant professor at the Ryerson School of Journalism at Ryerson University where she co-instructs the courses that produce the Ryerson Review of Journalism and the Ryersonian. She has 15 years of international reporting experience. She has reported in Canada\, Pakistan\, India and South Africa. Her work has appeared in Maclean’s\, the Globe and Mail\, the Toronto Star\, The Walrus\, Columbia Journalism Review and GlobalPost.  @sonyafatah[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1645637802156{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nJ-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nSPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”2206″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nIN-KIND SUPPORTER \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2119″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://cjf-fjc.ca/event/going-local-or-going-niche-new-news-opportunities/
LOCATION:Google\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:2018
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SUMMARY:State of Media: Survival Strategies in the Age of Misinformation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]– Watch the video\n– Watch the CPAC broadcast on Public Record\n– View the photos\n– Listen to the podcast  \nJournalists and media organizations around the world are under siege from misinformation fed by social media and an antagonistic U.S. president. How should journalism and democracy respond to this dual challenge? How can journalists ensure truth overrides false information? How should they respond to public attacks and historic levels of mistrust? At the same time\, many media are seeking sustainable business models and some are asking: can blockchain technology provide security for the future of journalism? \nJoin a wide-ranging conversation on these issues with prominent journalism thought leaders: Jeff Jarvis\, director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York; Jay Rosen\, associate journalism professor at New York University; and Vivian Schiller\, CEO of the Civil Foundation\, which makes philanthropic grants in support of journalism and upholds the ethics of Civil\, a blockchain-based platform that supports a global community of quality newsrooms. This conversation will be moderated by Mathew Ingram\, chief digital writer with the Columbia Journalism Review. \nWednesday\, October 17\nDoors open 6:00pm  |   Discussion 6:30pm  | Reception 8:00pm  TMX Broadcast Centre\, The Exchange Tower 130 King St. W.\, Toronto View map[/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]Jeff Jarvis is the Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism and Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is a national leader in the development of online news\, blogging\, the investigation of new business models for news\, and the teaching of entrepreneurial journalism. He writes an influential media blog\, Buzzmachine.com. He is author off four books\, including Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News (CUNY Journalism Press\, 2014). Prior to joining the Newmark J-School\, Jarvis was president of Advance.net\, the online arm of Advance Publications\, which includes Condé Nast magazines and newspapers across America. He was the creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine and has worked as a columnist\, associate publisher\, editor\, and writer for a number of publications. He was named one of the 100 most influential media leaders by the World Economic Forum at Davos. @jeffjarvis \nJay Rosen has been teaching journalism at New York University since 1986. From 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the program. Rosen is the author of PressThink\, a blog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org)\, which he introduced in 2003. He is the author What Are Journalists For? (Yale University Press) about the rise of the civic journalism movement during the pre-internet era. In 2008 he was the co-publisher\, with Arianna Huffington\, of OffTheBus.net\, which allowed anyone who was interested to sign up and contribute to campaign coverage for the Huffington Post. He is currently serving as “ambassador” to the American market for the Dutch site\, De Correspondent as it looks to expand to the U.S. In 2017 he became director of the Membership Puzzle Project\, funded by the Knight Foundation and Democracy Fund. It studies membership models for sustainability in news. Rosen is also an active press critic with a focus on problems in the coverage of politics. @jayrosen_nyu \nVivian Schiller is a longtime executive at the intersection of journalism\, media and technology. She is the CEO of the Civil Foundation\, which makes philanthropic grants in support of sustainable journalism\, and helps uphold the journalism ethics and standards of Civil\, the decentralized marketplace for sustainable journalism. Prior to joining Civil\, Vivian held a number of executive roles in the media industry. She was the Global Chair of News at Twitter. In this role\, she led the company’s strategy for news and partnership with journalism organizations and the news publishing ecosystem. Before that Vivian held leadership roles at NBC News\, NPR\, NYTimes.com\, Discovery Times Channel and CNN Productions. Schiller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a Director of the Scott Trust\, which owns The Guardian. @vivian[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1492008828909{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column] ABOUT THE MODERATOR [vc_column_text]Mathew Ingram is Columbia Journalism Review‘s chief digital writer. Previously\, he was a senior writer with Fortune magazine. He has written about the intersection between media and technology since the earliest days of the commercial internet. His writing has been published in The Washington Post and the Financial Times as well as Reuters and Bloomberg. @mathewi[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCJF J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \nIN-KIND SUPPORTERS \n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2119″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2117″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]*Program subject to change[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://cjf-fjc.ca/event/state-of-media-survival-strategies-in-the-age-of-misinformation/
LOCATION:TMX Broadcast Centre\, The Exchange Tower\, 130 King St. W.
CATEGORIES:2018
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SUMMARY:A Citizen's Guide to Real News: Why Trusted Local News Matters
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In partnership with Western University \nEnough about fake news. What about the real news? What do citizens of our communities need to know about news that matters? In the midst of the dual crises now challenging journalism and the news industry- dwindling trust and decimated local newsrooms struggling to cover their communities – a special Western University Homecoming speaker’s session and panel examines why trusted news matters to the citizens of our democracy. \nKathy English\, public editor of the Toronto Star and Western’s Faculty of Information & Media Studies’ winter 2018 Asper Teaching Fellow\, is joined by Ryerson University professor April Lindgren\, the Velma Rogers Research Chair and principal investigator for the Local News Research Project and special guest journalist and writer\, Joshua Benton\, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University\, which he founded in 2008. \nFollowing their talks about trust and local news\, FIMS instructor Paul Benedetti moderates a panel of local news journalists who cover the London area community about the challenges of covering local news and building trust with their audiences. \nThis event is sponsored by FIMS and the Asper Teaching Fellowship. \nPlease register by October 15\, 2018\nSaturday\, October 20\nFIMS Nursing Building (FNB) Western University London 1pm-3pm\nView map \nFor full details of the program and to register for the event: \nREGISTER HERE[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://cjf-fjc.ca/event/a-citizens-guite-to-real-news-why-trusted-local-news-matters/
LOCATION:Western University\, London
CATEGORIES:2018
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