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SUMMARY:News ‘ForYou’: How TikTok is helping newsrooms reach new audiences
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]TikTok’s immense popularity among Gen Z users and more than one billion global user-base make the app an enticing storytelling tool for news publishers. Many newsrooms are reaching hundreds of thousands of young followers that they previously struggled to engage with off the platform. On February 1\, The Canadian Journalism Foundation welcomes a panel of trailblazing journalists who are using the video-sharing network to bring news content to a whole new generation. They’ll share their insights on TikTok’s use as an effective storytelling tool and how newsrooms can get their audiences to go deeper on and off the app. \nFeatured speakers are journalists Dave Jorgenson\, The Washington Post\, Evy Kwong\, Toronto Star and Sophia Smith Galer\, VICE World News\, in conversation with Elamin Abdelmahmoud\, host of the CBC podcast Pop Chat.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Feb 22\, 2022 | 1 p.m. ET \n– LISTEN TO THE RECORDING \n– WATCH THE RECORDING[/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]Dave Jorgenson is a video producer\, editor and writer for “The Department of Satire” and various scripted series for The Washington Post. While at the Post\, Dave launched the newsroom’s TikTok channel – where he posts short\, newsworthy TikToks twice a day\, five days a week. For his work on TikTok\, he earned two Webby nominations in 2020 and a win in 2021. He won an award from the North American Digital Awards for ‘Best Digital Project to Engage Young and/or Millennial Audiences.’ He also made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in December 2020. He recently wrote a book\, Make A TikTok Every Day\, which includes 365 “prompts” for TikTok. @davejorgenson \nEvelyn ‘Evy’ Kwong is an editor on the Toronto Star’s Audience Team that focuses on platforming and finding new\, diverse audiences and meeting the people where they are. She strategizes on ways to reach and build trust with communities that have been under-platformed\, bring new voices into mainstream media and use new technology to provide everyone with access to information. She is also the editor of the Star’s #InTheirOwnVoices\, a first-person op-ed section on identity\, and host/writer of the Star business series #MillennialMoney focusing on uncovering the financial worries of the younger generation. @EVYSTADIUM \nSophia Smith Galer is an award-winning reporter and author who has pioneered how TikTok can be used for journalism\, bridging the gap between traditional media and Gen Z. She is a Senior News Reporter for VICE World News where she has reported on everything from the anti-vaxxers and incels gaming TikTok’s algorithm to youth washing at COP26 and spiking in the UK. Previously a BBC World Service reporter\, she uncovered the misuse of political ads during the US election\, as well as Donald Trump’s covert campaigning on the app. She has been selected as a TikTok Voice of Change in the UK two years in a row amongst the app’s 100 top UK creators and recently won ‘Innovation of the Year’ at the British Journalism Awards for her TikTok account. Sophia’s first book\, Losing It\, on debunking the sex misinformation on and offline that ruins lives\, will be published by Harper Collins in April 2022. @sophiasgaler[/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 culture writer for BuzzFeed News and host of CBC’s pop culture show Pop Chat. He was a founding co-host of the CBC Politics podcast Party Lines\, and he is a contributor to The National’s At Issue panel. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone\, The Globe and Mail\, and others. When he gets a chance\, he writes bad tweets. @elamin88[/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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SUMMARY:Reporting on the Ground in Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Only days after the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan last August\, the world watched in awe as the Taliban swiftly retook control. Desperate and visceral images of Afghans clinging to evacuation planes\, lifting children over Kabul airport’s barbed wire fences\, and stories of crisis dominated news coverage for weeks. On February 22\, the CJF welcomes a panel of storytellers who were there before and during the takeover\, to share their insights into the challenges\, safety issues and nuances of covering this humanitarian crisis. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Feb 22\, 2022 | 1 p.m. ET\n– LISTEN to the event\n– WATCH the event[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Featured speakers are Global News journalists Stewart Bell and Jeff Semple\, who captured moments of loss and sacrifice after the Taliban had swept to power; VICE World News journalist Hind Hassan\, who spoke with Taliban leaders in advance of the takeover; and visual storyteller Kiana Hayeri\, who captured the transition through powerful photographs. Leading this discussion is Nil Köksal\, host of CBC’s World Report and former foreign correspondent based in Istanbul\, Turkey.[/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]Stewart Bell is a national online investigative journalist at Global News. He is the author of three non-fiction books\, most recently Bayou of Pigs\, about a far-right coup plot in the Caribbean. In 2018\, he won an RTDNA award for investigative journalism. His magazine article about child soldiers\, “Guerrilla Girls\,” was awarded the Amnesty International prize. He won the South Asian Journalists Association award for his coverage of the Sri Lankan civil war\, and his Saturday Night article “The Terrorist Next Door” was a finalist for the National Magazine Award and was made into a television movie. He received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his writing on terrorism. @StewGlobal \nHind Hassan is an award-winning international correspondent for VICE News covering conflicts\, humanitarian crises and the biggest developing stories from around the world. Since joining VICE News\, Hassan has covered wars and uprisings across the globe including the post-ISIS legacy in Syria\, Lebanon’s blast demonstrations and Iraq’s anti-corruption protests where her team witnessed and documented human rights abuses. Hassan embedded with the Taliban in Afghanistan just months before the group’s takeover of Kabul and travelled to the front line of the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Her team became the first journalists to independently confirm the use of cluster munitions against civilians in Azerbaijan. She was also on the ground in Jerusalem and Gaza ahead of the military offensive on the Strip. Prior to joining VICE News\, Hassan worked as a reporter for Sky News. Hassan is based in London. @HindHassanNews \nKiana Hayeri is an Iranian-Canadian photographer based in Kabul\, Afghanistan. She is a Senior TED Fellow and a regular contributor to The New York Times and National Geographic. In 2020\, she received the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award and was named the 6th recipient of the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting. In 2021\, Kiana received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for her photographic series “Where Prison is Kind of a Freedom\,” documenting the lives of Afghan women in Herat Prison. @kianahayeri \nJeff Semple is a Senior Correspondent and Video Journalist with Global National News based in Toronto. He has reported from more than 30 countries across five continents\, covering terrorist attacks in Europe\, the refugee crisis in the Middle East and the Olympic Games in Russia\, Brazil and South Korea. Jeff has reported from the frontlines of the fight against ISIS in Iraq\, the UN’s deadliest peacekeeping mission in Mali\, and was recently deployed to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Jeff’s reports have been recognised by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television\, the Radio Television Digital News Association\, the Canadian Medical Association\, the Canadian Online Publishing Awards and Apple Podcasts. Jeff is also the host of the ‘Rising’ podcast series\, which was the #1 podcast in Canada during its first season in 2019. @JeffSempleGN[/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]Stewart Bell is a national online investigative journalist at Global News. He is the author of three non-fiction books\, most recently Bayou of Pigs\, about a far-right coup plot in the Caribbean. In 2018\, he won an RTDNA award for investigative journalism. His magazine article about child soldiers\, “Guerrilla Girls\,” was awarded the Amnesty International prize. He won the South Asian Journalists Association award for his coverage of the Sri Lankan civil war\, and his Saturday Night article “The Terrorist Next Door” was a finalist for the National Magazine Award and was made into a television movie. He received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his writing on terrorism. @StewGlobal \nHind Hassan is an award-winning international correspondent for VICE News covering conflicts\, humanitarian crises and the biggest developing stories from around the world. Since joining VICE News\, Hassan has covered wars and uprisings across the globe including the post-ISIS legacy in Syria\, Lebanon’s blast demonstrations and Iraq’s anti-corruption protests where her team witnessed and documented human rights abuses. Hassan embedded with the Taliban in Afghanistan just months before the group’s takeover of Kabul and travelled to the front line of the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Her team became the first journalists to independently confirm the use of cluster munitions against civilians in Azerbaijan. She was also on the ground in Jerusalem and Gaza ahead of the military offensive on the Strip. Prior to joining VICE News\, Hassan worked as a reporter for Sky News. Hassan is based in London. @HindHassanNews \nKiana Hayeri is an Iranian-Canadian photographer based in Kabul\, Afghanistan. She is a Senior TED Fellow and a regular contributor to The New York Times and National Geographic. In 2020\, she received the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award and was named the 6th recipient of the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting. In 2021\, Kiana received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for her photographic series “Where Prison is Kind of a Freedom\,” documenting the lives of Afghan women in Herat Prison. @kianahayeri \nJeff Semple is a Senior Correspondent and Video Journalist with Global National News based in Toronto. He has reported from more than 30 countries across five continents\, covering terrorist attacks in Europe\, the refugee crisis in the Middle East and the Olympic Games in Russia\, Brazil and South Korea. Jeff has reported from the frontlines of the fight against ISIS in Iraq\, the UN’s deadliest peacekeeping mission in Mali\, and was recently deployed to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Jeff’s reports have been recognised by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television\, the Radio Television Digital News Association\, the Canadian Medical Association\, the Canadian Online Publishing Awards and Apple Podcasts. Jeff is also the host of the ‘Rising’ podcast series\, which was the #1 podcast in Canada during its first season in 2019. @JeffSempleGN[/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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