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SUMMARY:Beyond "Police Say": Exploring the Media’s Reliance on Official Accounts
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The death of George Floyd focused the world’s attention on police brutality—and the problematic practice of relying on official accounts of events. But reporters have also long maintained police sources who provide information for their crime coverage. How has Floyd’s death changed reporting on police and their activities?Featured speakers Karen Attiah\, columnist with The Washington Post\, Wendy Gillis\, crime and police reporter for the Toronto Star\, and Adrian Harewood\, host of CBC News Ottawa at 6\, will be in conversation with Anna Maria Tremonti\, host of the CBC podcast More. \nOct. 14\, 1 p.m. E.T. \n– WATCH THE SHOW \n– LISTEN TO THE SHOW[/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]Karen Attiah is a columnist for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2014 as a digital producer in the Opinions section. Attiah often writes on issues relating to race\, gender and international politics\, with a special interest in Africa. Previously\, she reported as a freelancer for the Associated Press while based in the Caribbean. Attiah was the winner of the 2019 George Polk Award and was the 2019 Journalist of the Year from the National Association of Black Journalists. @KarenAttiah \nWendy Gillis is the longtime crime and police reporter for the Toronto Star. Her beat coverage on police accountability and justice issues has earned her journalism awards and nominations\, including being named the 2021 co-recipient of the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Landsberg Award for coverage of violence against women. Wendy has nominated for multiple National Newspaper Awards\, including in 2020 for an investigation into police use of force and in 2018 as part of a team for the Star’s coverage of the Yonge St. van attack. Wendy led a team nominated for the 2016 Governor General’s Michener Award for coverage of Ontario police watchdog\, the Special Investigations Unit\, and was also part of a group nominated for a Canadian Hillman prize for the Star’s work on the police practice of carding. In 2017\, she was awarded a residency at the Banff Centre’s Literary Journalism program\, where she produced “Backfire\,” a long feature investigation into an Ontario police officer involved in three on-duty fatalities. @wendygillis \nAdrian Harewood is the host of CBC News Ottawa at 6. Harewood is an associate professor at the Carleton University School of Journalism. He has been a guest host on national CBC programs such as As it Happens\, Sounds Like Canada and The Current. Before coming to television\, Harewood was the host of All In A Day on CBC Radio One in Ottawa. @CBCAdrianH[/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]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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \nEXCLUSIVE J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2214″ alignment=”center”][/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=”2117″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2119″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:State of Emergency: Reporting on Solutions to Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From record-breaking heatwaves to prolonged droughts to migration crises and even production declines\, our changing climate impacts all aspects of society. \nWhat role can journalists play in ensuring that climate reporting doesn’t only cover “what is” but “what can be”? What role can concrete solutions-based coverage play in responding to this crisis? In the lead-up to COP26 on October 31\, this panel will explore the importance of climate solutions journalism in sharing valuable knowledge and lessons learned from academics\, news leaders\, and local communities. \nFeatured speakers Jonathan Watts\, climate editor at The Guardian\, Linda Solomon Wood\, CEO and editor-in-chief at Canada’s National Observer\, Mike De Souza\, Managing Editor at The Narwhal\, Laura Lynch\, host of CBC’s What on Earth\, and Blair Feltmate\, climatologist and professor at the University of Waterloo\, will be in conversation with Fatima Syed\, journalist at The Narwhal. \nOct. 26\, 1 p.m. ET \n– WATCH THE SHOW  \n– LISTEN TO THE SHOW[/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]Mike De Souza is an award-winning investigative journalist\, specializing in covering environmental issues and the energy industry. He has also covered politics for more than two decades. A Montreal native\, Mike has worked as a broadcast and print journalist in his hometown\, as well as the National Assembly in Quebec City\, Parliament Hill in Ottawa\, Toronto and Calgary. Along the way\, he has worked for Global News\, Reuters\, Postmedia\, The Montreal Gazette\, CJAD\, CTV and National Observer. @mikedesouza \nBlair Feltmate is the Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation\, University of Waterloo. He serves on several advisory boards and councils\, including the federal National Adaption Strategy board and the Ontario provincial Climate Advisory Board\, Minister of Environment. Dr. Feltmate is also Chair of the Adaptation Council\, Canadian Institute for Climate Choices\, and Expert Member of the International ISO Strategic Advisory Group\, ESG. \nLaura Lynch is an award-winning journalist and host at CBC. In 2020\, Laura was part of the team that created the weekly radio program What on Earth\, focusing on climate change solutions. In 2021\, the program won the inaugural Canadian Journalism Foundation award for its work. Throughout her career\, she has reported from across Canada and around the world\, covering everything from gun control to abortion to international trade to political assassinations and civil war. @lauralynchcbc \nLinda Solomon Wood is a CEO and editor-in-chief who has\, for more than a decade\, been a leader in the digital re-invention of Canadian media and has helped to drive the national conversation on the environment\, politics\, and climate change. She founded Canada’s National Observer in 2015 and since has worked to establish a national publication that is rigorous about accuracy and that adheres to the highest standard of ethics. Coverage of the race against climate change at the intersection of politics\, technology and culture is at the heart of CNO’s mission and has been called essential by climate leaders such as David Suzuki\, Maude Barlow and Bill McKibben. @Linda_Solomon \nJonathan Watts is global environment editor of the Guardian and a founder of the Rainforest Journalism Fund. Working across a range of text\, photographic\, video and podcast media\, he has previously served as the paper’s correspondent in Japan (1996-2003)\, China (2003-2012) and Brazil (2012-2017). Watts is the author of the eco-travelogue When a Billion Chinese Jump and helped to edit the recently released “Standing up for a Sustainable World.” Four years ago\, he and group of Brazil-based journalists founded the Rainforest Journalism Fund\, which uses a $5.5million dollar donation from the Norwegian government to support reporting trips in the world’s major tropical forests. @jonathanwatts[/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]Fatima Syed is a Mississauga-based journalist with The Narwhal and host of The Backbench podcast. She has worked for The Walrus\, the Toronto Star\, The Logic\, and National Observer\, where she established the outlet’s Queen’s Park bureau\, with an emphasis on coverage of environmental and energy policy. She is a National Magazine Award nominee\, a Digital Publishing Award winner\, and has contributed chapters to two anthologies published by Coach House Books—Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity and House Divided. She is also the vice-president of the Canadian Association of Journalists. @fatimabsyed[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \nEXCLUSIVE J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2113″ alignment=”center”][/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=”2117″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2119″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Big Voices
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Content Warning: The Big Voices J-Talk will explore discussion points that may be graphic or sensitive to some audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]At a time when a range of voices and perspectives are available across multiple platforms\, and a choice word or angle can be a landmine—setting off a barrage of online hate—what does it take to be a columnist and how has the role evolved in a fraught social media environment where attacks inordinately target women and racialized journalists? \nFeatured speakers are columnists Daphne Bramham\, Vancouver Sun\, Shree Paradkar\, Toronto Star and Elizabeth Renzetti\, The Globe and Mail\, in conversation with Anna Maria Tremonti\, host of the CBC podcast More.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Oct. 28\, 1 p.m.\, E.T. \n– WATCH THE SHOW\n– LISTEN TO THE SHOW [/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]Daphne Bramham is a Vancouver-based journalist and author who has written extensively about children’s rights\, women’s rights and animal rights. She has covered two Olympics\, two elections in India\, the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997 and too many elections in Canada to count. A columnist for the Vancouver Sun since 2000\, she was named Commentator of the Year by the Jack Webster Foundation in 2019\, an award she had won previously. She has also received a National Award for column writing. She is a past recipient of the Rosemary Brown Award for women and in 2011 was named Champion of Child and Youth rights by the BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition. Her book\, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect\, was published in 2008 and was a finalist for three national\, non-fiction book awards. @bramham_daphne \nShree Paradkar is a Toronto Star columnist who writes on anti-oppression and social justice issues. She is also the Star’s – and Canada’s – first internal ombud\, a position created to develop an anti-racist newsroom. She is the 2018-2019 recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and winner of two Amnesty Awards for Human Rights reporting. Earlier this year Shree won the Racial Justice in Media award by the Urban Alliance of Race Relations. Shree is the author of Betrayed: My cousin’s wrongful conviction for the murder of her daughter\, Aarushi\, and has been a journalist in Bangalore\, Mumbai\, Singapore and Toronto. @ShreeParadkar \nElizabeth Renzetti is a Canadian journalist and author. Her column runs weekly in the Globe and Mail\, where she is also a feature writer. She is the author of two books\, the essay collection Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls and the novel Based on a True Story. She has reported from London\, Los Angeles and Berlin and was also the Globe and Mail’s Arts and Books editor. In 2020 she won the Landsberg Award for her reporting on gender equality. @lizrenzetti[/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]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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \nEXCLUSIVE J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2141″ alignment=”center”][/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=”2117″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”2119″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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