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SUMMARY:Ronan Farrow on Lies\, Power and Predators
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]– Watch the video\n– Listen to the podcast\n– View the photos \n\n\n\n\n\nIn his book Catch and Kill: Lies\, Spies\, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators\, Ronan Farrow sheds light on the stranger-than-fiction challenges of reporting on his Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker exposé of one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers. Farrow reveals the inexplicable resistance he faced from the major television network where he worked and how he himself became the target of intimidation tactics as he got closer to the truth\, the conspiracies and the cover-ups—similar strategies long deployed to silence victims of sexual abuse. Join Farrow in conversation with Globe and Mail investigative reporter Robyn Doolittle\, author of Had It Coming: What’s Fair in the Age of #MeToo? \n  \n  \nTuesday\, December 3\, 2019\n6pm Doors open 7pm Discussion\nReception to follow (cash bar)\nIsabel Bader Theatre\n93 Charles St. West Toronto \nSpecial offer: Save $20 on seats using promo code CJF-20. Limited seats available. \nEach ticket purchase includes a copy of Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill.[/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]Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer to The New Yorker\, where his investigative reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service\, the National Magazine Award\, and the George Polk Award\, among other honours. He is also currently producing documentaries for HBO. He previously worked as an anchor and investigative reporter at MSNBC and NBC News with his print commentary and reporting appearing in publications including the Wall Street Journal\, the Los Angeles Times\, and the Washington Post. Before his career in journalism\, he served as a State Department official in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence. Farrow has been named one of Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential People and one of GQ‘s Men of the Year. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the New York Bar. He recently completed a Ph.D. in political science at Oxford University\, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in New York. @RonanFarrow[/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]Robyn Doolittle is an award-winning journalist and author. She is a member of the Globe and Mail’s investigative team and is a two-time winner of Canada’s Michener Award. Robyn’s probe into the ways that Canadian police services handle sexual assault cases prompted a national overhaul of policy\, training and practices around sexual violence. For that work\, she was awarded a National Newspaper Award for investigative journalism and was named the 2017 journalist of the year. Robyn released her second book this fall: Had It Coming; What’s Fair In The Age Of #MeToo? @robyndoolittle[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text] \n J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text] \nIN-KIND SUPPORTERS \n[/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=”1/4″][vc_column_text] \nASPIRING JOURNALISTS SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2214″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text] \nMEDIA PARTNER \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2242″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Isabel Bader Theatre\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:2020
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SUMMARY:Postponed: Decoding Digital Discontent: Kara Swisher Talks Tough on Today’s Digital Media Ecosystem
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]WE REGRET THAT THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. We apologize for any inconvenience. For questions\, contact programs@cjf-fjc.ca. \nWith her signature no-holds-barred toughness\, Kara Swisher is a singular force when it comes to covering the all-pervasive tech industry and Silicon Valley. Across many platforms\, she gives voice to today’s digital discontent — privacy concerns\, ethical issues\, tech regulations and U.S. politics. Swisher co-founded the technology news site\, Recode\, in 2014\, hosts and produces the popular podcast Recode Decode and co-founded the Code Conference\, an annual gathering of global tech leaders. She is also a contributing writer for The New York Times. In conversation with Kevin Newman\, host of the podcast Attention Control\, Swisher will discuss how the decisions of today’s tech leaders impact the health of our media and our democracy. \nThursday\, February 6\, 2020\nDoors open 6 p.m. |  Discussion 7 p.m.\nIsabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles St. Toronto[/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]Kara Swisher is the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode\, producer and host of the Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts and co-executive producer of the Code Conference series. She is a New York Times contributing opinion writer and a contributor to NBC\, CNBC and MSNBC. Swisher co-founded Recode and\, before that\, co-produced and co-hosted The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference series (now called the Code conference) with Walt Mossberg starting in 2003. It was\, and still is\, the country’s premier conference on tech and media\, with interviewees such as Bill Gates\, Steve Jobs\, Mark Zuckerberg\, Jeff Bezos\, the Google leadership\, Tim Cook\, Jack Dorsey and many other leading players. She and Mossberg were also the co-executive editors of a tech and media Web site\, AllThingsD.com\, founded in 2007. Swisher worked in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. For many years\, she wrote the column “BoomTown\,” which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and online at WSJ.com. Previously\, Swisher covered breaking news about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. Earlier in her career\, Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington\, D.C. Swisher is also the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates\, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web and the sequel\, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future.[/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]Kevin Newman is host and executive producer of the ground-breaking podcast Attention Control with Kevin Newman. It is the first charity-funded independent journalistic podcast in Canada\, in association with McGill University in Montreal. Kevin has a proven record of innovation in Canadian journalism. He guided the development and success of Global National as the country’s third national newscast and also the first news podcast on Apple’s iTunes. He later created the innovative Kevin Newman Live for CTV\, and was Bell Media’s ‘Digital News Evangelist’. While co-anchoring World News Now at ABC News\, his newscast was the first live streamed on the internet in 1995. Kevin also served for six years on the Board of Directors for the Communitech Hub in Waterloo Ontario which is Canada’s leading start-up incubator. He has created television series and iPad content through his independent company\, NewMan Media Ltd. Kevin’s career in television journalism is unequalled in Canada. He has been host/managing editor of CTV’s Investigative series W5\, host/executive editor of Global National\, co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America\, host of CBC’s\nMidday\, national/international correspondent for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings\, Nightline with Ted Koppel\, and Parliamentary correspondent for CBC The National\, CTV National News and Global News. Along with his son Alex\, Kevin co-authored the best selling memoir All Out.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \n J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nIN-KIND SUPPORTERS \n[/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=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nASPIRING JOURNALISTS SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2214″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Isabel Bader Theatre\, Toronto
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SUMMARY:Guardian of News
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]– Watch the video\n– Listent to the podcast\n– View the photos\n– Read the Toronto Star columns by public editor Kathy English and columnist Heather Mallick\n– Listen to the interview on CBC Radio’s The Current\n– Read the interview with The Globe and Mail’s senior media writer Simon Houpt \nOver a 20-year career as editor of the British daily The Guardian\, Alan Rusbridger oversaw the publication of ground-breaking journalism: the WikiLeaks story\, the phone-hacking scandal\, the mass government surveillance as disclosed by U.S National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. As he managed the transition from national print newspaper to news site with a strong global online readership\, he championed free access and strong journalistic standards. But decisions made along the way were not without their challenges and controversies. Join Rusbridger for this conversation with Irene Gentle\, editor of the Toronto Star\, and for the Canadian launch of his book Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now. \n  \nBreaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now\nAn urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business\, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of our time.\nBooks will be available for purchase. Book-signing will follow the event.\nThis event is general seating\, on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nThursday\, November 29\n6pm Doors open  | 7pm Discussion |  8:30pm Reception (Cash bar)\nIsabel Bader Theatre\n93 Charles St. W. (View map)\nToronto[/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\n\n\n\nAlan Rusbridger was Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian in London for 20 years\, and is currently Principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford\, where he is chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He oversaw the transformation of the Guardian to a world-leading digital news organisation. Under his leadership the paper became the most-visited serious English language website in the world. Investigations into WikiLeaks\, tax avoidance\, phone hacking and the Snowden revelations won numerous awards\, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.  He writes about the transformation and challenges of the news industry in Breaking News (2018). He is a keen amateur musician and described his parallel musical life in Play it Again (2013). He lives in London and Oxford. @arusbridger \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\nIrene Gentle was named earlier this year as Editor of the Toronto Star. Irene is the first female editor in the Star‘s 126-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[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1645634003947{margin-top: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nCJF J-TALKS SERIES SPONSOR \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2207″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nIN-KIND SUPPORTER \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2119″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text] \nMEDIA PARTNER \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2231″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]*Program subject to change[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:Isabel Bader Theatre\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:2018
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