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SUMMARY:Covering History's Most Important Election
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1492008828909{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]In a time of deepening political polarization\, with audiences increasingly gravitating toward  their preferred news outlets\, how can journalists effectively cover what may be one of the most crucial elections in history? What strategies have worked in the past\, and what new approaches can journalists and their newsrooms adopt? This panel examined the unique challenges faced by journalists covering the 2024 U.S. presidential election\, the tough conversations occurring within the media industry\, and the opportunities for reporters and news organizations to evolve their political coverage\, fulfill their responsibilities within democracy and restore public trust. \nOn Wednesday\, September 18\, Ali Velshi\, Chief Correspondent at MSNBC and host of Velshi\, Kadia Goba\, Politics reporter\, Semafor and Jackson Proskow\, Washington Bureau Chief\, Global News\, joined in conversation with moderator Angela Murphy\, Foreign Editor\, The Globe and Mail\, for a 60-minute online conversation about this unprecedented election and its coverage.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/XH_V_bbvOdU?feature=shared” css=””] ABOUT THE SPEAKERS [vc_column_text css=””] \nKadia Goba\nKadia Goba covers Congress\, Kamala Harris and the 2024 presidential race at Semafor. She previously worked for BuzzFeed News covering national politics with a focus on the Republican Party. Before that she covered congressional Democrats for Axios. Goba hails from Brooklyn\, New York where she covered local politics before moving to Washington D.C. \nJackson Proskow\nJackson Proskow brings his lifelong passion for news and current affairs to Global National as Washington Bureau Chief. \nHis reporting career has taken him across Canada\, the United States and around the world. He has covered several American presidential elections\, countless hurricanes\, mass shootings\, and other major news events. He reported from earthquake-devastated Turkey in 2023\, and from Nepal in 2015\, as well as covering the 2011 Royal Wedding in London. His reporting has been profiled in other media outlets including CNN\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, BBC News and Esquire magazine. \nPrior to joining Global National in 2014\, Jackson was on the front lines of Toronto’s biggest news stories. Covering the City Hall beat\, he asked Mayor Rob Ford the tough question that led to his confession of having used crack cocaine\, sparking an international media frenzy. \nJackson entered the broadcast industry while still in high school\, reporting for Shaw TV Calgary. In 2004\, he graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelors degree in Communication Studies and later earned a diploma in Broadcast Journalism\, with Honours\, from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). \nAfter graduating\, Jackson joined Global Lethbridge as a reporter and weekend anchor. He then made the jump to Ontario in 2005\, moving to CHCH-TV in Hamilton as a reporter and videographer\, later joining the Global Toronto team in 2006. \nJackson’s work has been honoured with several major awards\, including the RTDNA Edward R. Murrow award for outstanding investigative journalism for the series Gardiner Expressway\, Trouble Overhead. The series also earned Jackson and the Global News team the RTDNA Dan McArthur Award and Digital Media Award. \nJackson lives in Washington\, D.C.\, and loves to travel\, run\, and explore Washington’s restaurant scene. \nAli Velshi\nAli Velshi is an award winning journalist\, host of “Velshi” and Chief Correspondent for MSNBC\, and a weekly economics contributor to NPR’s “Here And Now.” He has covered multiple U.S. Midterm and Presidential elections and significant news stories around the globe\, including extensive reporting from Israel during the war with Israel and Hamas\, Ukraine and across Central and Eastern Europe during the Russian invasion\, the Syrian refugee crisis from Turkey and Jordan\, and the Iran Nuclear Deal in Tehran. He hosts the “Velshi Banned Book Club” on MSNBC\, and the “Velshi Banned Book Club” podcast. Velshi is known for his immersive on-the-ground reporting and his interactive discussions with small groups\, which form part of his ongoing series\, Velshi Across America. He previously worked as an anchor and correspondent for Al Jazeera America and CNN. He has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards\, and is the recipient of two National Headliner Awards and a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award.  \nAbout Our Moderator\nAngela Murphy\nAngela Murphy\, the Globe’s Foreign Editor\, took on this role about six months after Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States. Before that she was Toronto editor during the tumultuous years of Rob Ford’s mayoralty and led the Globe’s long-term project on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. 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