BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Canadian Journalism Foundation - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cjf-fjc.ca
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Canadian Journalism Foundation
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20170101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191002T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191002T183000
DTSTAMP:20260525T064632
CREATED:20191002T195928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220222T212124Z
UID:15091-1570041000-1570041000@cjf-fjc.ca
SUMMARY:Doubt It? Check It. Challenge It. Combatting Misinformation: Strategies by Canada’s News Leaders and Tools for Digital Citizens
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]– View the photos\n– Watch the livestream\n– Listen to the podcast \n \n  \nWith the federal election approaching\, how can we work together to spot and stop the spread of misinformation and outright lies\, so voters can make informed decisions at the polls?\nIn a special pre-election luncheon event\, news leaders from across Canada’s major media will talk about the steps they are taking to combat ‘fake news’. And\, we’ll share the smart strategies Canadians can adopt to verify information with the launch of CJF’s Doubt It? campaign\, a NewsWise project. \nAllan Gregg\, a principal with Earnscliffe Strategy Group\, moderates this discussion featuring:\n•    Kenton Boston\, vice-president\, national and network news\, Global News\n•    Dennis Choquette\, head of enterprise\, The Globe and Mail\n•    Wendy Freeman\, president\, CTV News\n•    Anthony Furey\, national columnist and national comment editor\, Sun/Postmedia\n•    Irene Gentle\, editor\, Toronto Star\n•    Jennifer McGuire\, general manager and editor-in-chief\, CBC News\n•    Julie Traves\, deputy editor\, National Post\n\nWednesday\, October 2\, 2019\n12:30pm Registration and buffet lunch | 1:00pm Discussion | 2:30pm Event ends\nGoogle Toronto\n111 Richmond Street West\, 9th Floor Toronto\nView map[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15094″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1492008828909{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column] ABOUT THE SPEAKERS [vc_column_text]Kenton Boston is an award-winning journalist whose career spans three decades in print\, radio\, digital and television. Boston is currently the Vice President of National and Network News for Global Television news channels\, online and radio. Previously\, Boston was the Vice President of News and Information for Western Canada covering six news\, talk and traffic radio stations\, eight television stations and BC1. Prior to joining Global\, Boston worked at CTV for ten years\, holding a variety of positions including that of senior producer for the news channel and the network’s flagship morning show\, Canada AM. Boston started his broadcast journalism career in radio at CKO Radio in Toronto. @KentonBoston \nWendy Freeman is President of CTV News. Since being named President of CTV News in 2010\, Freeman has been responsible for news\, information and current events programming\, including CTV National News\, CTV News Channel\, BNN\, and CP24. Freeman presides over all Bell Media news editorial content and newsgathering efforts for television and digital\, and oversees the newsrooms’ day-to-day operations. Previously\, Freeman held a variety of senior management positions with CTV News. Prior to joining the company\, Freeman worked at WPIX-TV in New York and WXYZ-TV in Detroit\, as well as Citytv in Toronto\, where she began her television career. @WendyFreeman \nAnthony Furey is a national columnist and the national comment editor for the Sun papers\, where he has worked since 2010. He’s also a host on SiriusXM radio. He’s appeared on TV and radio programs across Canada and the world\, including BBC and Fox News Channel\, and his writing has been featured in Time\, NY Daily News\, Literary Review of Canada and more. He studied philosophy\, history and English at the University of Toronto.. @anthonyfurey \nIrene Gentle is the editor of the Toronto Star. Gentle is the first female editor in the Star’s 127-year history. As editor\, she is responsible for all the coverage in the print and digital editions\, as well as in charge of overall editorial strategic planning. She joined the Toronto Star in 2011 as Business Editor. In 2012\, she was appointed Assistant Managing Editor and City Editor and\, in 2016\, named Managing Editor. Before joining the Star\, she held a series of progressive roles at The Hamilton Spectator\, which she joined in 2005\, serving as Assignment Editor\, Business Editor\, City Editor and finally as News Editor. @IreneGentle \nJennifer McGuire has been the General Manager and Editor in Chief of CBC News since 2009\, which makes her the longest serving Editor in Chief of CBC News. McGuire led the digital transformation of CBC News\, which has seen it become a\ndominant digital player. McGuire is chief journalist and is responsible for: CBC News Network\, all news programming on CBC Television and Radio; CBCNews.ca; news podcasts such as Front Burner and Finding Cleo\, CBC News on Snapchat and all other mobile and digital applications of CBC News. Previously\, she was the Executive Director of CBC Radio. Her media career began on the CBC Radio morning show in Ottawa. @jmcguirecbc \nDennis Choquette heads The Globe and Mail’s enterprise desk\, where he oversees investigations and special projects. Previously\, he was The Globe’s national editor\, leading a team of editors and reporters producing domestic news coverage. His teams have won multiple awards for reporting on a broad range of topics\, including sexual assault\, Vancouver real estate\, soldier suicides\, political corruption and solitary confinement. \nJulie Traves is deputy editor of the National Post. Her role includes editorial strategy\, newsroom management and oversight of print and digital content. Prior to joining Postmedia in 2014\, Traves spent 10 years at The Globe and Mail\, where she was a senior leader on sections such as Focus\, Arts and Travel. She has also worked in marketing and communications for the publishing industry\, including Penguin Books Canada and The Word On The Street.  @Jrtraves[/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] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllan Gregg is a principal with Earnscliffe. Gregg is among Canada’s most recognized and respected researchers\, strategists and social commentators. He has played a central role in dozens of campaigns over the last thirty years. His unique talent is to develop research-based strategies and then translate them into all aspects of campaign management – from policy and speeches to media relations; from communications and advertising to targeted grassroots campiagns.  He founded Decima Research in 1979\, co-founded the Strategic Counsel in 1995 and was the Chair of Harris-Decima from 2007 to 2014. From 1993 to 2013 he hosted the TVO talk show Allan Gregg in Conversation with…\, and for over a decade was a regular participant on CBC’s “At Issue” panel. @allangregg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \n J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \nFUNDING FOR NEWSWISE PROVIDED BY \n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”2114″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://cjf-fjc.ca/event/doubt-it-check-it-challenge-it-combatting-misinformation-strategies-by-canadas-news-leaders-and-tools-for-digital-citizens/
LOCATION:Google\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:2019
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cjf-fjc.ca/wp-content/uploads/DoubtIt_postevent_0.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181004T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181004T183000
DTSTAMP:20260525T064632
CREATED:20181004T153849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T173901Z
UID:15214-1538677800-1538677800@cjf-fjc.ca
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cjf-fjc.ca/wp-content/uploads/9-2018.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180502T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180502T190000
DTSTAMP:20260525T064632
CREATED:20180502T153034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T183632Z
UID:15202-1525285800-1525287600@cjf-fjc.ca
SUMMARY:Building Trust in Media
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]– Watch the livestream\n– View the photos\n– Listen to the podcast\n– View the event on CPAC\n– Read the J-Source liveblog \nIn an age of misinformation\, disinformation\, AI and media manipulation\, how can news organizations and platforms like Google build trust with audiences? Join our speakers: Richard Gingras\, vice-president of news at Google\, and Craig Silverman\, media editor with BuzzFeed News; Hossein Derakhshan is an Iranian-Canadian writer and researcher on a joint Harvard Shorenstein and MIT Media Lab fellowship who recently co-authored the report Information Disorder\, commissioned by the Council of Europe; and moderator Anna Maria Tremonti\, host of CBC Radio One’s The Current. \nWednesday\, May 2\nDoors open 6:00pm  |  Discussion 6:30pm  |  Reception 8:00pm Google Toronto 111 Richmond Street West\, 9th Floor[/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\nRichard Gingras is Vice President of News at Google. In that role he guides Google’s strategies relating to the media ecosystem and oversees many of Google’s news and media related products. Richard was a key instigator of the recently-announced Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project\, an effort to make Web content instantaneous and in doing so\, preserve the vitality\, utility\, and openness of the Worldwide Web. He also helped found the Trust Project\, a global effort within the journalism community to insure that high quality journalism is recognized for the credibility it deserves. @richardgingras[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\nCraig Silverman is media editor for BuzzFeed News. Prior to this role\, he was the editor of BuzzFeed Canada\, which launched in 2015. He is also the founder of Emergent.info\, a real-time rumor tracker that was developed as part a fellowship with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Craig previously founded Regret the Error\, a blog about media accuracy and the discipline of verification. It’s now part of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies\, where he serves as adjunct faculty. Prior to Poynter\, he was part of the team that launched OpenFile\, an online news startup the delivered community-driven reporting in six Canadian cities. Craig edited the Verification Handbook and the Verification Handbook For Investigative Journalism from the European Journalism Center. He is a the former managing editor of PBS MediaShift and has been a columnist for The Globe And Mail\, Toronto Star\, and Columbia Journalism Review. His journalism and books have been honored by the Mirror Awards\, U.S. National Press Club\, National Magazine Awards\, Canadian Online Publishing Awards\, and Crime Writers of Canada. @CraigSilverman [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHossein Derakhshan is an Iranian-Canadian writer and researcher\, and a pioneer of blogging in Iran. He is currently on a joint Harvard Shorenstein and MIT Media Lab fellowship. He recently co-authored the report Information Disorder\, commissioned by the Council of Europe\, with Claire Wardle. He spent six years in prison in Iran from 2008\, which inspired an essay on the demise of blogs and “The Web We Have to Save” (Matter\, 2015). His current research is focused on the theory and socio-political implications of digital and social media. His writings have appeared in Libération\, Die Zeit\, the New York Times\, MIT Technology Review\, and The Guardian. He studied Sociology in Tehran and Media and Communication in London.\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\nAnna Maria Tremonti has been the host of CBC Radio One’s The Current since it first burst onto the airwaves in November of 2002. She brings a mix of hard-edged journalism and hard-won empathy to a 90-minute program that tackles everything from the politics of the day\, to the changes that affect our society\, to the stories of individuals whose personal journeys and traumas affect us all. The Current marked her return to radio after 19 years with CBC Television\, including two years as a host of the flagship investigative program the fifth estate. For nine years she was a foreign correspondent for The National\, based in Berlin\, London\, Jerusalem and Washington. Her assignments abroad included ongoing coverage of the war in Bosnia\, the fall of communism\, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\, as well as the politics of the Arab world\, Europe and the United States.Prior to that\, Anna Maria reported from Parliament Hill\, and worked as a reporter in Nova Scotia\, New Brunswick and Alberta.She began her career in private radio\, at CKEC in New Glasgow Nova Scotia. @TheCurrentCBC[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][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_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nSPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”2206″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nJ-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] \nSoutien en nature\nIn-kind Supporter[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”2119″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/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/building-trust-in-media/
LOCATION:Google\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:2018
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cjf-fjc.ca/wp-content/uploads/7-2018.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR