April 27 - 29, 2012 - Canadian Association of Journalists

Canadian Association of Journalists
#CAJ2012
April 27 - 29, 2012
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
www.caj.ca
Congratulations
to all nominees and winners.
From everyone at CBC News.
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Message from the president
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s you thumb your way through this conference program, take
a moment to reflect on this moment. In the pages that follow,
you’ll find three Smiths, five Steves (or variants therein), a few
Roberts, a McGuire, McGregor and a McKie. Just a handful of the almost
100 journalists and media types who’ve come to share what they know,
what they believe, what they fight for with you over this weekend.
One panelist called this line up and our conference “journalism’s
best-kept secret.” (Bonus points if you figure out who said it, or who it
was said to!) Once again, the Canadian Association of Journalists events
committee, fearlessly led these past 10 months by national director and
Centennial College prof Ellin Bessner and tireless volunteer and Toronto
Star staffer Shauna Rempel, have put together a fantastic weekend.
They’ve shepherded a crew of a couple dozen volunteers who’ve
assembled the panels, sessions, workshops and keynotes here at the
Fairmont Royal York this weekend. We owe them all a debt of gratitude.
Show them that gratitude by immersing yourself in all this weekend has
to offer.
For the first time ever, the CAJ has joined with another media organization in a unique partnership that will see hundreds of Newspapers
Canada delegates mingling and attending sessions with CAJ delegates
Friday. What we’ve learned from each other
over the past year will strengthen our respective organizations and events in the years
ahead.
This weekend is also an opportunity to
celebrate the journalism we love— stories
told with deft skill by talented journalists that
showcase the very best of our craft and set the
bar we should all be reaching. In an ever-shifting media landscape, we
toast the finalists and winners of the 2011 CAJ Awards, featuring two
brand-new awards in co-operation with jhr and CWA Canada.
It was at a conference like this one that I was bitten by the CAJ bug
and was first elected to the board of directors in 2005. If you can see
yourself as one of this group, stop and speak to the board members here
this weekend.
Personally, seeing you here makes this an extremely rewarding
weekend for me. I always leave these conferences eager to get back to
my newsroom and put new ideas and projects into practice. I hope it is
rewarding for you too.
—Hugo Rodrigues, CAJ president
Message from the 2012 Conference planning committee
W
elcome to Toronto! The T-dot is home to the largest and most
competitive media market in the country — and it’s become
even more so in the last year thanks to newcomers such as
Huffington Post Canada, which has its bricks-and-mortar headquarters
here in town. Kenny Yum, the managing editor of HuffPo’s Canadian
offshoot, is speaking at about the online newsroom’s first 12 months
north of the 49th parallel.
Yum joins other such notable speakers as newly elected NDP leader
Thomas Mulcair, who will reflect on his role within a party that has
forever changed the federal political landscape.
That’s just a taste of what’s in store over the conference’s three days
of speakers, panels and workshops — plus we have two documentary
screenings, thanks in part to a collaboration with Hot Docs, North
America’s largest documentary film festival.
This year for the first time we’ve also partnered with Newspapers
Canada’s Ink & Beyond conference to offer three jam-packed days of
journalism-related training.
There is something for journalists working in
every medium — including the beat reporter
and those just entering the industry.
This conference is the culmination of months
of hard work by committee members across
the country and here in Toronto who are
committed to providing their fellow
journalists a chance to participate in
high-quality professional development.
But it’s not all about work. We journalists are social creatures, after all.
From a casual pub night to newsroom tours of the Toronto Star and Bell
Media’s Queen Street campus, plus our CAJ Awards banquet and gala
hosted by Global National’s Dawna Friesen, there are plenty of chances
to catch up with old friends and make new connections.
We hope you enjoy the conference. Thank you for supporting the CAJ.
— Shauna Rempel, on behalf of
The planning committee of the 2012 CAJ national conference
Email: [email protected] • www.twitter.com/CdnAssocJourn • www.facebook.com/CdnAssocJournalists
Program designed by Aldis Brennan, Micah Luxen and Dileen Simms
JUSTICIA AWARD 2012
Calling all
journalists
Do yourself justice!
If your superior reporting on justice issues has contributed to public
knowledge, understanding or debate about Canada’s system of justice, you may be a contender for this year’s prestigious Justicia
Awards.
The Justicia Awards recognize outstanding broadcast and print
stories that promote better public awareness of any aspect of
Canada’s justice system. Award winners are selected by an
independent panel of judges.
To qualify, stories must be published or broadcast between
May 16, 2011 and May 15, 2012. The deadline for this year’s
entries is June 1, 2012.
To check out details or obtain an entry form, visit us online at
www.cba.org/CBA/Awards/justicia/, or contact Alison Crone,
Canadian Bar Association, at 1-800-267-8860, ext. 113;
e-mail [email protected].
INFLUENCE. LEADERSHIP. PROTECTION.
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Keynote Speakers
Tony Burman - The Future of News over Noise
Friday 12:15 p.m.
Tony Burman is former head of Al Jazeera English and CBC News, and has been a journalist and news
executive for more than 35 years in Canada, United States, Europe and the Middle East. As of September
2011, he has been the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair in News Media and Technology at Ryerson’s
School of Journalism. During his time as MD of Al Jazeera’s international English-language news channel in
Qatar from 2008-2010, Burman guided AJE’s growth in North America, including its launch in Washington
D.C. and the launch of the channel last year on every major cable and satellite platform in Canada.
Kenny Yum - Taking stock of The Huffington Post Canada’s first year of operation
Saturday 1 p.m.
Kenny Yum is managing editor of The Huffington Post Canada and AOL Canada, which includes the portal
AOL.ca and such sites as Spinner.ca, Autoblog Canada and Moviefone. A digital native, Yum was previously
managing editor, digital, for The National Post, an in-depth producer at the CBC and spent eight years at The
Globe and Mail, where he helped launch the site in June 2000. He returned to The Globe in 2009 to be editor
of globeandmail.com. He was named managing editor of all AOL channels in May 2011, in time to
help launch Huffington Post Canada.
Dawna Friesen - Canadian Association of Journalists 2011 Awards Gala and dinner
Saturday 7 p.m.
Dawna Friesen is anchor/executive editor of Global National. For 11 years, Friesen served as a foreign
correspondent and anchor for NBC, based in London. Appearing on NBC News, Today and MSNBC, she
travelled extensively covering many international news stories, including the Middle East. Prior to joining
NBC, Friesen worked in Toronto at CTV as a national correspondent, anchor and back-up host for Canada
AM. In addition, she served as a parliamentary reporter in CTV’s Ottawa bureau, and as a reporter and
anchor for CBC-TV in Vancouver.
Thomas Mulcair - A look back at the first month in office
Sunday 10:30 a.m.
Thomas Mulcair is leader of the Official Opposition and leader of Canada’s New Democrats. During his career
in provincial politics, Mulcair served as critic for Justice and for Industry, as well as minister of Sustainable
Development, Environment and Parks. Mulcair went on to become the first NDP MP in the province of
Quebec to be elected in a general election. Mulcair helped to create a spectacular breakthrough in Quebec
making Canada’s New Democrats the Official Opposition for the first time in history.
Thank you to our
sponsors
Thank you to the volunteers
who helped make this conference happen
Platinum sponsor — CBC
Martin Seto, Sunnie Huang, Cortney Cook, Kirsten Parucha, Lindy Oughtred, Sylvan Ng,
Dylan Robertson, Simon Doyle, Gustavo Vieira, George Browne, Steve Kowch, Hugo
Rodrigues, Paul Schneidereit, Dale Bass, Malcolm Kelly, Micah Luxen, David McKie, Glen
McGregor, Ted Fairhurst, Elizabeth Thompson, Melissa Lampman, Dorian Nicholson,
Judy Batay, Georgia Williams, Mike Karapita, Shauna Rempel, Ellin Bessner, Angela
Pacienza, Aldis Brennan, Dileen Simms, Lauren McKeon, Philip Alves.
Bronze sponsor — SAP
Supporting sponsor —
Accenture
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Panels and Activities - Friday April 27
9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Opening Plenary: News has value on any platform
A panel of top news executives, including Douglas Knight, CEO, St Joseph Media, Jennifer McGuire, chief of English
News at CBC, Bob Cox, publisher Winnipeg Free Press, Brodie Fenlon, senior news editor of Huffington Post Canada,
and moderator Ted Barris, author and broadcaster, Centennial College journalism professor, give a state-of-theindustry look at the core business of journalism.
9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Hiring tips - Inside tips from Canada’s top newsroom managers
with David Walmsley, managing editor, The Globe and Mail, Angela Pacienza, director of online news, The
Canadian Press, Christina Reynolds, managing editor, Elle Canada, Jonathan Whitten, executive producer of news
content, CBC, Peter Cooney, team editor, Toronto Star, and moderator Jules Elder, OMNI TV and Centennial College.
10 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
State of the Magazine Industry - what journalists need to know to succeed
This session will provide journalists information on the market forces that are shaping the fast changing magazine
industry. We have gathered four industry experts to help journalists see the big picture from a variety of perspectives:
the needs of a small magazine, the challenges of a successful print franchise in the women’s service category, what
ad sales people are doing to generate revenue and lastly what advertisers want. The session is moderated by Martin
Seto, a leading voice in the magazine industry through his blog on Masthead.com, the magazine industry’s website.
Join panelists Brandon Kirk, vice-president of corporate sales, Rogers Publishing Limited, Brenda Bookbinder, VP
of media investments, Novus Canada, Lynn Chambers, group publisher, TC Media, and Martin White, consultant
for Online Magazine Marketing.
12:15 - 2 p.m. Keynote Lunch —
The Future of News over Noise
Featuring Tony Burman,
former Al Jazeera managing
editor, now the Velma Rogers
Graham Research Chair at
Ryerson University. In today’s
fragmented media environment,
is there a drift towards celebrity news and information that is too “light and bright?” Burman
explores how quality news that truly reflects
our communities can survive budget cutbacks
and attract the audiences that newsrooms are
looking for.
Sponsored by Google and Newspapers Canada.
Tickets to this keynote lunch are NOT included
in the CAJ conference registration. For tickets,
please register at www.inkandbeyond.ca.
Social Scene: Make sure your newspaper is top of mind with readers and advertisers
Saul Hansell, former tech reporter with The New York Times, AOL, and Huffington Post, now entrepreneur-inresidence at Betaworks, will share the secrets of engagement using social media. Session sponsored by Businesswire
and Newspapers Canada.
Independent Publishers: How to retire gracefully
Whether it is attracting new partners or having your children take over, family business owners need to think carefully
about an exit strategy when the time comes. Jennifer East, a family business advisor, Founder ONIDA family advisors,
will share practical advice on retirement planning for publishing veterans. Sponsored by Newspapers Canada.
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Educator’s Forum: Entrepreneurial Journalism
Panelists Sherine Mansour, head of the Journalism New Media Graduate Program at Sheridan College, Oakville,
Kelly Toughill, director of the School of Journalism, King’s College, Halifax, Robert Steiner, director of Fellowships in
Global Journalism, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and moderator Mike Karapita, co-ordinator,
Journalism Program, Humber College, will explore the new J-school curriculum. This session presented with
the financial support of the CBC.
What Newspapers Need To Know About Advertising
Staffan Hulten, founder of RAM research, gives delegates a look at the latest newspaper advertising research.
Learn what works, what doesn’t and what newspapers need to know to make print and online ads effective in 2012.
Advertising and sales departments will benefit from this valuable overview of the Canadian advertising landscape.
Sponsored by Newspapers Canada.
Ethnic Media Panel
Explore the challenges of reaching a diverse audience with panelists ZuhairKashmeri,OMNI TV, editor, writer, GinaValle,
founder Diversity Matters, Madeline Ziniak, chair, Canadian Ethnic Media Association and vice president, OMNI TV, and
Dat Nguyen, CEO Skylight Media, and founder Thoi Bao newspapers, and president, Canadian Ethnic Media Association.
Optional lunch program #1 —
Walking Tour of CTV’s 299 Queen
St. campus, home of CP 24/BNN/
MuchMusic, Marilyn Denis Show
and more.
Opportunities to buy lunch along route.
Limited to 25 people. Sign up at the CAJ
registration desk.
Optional lunch program #2 —
Walking Tour of The Toronto Star
newsroom, 1 Yonge St.
Opportunities to buy lunch along route.
Limited to 25 people. Sign up at the CAJ
registration desk.
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2 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Moving beyond the Toy Department: Developing new markets for sports coverage
Join Jeffrey Orridge, executive director of CBC Sports, David Langford, national sports editor at Sun Media,
Mark Milliere, vice president of TSN sports and moderator Malcolm Kelly, CBCSports.ca and founder of the sports
journalism program at Centennial College, Toronto, to discuss sports reporting in the age of social media.
Twitter tricks workshop for journalists
A tutorial for advanced Twitter users featuring tips and tricks from leading newsroom social media experts. In this
“show & tell” session, journalists can learn tools to search more effectively, find better sources more quickly and
reach their audience more effectively. Please bring your laptop, tablet and/or smartphone and join Sarah Millar
of OpenFile.ca, QMI Agency’s William Wolfe-Wylie, and Ron Nurwisah Huffington Post Canada; with moderator
Lauren O’Neil of CBCnews.ca and host Shauna Rempel, #CAJ2012 co-chair.
Brilliant Newsroom Careers: why women stay, why women leave, and why it matters
The panelists discuss their own paths to leadership in Canadian newsrooms, where women are still scarce at the
highest levels of editorial management and as opinion-writers. Why does the “choice” myth persist, where women
journalists see themselves as still having to choose between a career and a family? We discuss what they are doing to
create flexibility, promote mentorship and offer new research on trends. What else needs to happen for newsrooms
to become more diverse generally and why does diversity matter? Join Marci Ien, co-host of CTV’s Canada AM,
Toronto, Margo Goodhand, editor-in-chief, Winnipeg Free Press, Patricia Graham, vice-president, digital, at Pacific
Newspaper Group, Emma Reilly, city hall reporter, the Hamilton Spectator, and moderator Vivian Smith, associate
editor of Boulevard Magazine in Victoria.
Newspapers: A Recipe For Success
Suzanne Raitt, vice-president of marketing and innovation from Newspapers Canada, will share an inspiring
presentation created to highlight the power and effectiveness of newspapers as well as their sites, mobile and tablet
offerings. Sponsored by Newspapers Canada.
3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Creative Destruction: Firing up your newsroom with new models of journalism
Alfred Hermida, social media researcher, associate professor, UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Vancouver, in
conversation with David Skok, 2012 Nieman Journalism Fellow, Harvard University, GlobalNews.ca Managing Editor
(on sabbatical), introduced by Angela Pacienza, director of online news, The Canadian Press.
Growing Revenue
Find out how publishers are tapping into new revenue opportunities by using unique channels, both online and
offline, to increase sales, with Alvin Brouwer, Postmedia. From daily deals and contests to non-news products and
alternative delivery mechanisms, speakers will discuss a variety of profitable initiatives that can be implemented at
your news organization. Sponsored by Newspapers Canada.
Press Councils: What’s your opinion
Ivor Shapiro and Lisa Taylor from the Ryerson School of Journalism will present preliminary findings from their
research into press councils in Canada. Those attending the session will have an opportunity to offer feedback on the
research, as well as share their opinions about the future of press councils. This session sponsored by Newspapers
Canada.
CAR/data journalism teaser session
Join CBC’s David McKie, the Ottawa Citizen’s Glen McGregor and King’s College’s Fred Vallance-Jones for this
session on using data journalism techniques to research and tell 10 stories that you can take back to your newsroom.
This session is meant to whet your palate for the offsite workshop that’s taking place all day Saturday and Sunday at
Ryerson University. This session presented with the financial support of the CBC.
Evening
4:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Online News Association Meet and
Greet
This Toronto chapter meet-and-greet session is
open to CAJ conference delegates, at Biermarket
on the Esplanade near Yonge and Front Sts.
Reservation is under “ONA”
7 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
National Newspaper Awards and
Ontario Community Newspaper
Awards
This evening features two industry awards
galas, not included in the CAJ conference
registration:
- The National Newspaper Awards, celebrating
excellence in daily newspaper journalism in
both English and French from across Canada. For
tickets, please visit www.nna-ccj.ca.
- Ontario Community Newspapers Association’s
Better Newspapers Competition Awards Gala,
celebrating excellence in community newspaper
journalism from across Ontario. For tickets,
please visit www.inkandbeyond.ca.
9:15 p.m. – 11:15 p.m.
Reluctant Revolutionary —
co-presentation with HotDocs
The CAJ is pleased to co-present the
documentary film The Reluctant Revolutionary
in partnership with the HotDocs Festival. The
screening takes place at the Cumberland 3.
Nominations for
two open national director seats
Nominations for two open national director
seats on the national CAJ board will be accepted
at the registration desk until 3 p.m. Saturday.
More information available on our website or at
the registration desk
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Panels and Activities - Saturday April 28
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Violence, Trauma and Social Media: the new challenges of filing from the front line
A panel of senior journalists and editors to discuss the ways that social media is driving the coverage of violent and
traumatic stories. Featuring Esther Enkin, Executive Editor, CBC News, Wilf Dinnick, CEO of OpenFile, Michelle
Shephard, National Security Correspondent, Toronto Star and Judith Matloff, veteran foreign correspondent,
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, with moderator Jeffrey Dvorkin, University of Toronto and
Organization of News Ombudsmen. Presented by the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.
Editorial Independence and Advertorials: an age-old newsroom problem
Robert Washburn, founder of ConsiderThis.ca, hyperlocal journalist and professor of e-journalism at Loyalist College
in Belleville, Peter Kvarnstrom, vice president of Glacier Media in B.C. and chair of Canadian Newspaper Association,
Kimberley Magi, former reporter for Black Press in Castlegar, B.C., Deb Bodine, former editor-in-chief, Metroland
Ottawa and moderator Micah Luxen, a former editor at the Kelowna Daily Courier, will discuss how newsrooms can
say no to advertisers.
Business Reporting: how well are Canadian consumers being served
We assess how well business publications — and the journalists they employ — have covered the economic
downturn, and its myriad crises. Join panelists Janice Paskey, Mount Royal University, Frances Horodelski, BNN,
Mike Eppel, 680 News, Al Rosen, Rosen & Associates and moderator Ellen Roseman, The Toronto Star.
Evidence Network: Health care stories are good for you
Veteran investigative reporter Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator, Jennifer Verma, Canadian Health Services Research
Foundation, and moderator Sharon Manson Singer, EvidenceNetwork.ca will share where to go for hyperlocal
health stats and story ideas and offer examples of good and bad health reporting. Co-presented by the Health Evidence
Network of Canada.
10:45 - 11:30 a.m. Freedom of Information in Canada
Dean Beeby, bureau chief, The Canadian Press in Ottawa, will give a status update on FOI.
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Covering Civil Unrest: A safety workshop for journalists
Judith Matloff of the Columbia School of Journalism leads this training session for journalists seeking to better
prepare themselves to report on street protests and riots. She will offer practical instruction on how to safely navigate
volatile crowds and aggressive policing tactics. Presented by the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.
A writer’s magic: The mechanic behind the muse
Writing can seem mysterious — more magic than craft. And great writers — or, more accurately, great writing —
can make it seem easy, while the rest of us slog and struggle. Led by Jacqui Banaszynski, Knight Chair professor at
the Missouri School of Journalism.
Social Media Optimization is the new SEO: digital journalism gurus reveal how to
attract more eyeballs
Keith Robinson, GlobalNews.ca, Craig Saila, Digital Products director at The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Sudha
Krishna, associate vice president, digital, Asia TV, New York, Kim Fox, senior producer, CBC Digital Music, Wilf
Dinnick, CEO of OpenFile.ca and moderator George Browne, senior producer, GlobalNews.ca.
Good Morning CAJ: Why Morning Radio still matters in journalism
John Moore, NewsTalk 1010, Laura Brown, CBC Radio, Marlane Oliver, 680 News, and moderator Steve Kowch,
Kowchmedia.com, former program director CFRB Newstalk 1010 in Toronto. This session presented with the
financial support of the CBC.
Coffee break 10:30 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
sponsored by SAP
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Computer Assisted Reporting Courses at Ryerson University led by
Canada’s foremost experts in data scraping and
data mining for investigative stories. These
workshops are sponsored by Ryerson University’s
School of Journalism. Investigative reporters
David McKie, CBC News, Ottawa, Glen McGregor, Ottawa Citizen, and Fred VallanceJones , King’s College, will lead participants
through research resources.
Registration is on a first-come first-served
basis. Please email us at [email protected]
if you’re interested in booking a spot. Any
remaining spots will be offered at the CAJ
registration table on Friday, April 27.
The emphasis will be on using data sets such as
building inspections that can be obtained either
by using freedom of information, or publicly
available data sets such as public sector salaries
or crime data.
These data sets can be analyzed using a variety
of tools including Excel, ArcMap, Google’s Fusion
Tables, Tableau Public and web scraping. The
stories can tell readers, viewers and listeners
which neighbourhoods have the highest rate of
break-ins or car thefts and bicycle thefts; which
areas of the city have the highest proportion of
discarded needles and whether factors such as
income level have any bearing on these trends.
We’ll even learn how to show which areas of
town are best for singles to meet. The idea is to
discuss the stories by walking people through
the methodology that takes them from A to Z,
with “Z” being the story. Some knowledge of the
tools such as Excel, Fusion Tables, or executing
spatial joins using mapping software such as
ArcMap will be useful, but no means an absolute
prerequisite.
There will also be tip sheets and extra data
sets that will provide lots of opportunities
for practice.
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2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Local TV News is Back – How Toronto’s top TV news stations duke it out to grab more
viewers in a world of 24/7 local news in Canada’s biggest market.
Join panelists Amar Sodhi, City News, Steve Cassar, CTV Toronto, news director, Sophia Hadzipetros, manager,
Ontario region, CBC, Stephanie Smyth, CP24 senior producer, Breaking News, Ward Smith, Global News Toronto,
news director, and moderator Ellin Bessner, professor, Centennial College.
Professionalization of Journalism: A continuing discussion
Kirk LaPointe, ombudsman, CBC, and professor, UBC School of Journalism, Vancouver, Paul Knox, Ryerson University
School of Journalism, Toronto, and Brian Myles, Le Devoir, president, Quebec Federation of Professional Journalists,
Montreal, share their thoughts on professionalization. This session presented with the financial support of the
CBC.
Foreign Reporting: New technologies and reduced budgets - What are the latest trends?
With Graeme Smith, The Globe and Mail, Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press, Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star,
and moderator Darryl Konynenbelt, acting director public relations, World Vision Canada, former Global TV reporter.
1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Keynote Speaker:
Kenny Yum, Huffington
Post Canada - Taking stock
of the news aggregator’s
first year of operation north
of the 49th parallel. This is
not a luncheon. CAJ delegates
will need to obtain their own lunch prior to this
session.
Coffee break 2 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
sponsored by Accenture
The art of the interview: Turning sources and subjects into storytellers
Jacqui Banaszynski, Knight Chair professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, will drill down on interviewing as
a vibrant and strategic dynamic that elicits accountability, verifiable facts, dazzling quotes, relevant anecdotes and
telling detail, and that turns subjects into storytellers.
Google Presentation
Google has become an important player in the news world with its Google News, Android, YouTube and Google+
platforms and services. Hear from Wendy Rozeluk, an official with Google Canada at this session about news
consumption trends the company’s role in the news business.
3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Hyperlocal Journalism: Has it caught on in Canada?
Robert Washburn, founder of ConsiderThis.ca, hyperlocal journalist and professor of e-journalism at Loyalist College
in Belleville, Stephen Cogan, managing editor, East York Observer and TorontoObserver.ca, Joe Banks, co-ordinator
of the journalism program at Algonquin College, founder of GoJournalism.ca, Wilf Dinnick, CEO, OpenFile.ca, and
moderator Stacey McLeod, content producer, project co-ordinator for community blogging initiative Speak Your Mind
at The Toronto Star, discuss whether hyperlocal reporting has caught on in Canada, and if not, why. For a few years now,
it’s been “the year of hyperlocal journalism,” so how will it really fare in 2012?
Ethics panel: Current dilemmas journalists face in a digital world
Social media policies: How do organizations worldwide shape social media policies? Discussion featuring Bert Bruser,
counsel, The Toronto Star, Lisa Taylor, Ryerson University, Stephen J.A. Ward, director, Center for Ethics, University
of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and moderator Ted Fairhurst, law and ethics
professor, Centennial College joint journalism program with the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Speed dating: Networking sessions in small groups with managers from some of
Canada’s top newsrooms
Scott White, editor-in-chief, The Canadian Press, Kim Elliott, Rabble’s publisher, Tim Shore, blogTO’s publisher,
John Racovali, National Post’s assistant managing editor, Lauren McKeon, This Magazine’s editor, Jennifer
McGuire, editor-in-chief, CBC, Lara Zarum, The Grid’s production editor, Nancy Macdonald, associate editor,
Maclean’s, Roger Gillespie, executive producer, CBC Hamilton, and Christina Reynolds, Elle Canada’s managing
editor, Peter Cooney, team editor, The Toronto Star, Kyle Wyatt, managing editor of the Walrus and moderator Mary
Agnes Welch, Winnipeg Free Press reporter. Bring your résumés!
Mobile Journalism in the field
with Gary Symons, president and CTO of VeriCorder Technology. Let a former CBC journalist teach you how to use
your smartphone to edit audio and video in the field, distribute content and integrate it with your newsroom system.
7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Canadian Association of Journalists
2011 Awards Gala and dinner
Join MC Dawna Friesen,
Global National News anchor and
executive editor, as we celebrate
the 2011 CAJ Awards program
finalists and announce the winners in 15 different categories
that cross all media formats, including the
winner of Canada’s top prize for investigative
journalism — the Don McGillivray Award. If
you have registered as a CAJ journalist member,
associate member or non-member for the
entire conference, your gala ticket is included
(please indicate you wish to attend through your
registration). Student members and single-day
conference registration does not include a gala
ticket. Gala tickets can be purchased separately
at www.caj.ca.
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Panels and Activities - Sunday April 29
9:30 a.m to 10:30 a.m.
Reporting journalism in Aboriginal communities
This panel discussion will look at ways for mainstream reporters in all forms of media to effectively cover First Nations
issues from a respectful, knowledgeable and effective way. It’s not easy to learn thousands of years of history, or even
500 years of colonialism through the eyes of the First Nations, but we will discuss various methods, some that have
worked and others that should be avoided. Featuring Richard Tardif, executive director of the Quebec Community
Newspapers Association, Jorge Barrera, APTN journalist. Panel discussion led by Steve Bonspiel, editor / publisher
of the Eastern Door in Kanesatake, Que.
Who is standing up for Canadian journalists?
Join Paul Saguil, Canadian issues committee member at the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Michael
OReilly, president of the Canadian Freelance Union, Hugo Rodrigues, president of the Canadian Association of
Journalists and multimedia journalist at the Brantford Expositor, and moderator Micah Luxen, The Globe and Mail, as
they discuss the resources available for members of the media.
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Keynote Speaker - Thomas Mulcair
Thomas Mulcair, the Outremont MP elected leader of the Official Opposition and leader
of Canada’s New Democrats last month, will speak to delegates during a keynote address.
He has been asked to reflect on his first 30 days in office and has agreed to a short question-andanswer period.
11:45 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Data-mining: How to get real answers out of one of your toughest sources
Led by Momoko Price, journalist and communications director of Toronto startup BuzzData, this workshop will teach
how to use powerful free tools such as ScraperWiki, Google Refine and BuzzData to scrape large data files off the web,
mine them for meaningful trends quickly and publish your findings privately to your team or publicly to the world.
Coding web-scrapers from scratch will not be covered during the workshop, however, scripts will be provided to run
and experiment with, as well as programming reference material and cheat sheets for those interested in learning to
code.
12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Screening of Under Fire: Journalists in Combat plus Q and A session with the director
Martyn Burke
A special presentation of the Academy Award-shortlisted documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat followed
by a Q & A session with producer-director-writer Martyn Burke. Under Fire delves into the experiences of major
journalists from the CBC, The Toronto Star, New York Times, AP, Times of London, BBC, the LA Times and others, to bring
a deeper understanding of the psychological cost of covering war.
2 p.m.
Join us Sunday afternoon for the
Canadian Association of Journalists AGM
The annual general meeting of the Canadian Association of Journalists. Members in good standing are able to attend
and vote. Non-members are welcome to attend.
Coffee break 9 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
sponsored by CBC
9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Computer Assisted Reporting
Courses at Ryerson University led by
Canada’s foremost experts in data scraping
and data mining for investigative stories.
These workshops are sponsored by Ryerson
University’s School of Journalism. Investigative reporters David McKie, CBC News, Ottawa, Glen McGregor, Ottawa Citizen, and
Fred Vallance-Jones , King’s College, will lead
participants through research resources.
Registration is on a first-come first-served
basis, please email us at [email protected]
if you’re interested in booking a spot. Any
remaining spots will be offered at the CAJ
registration table on Friday, April 27, 2012.
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Speaker Biographies
Jacqui Banaszynski
worked as a newspaper
reporter and editor for over
30 years, most recently
with The Seattle Times. Her
series AIDS in the Heartland
won the 1988 Pulitzer
Prize in feature writing.
She won the nation’s top
deadline reporting award
for coverage of the 1988
Olympics. She has edited
several award-winning
projects as well. In 2008,
she was named to the
AASFE Features Hall of
Fame. She is now a professor at the Missouri School
of Journalism.
Joe Banks has been an
award-winning Ontario rural and suburban
community newspaper
journalist, editor, publisher,
general manager for more
34 years, and has been
with Algonquin College as
a full-time professor and
co-ordinator of the journalism program since 2000.
In addition to his teaching
duties at Algonquin, Banks
writes a freelance column
for the daily Ottawa Citizen,
and is director of the webbased community journalism project, GoJournalism.
ca, based in Ottawa.
Jorge Barrera has been
a journalist for over a
decade. Throughout his
career, Jorge has reported
from places like Ottawa,
Iqaluit, Haiti and Venezuela. He is currently working
for the Aboriginal Peoples
Television Network. Before
joining APTN, Jorge worked
for Canwest News Service
and Sun Media.
Ted Barris is a journalist,
author and broadcaster.
For 40 years, his writing
has regularly appeared in
the national press as well
as magazines as diverse
as Legion, Air Force, esprit
de corps, and others. He
has worked as host/
contributor for most CBC
Radio programs and on TV
Ontario. He is a professor of
journalism at Toronto’s Centennial College and is the
author of 16 non-fiction
books, including a series
on wartime Canada: Juno:
Canadians at D-Day, June
6, 1944.
Dean Beeby graduated with an MA (History)
from the University of
Toronto. He joined The
Canadian Press a year later
as a journalist in Toronto,
transferring to Ottawa, to
Toronto (as business editor), to Halifax (as bureau
chief) and most recently
to the Ottawa bureau as
deputy bureau chief. He is a
frequent user of freedomof-information laws in
Canada; has conducted FOI
seminars for the Canadian
Newspaper Association,
the CAJ, and many news
outlets across Canada.
Ellin Bessner is co-chair
#CAJ2012 conference committee. A graduate of Carleton’s journalism program,
Bessner worked for CBC
News in Eastern Canada, as
a reporter, anchor and editor. She spent six years as
a correspondent based in
Rome, covering the Vatican
and conflicts in Africa. In
1997, she was hired to help
launch CTV News Net. She
has taught since 2000, at
Ryerson University, Seneca
College and Centennial
College. She runs radio
and TV news curriculum at
Centennial.
Deb Bodine has enjoyed
a 22-year career in community journalism with
the Metroland Media
Group. More than 12 of
those years she served
as editor-in-chief: from
1999 to 2009 at Toronto
Community News, and from
2009 to December 2011
at the Ottawa division,
where she led the editorial
team through a period of
tremendous change and
growth. Bodine served on
the board of the Ontario
Press Council from 2007
to 2009.
Steve Bonspiel is an
award-winning journalist from the Mohawk
community of Kanesatake,
who started his journalism
career nine years ago with
The Nation magazine, serving the Cree of Northern
Quebec. He is the editor/
publisher of The Eastern
Door newspaper in Kahnawake, Quebec. He won
the 2011 Canadian Association of Journalists’ top prize
in community journalism
for his coverage of the
Mohawk Council’s eviction
letters to non-Natives.
Brenda Bookbinder is an
ad agency veteran and is
the VP of Media Investments at Novus Canada.
Earlier she was the VP
Group Director Print at PHD
Canada, one of the largest
media planning/buying
agencies in Canada. She is
one of Canada’s preeminent print media experts
and has worked with clients such as Honda Canada
and Unilever Canada. She
also was the P&G agency of
record manager for three
years when she worked at
Media Vest.
Murray Brewster has
been a journalist for 27
years, mostly with The
Canadian Press. He is
currently the parliamentary defence reporter and
senior war correspondent.
Brewster has covered
many national and foreign
assignments, notably
the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks, the
submarine fire aboard
HMCS Chicoutimi and
hurricane Katrina. Brewster
has won 11 national RadioTelevision News Director
Association awards.
George Browne has
almost 25 years of experience working with Global
News at the local, national,
and digital level. Browne
is the founding executive
producer of Global National, helping the nightly
newscast find its voice as a
destination for Canadians.
He is also a passionate
documentary filmmaker
and broadcast journalism
instructor at Centennial College. He has won
national and international
awards and has earned five
Gemini nominations.
Bert Bruser is The Toronto
Star’s lawyer. He is also an
adjunct professor at the
Faculty of Law, University
of Toronto, and the journalism school at Ryerson
University. Bruser was
admitted to the Ontario
Bar in 1974. He holds a
LL.B. from University of
Toronto (1972) as well as
a masters in journalism
from Columbia University
and a bachelor of arts from
Princeton University.
Speaker Biographies
Steve Buist is an investigative reporter and feature
writer at the Hamilton
Spectator. He has won
three National Newspaper
Awards and nominated
for four others. He’s been
named the country’s
Investigative Journalist of
the Year on two occasions
and Ontario’s Journalist of
the Year three times. Last
year, Buist became the first
Canadian winner of the
Hillman Prize, handed out
by the U.S.-based Hillman
Foundation for the best
piece of journalism related
to social justice issues.
Martyn Burke works in
a multitude of worlds,
moving between novels,
films, and documentaries.
He has published six highly
acclaimed novels, been
nominated for Emmys,
Directors Guild, and Writers
Guild awards for his feature
and television films. He
has made award-winning
television and theatrical
documentaries including
the Academy Award-short
listed Under Fire: Journalists
in Combat, and on other
topics ranging from traveling carnivals to terrorism.
Steve Cassar is news
director for CTV News
Toronto, managing the
planning, production and
presentation of the program as well as CTV News
at Noon and CTV News
at 11:30. He has helped
define and maintain ethical, editorial, and technical
standards for the CTV
Toronto, which won the Edward R. Murrow Award for
Overall Excellence in 2010.
Prior to CTV Toronto, Cassar
worked at Global News
in Toronto for six years in
various posts including
Managing Editor.
Lynn Chambers is a
magazine industry veteran
in the women’s service
category and currently
is the Group Publisher
of Canadian Living, ELLE
Canada, More and the
newly announced Juice in
partnership with Loblaws.
Chambers joined TC Media
in 2006 and is responsible
for developing print and
digital strategy. She previously held senior marketing positions at several of
Canada’s leading brands
– Clinique Cosmetics,
Jamieson Laboratories and
Canadian Cancer Society.
Stephen Cogan is a proud
alumnus of hyperlocal
community newspapers in
the Upper Ottawa Valley.
He’s also been a writer
and editor at the Kingston
Whig-Standard, CBC News
in Toronto and NBC News in
New York. He co-manages
the journalism programs
at Centennial College in Toronto, where he attempts
to put hyperlocal theory
into practice in the pages
of the East York Observer
student newspaper.
Peter Cooney is The
Toronto Star’s team editor
for training. He worked in
various editorial roles for
many years at The Gazette
in Montreal, and led a
small team that started The
Gazette’s website in 1995.
Cooney has also worked
on newspapers and other
editorial projects in the
UK, U.S. and Caribbean,
and was a senior editor at
The National in Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates.
He is a part-time faculty
member in the journalism
department of Concordia
University, Montreal.
Wilf Dinnick is founding
editor and CEO of OpenFile,
a network of local online
news sites. As a foreign
correspondent, Dinnick
reported from Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and parts of
Africa, Asia, and Europe. He
covered the Iraq War and
Afghanistan’s elections.
Dinnick is an awardwinning journalist and has
worked for all three major
Canadian networks. He
was also an International
Correspondent for CNN and
the Middle East Correspondent for ABC News.
Jeffrey Dvorkin is the
director of the Journalism
Program at the University of Toronto and is the
executive director of the
Organization of News
Ombudsmen. He has held
journalism appointments
at Ryerson University,
Georgetown University and
the University of Missouri.
Dvorkin was NPR’s first ombudsman from 2000-2006.
He was named NPR’s VP
of News and Information
in 1997 and CBC Radio’s
managing editor and chief
journalist from 1991-1997.
Jules Elder works at
OMNI Television as a news
writer/editor, and associate
producer for the program
In The Black, where he
received The Canadian
Ethnic Media Association
2003 award for his work.
He is the co-ordinator for
the Centennial College New
Media and Journalism joint
programs with University
of Toronto Scarborough
(UTSC). He also supervises the journalism field
placements and manages
Centennial College Internet
Radio.
Kim Elliott has
been the publisher of
Rabble.ca since 2005, having joined rabble in 2004
as managing editor, and
is committed to making
progressive, independent
journalism a sustainable
media alternative. She has
graduate degrees in Comparative Literary Studies,
sociology and non-profit
administration.
Esther Enkin was appointed Executive Editor,
CBC News in 2008. Enkin
has worked in radio and
television at CBC since
1975. She was a founding
member of The Journal,
and went on to be a
documentary field
producer. As head of
information programming
and chief journalist, Enkin
helped developed new
programs including This
Morning and she oversaw
the first steps in the integration of radio, television
and online news.
Mike Eppel is the Senior
Business Editor at 680
News and the Rogers Radio
Network. Previously, he
worked as a Business Editor
for CTV National News, CTV
Newsnet and CFTO-TV. He
has also worked for Report
on Business Television, The
Toronto Stock Exchange,
Rock 95FM in Barrie, CKNX
Radio, Wingham and CKOT
Radio, Tillsonburg. Eppel
graduated from Ryerson’s
Radio and Television Arts
program in 1990. He also
attended the University of
Western Ontario.
Speaker Biographies
Ted Fairhurst teaches
journalism law and ethics
at Centennial College in
Toronto. He is also the
co-ordinator of the college
component of the Joint
Journalism Program
between Centennial
College and the University
of Toronto at Scarborough
College. For more than 25
years, Fairhurst was a radio
news reporter/editor with
the CBC in Toronto.
Brodie Fenlon studied
journalism at the University of Western Ontario and
has worked as a reporter
for The London Free Press,
The Toronto Sun and The
Globe and Mail on a number of beats. In 2007, he
moved to digital, working
as an online reporter and
editor for The Globe. He
was the lead online editor
for Project Jacmel, a yearlong study of a Haitian
city, which won a National
Newspaper Award. In
May 2011, Fenlon helped
launch The Huffington Post
Canada.
Margo Goodhand is the
editor of the Winnipeg Free
Press, and the first woman
to hold the job. She joined
the newspaper in 1991,
where she has held a variety of roles. She has edited
books, including the Free
Press’s The Hermetic Code,
a Manitoba best-seller.
In the last five years, the
Free Press has earned five
international awards and
21 national awards, including a Michener citation for
meritorious journalism. It
was deemed the nation’s
best news organization in
2009.
Patricia Graham is vice
president, digital for
Pacific Newspaper Group,
publisher of The Vancouver
Sun and The Province.
Graham began her
journalism career in 1980
as a reporter at The Globe
and Mail. Graham was a
lecturer at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism.
She was twice named
one of Canada’s Top 100
Most Powerful Women
by the Women’s Executive
Network and was a recipient of the Hadassah-WIZO
Woman of Achievement
Award.
Sophia Hadzipetros,
CBC’s Manager, Ontario
Region, is currently working on setting up and
expanding CBC’s new local
stations in Ontario. Before
taking on this role, Hadzipetros spent seven years as
the managing editor of CBC
News Toronto. Throughout
her career at CBC, she has
held senior editorial roles.
Programs she has led have
received numerous Gemini,
RTNDA and CAJ awards and
nominations. Hadzipetros
was a founding producer
of CBC’s first move into
all-night radio.
Saul Hansell has spent
his entire career at the
intersection of technology,
business and journalism.
He worked for the New York
Times, covering finance,
e-commerce and technology, and was the founding
editor of the paper’s Bits
blog. In 2009, Hansell
left the Times to join AOL
Huffington Post Media
Group as the programming director of the AOL
content platform. Hansell
left the company at the
end of 2011 to become the
entrepreneur in residence
at Betaworks.
Alfred Hermida is an
award-winning associate
professor at the University
of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
An online news pioneer,
digital media scholar and
journalism educator, his
research explores the
convergence of media
technologies, industries,
content and audiences. He
co-authored Participatory
Journalism: Guarding Open
Gates at Online Newspapers, and is working on a
book on social media and
journalism.
Frances Horodelski has
over 25 years of experience
working with two of Canada’s largest investment
dealers. Her career has
spanned research, portfolio
advice, investment banking and international
strategy. She has held a
variety of roles, including
senior management, and
was appointed one of
only a handful of women
directors at RBC Dominion
Securities in the 1990s. Her
great love, however, is the
analysis of markets and
companies.
Marci Ien is the Co-Host of
Canada AM, CTV’s national
morning show. Her career
in television spans more
than three decades.
The Black Business and
Professional Association
has honoured Ien with the
Harry Jerome Award for her
contribution to journalism
in Canada. While working
at CHCH-TV in Hamilton,
her news series Journey to
Freedom - A Look at the Underground Railroad earned
her a Canadian Radio and
Television News Directors’
Award.
Mike Karapita is coordinator of the Journalism Program at Humber
College. Karapita spoke on
two occasions at the World
Conference on Educational
Multimedia, Hypermedia &
Telecommunications, about
Humber’s groundbreaking
work in online journalism.
Karapita has worked at The
Canadian Press, CTV News
and CBC News. He has been
nominated for a Gemini
and has also worked as a
freelance travel writer for
the National Post and CP.
Zuhair Kashmeri is an
editor, writer and broadcaster. He is the editorial
commentator for OMNI-TV
South Asian news hour
(Ontario and Western Canada). Kashmeri is the author
of two books, Soft Target:
The Real Story Behind the
Air-India Bombing, and
The Gulf Within: Canadian
Arabs, Racism and the Gulf
War. He has worked at The
Indian Express (Bombay),
The Globe and Mail, the CBC
and NOW Magazine. He
just finished producing The
Golden Pen.
Malcolm Kelly has been
a sports journalist for 27
years, covering everything
from amateur and Olympic-style to high school and
professional events. Kelly is
also a best-selling author
of four books, including The
Complete Idiot’s Guide to Canadian Sports History and
Hanging it Out on Camera
Three: Canadian Sports in
the Media Era. He teaches
in the Centennial College
journalism programs.
Speaker Biographies
Brandon Kirk is vicepresident of corporate
sales at Rogers Publishing,
where he oversees sales
and sales strategy for their
consumer brands. He has
been in publishing for
more than 14 years and
previously oversaw sales
at Sportsnet magazine as
the associate publisher.
Kirk’s experience includes
working with CanWest,
Time Inc and Reader’s
Digest. For the majority of
his career, Kirk has been
focused on developing a
multi-platform vision for
media properties.
Douglas Knight is president of St. Joseph Media,
Canada’s largest
privately held magazine
company. Knight has been
a senior media executive
and leading digital media
strategist in North
America for 34 years. He
served as publisher of The
Financial Post Magazine,
the Financial Post and the
Toronto Sun, and was the
founding chair and CEO of
impreMedia LLC, the largest publisher of Spanish
language newspapers in
the U.S. He is also a director
of Magazines Canada.
Paul Knox is Associate
Professor in the School
of Journalism at Ryerson
University. He teaches
international journalism,
news reporting and feature
writing. His research interests include challenges
to freedom of expression,
international news practices and the journalistic
memoir. He was with The
Globe and Mail for 27 years
as a columnist, editor and
foreign correspondent. He
received the Maria Moors
Cabot prize from Columbia
University for his reporting
on the Americas.
Darryl Konynenbelt is
interim acting director
of public relations World
Vision Canada. A former
Canadian TV journalist,
he brings more than two
decades of media expertise
as both a TV reporter and
educator of journalism.
Konynenbelt is the recipient of numerous industry
accolades for his work
as a general assignment
reporter and investigative
journalist for human interest stories, political reporting. He was also bureau
chief for Global Toronto’s
Mississauga Bureau.
Steve Kowch has 14 years
experience running two
of Canada’s largest news
talk radio stations — CFRB
in Toronto and CJAD in
Montreal. Kowch created
his consulting company
kowchmedia after a 40
year career in journalism, broadcasting and
radio management. While
managing programming
at CFRB and CJAD, he
produced special event
programming that won 30
awards. He is a professor of
radio and documentaries
at Humber College and
Seneca College.
Sudha Krishna has 12
years journalism experience as a reporter and
producer for the CBC.
He received an Emmy
nomination in Advanced
New Media Technology as
the senior producer of a
national, multi-platform
variety show ZeD on CBC.
Krishna’s most recent job
in Canada was for Global
News where he was senior
producer for local TV
news websites, picking
up an Online News Award
nomination for breaking
coverage of the Slave Lake
Fires.
Peter Kvarnstrom is vice
president B.C. newspaper
operations for Glacier
Media Group and chair of
the Canadian Newspaper
Association. Kvarnstrom
joined the newspaper industry as a classified sales
rep at the North Shore News
and launched the Coast
Reporter. He represents
Glacier on the Canadian
Newspaper Association
as chair of the board of
directors and previously
served as president of the
Canadian Community
Newspaper Association.
Dave Langford has been
Sun Media national sports
editor for the past four
years and was the London
Free Press sports editor for
14 years. He worked at The
Globe and Mail as well.
While at The Globe, Langford worked regularly on
The Fan and did stints on
the sports panels at Canada
AM and CBC Radio. He
also worked on the Conn
Smythe sports celebrity
dinner for nine years and
was co-chair of the committee for four years with
Scott Morrison.
Kirk LaPointe has been
the Ombudsman for the
CBC since November
2010; he is the public
representative in reviewing
complaints about CBC’s
content. He has held a
variety of senior media
roles — managing editor
of The Vancouver Sun and
a top editorial roles at CTV
News. He has been a host
on CBC Newsworld, the
founding executive editor
of National Post, and the
Ottawa Bureau Chief and
general news editor of The
Canadian Press.
Anne Lavrih has been
working in radio since 1985
and has done just about
everything along the way.
More recently Lavrih has
been a writer, news editor
and is currently is the
newsroom co-coordinator
at 680News. She has emceed numerous Women of
Influence luncheons at the
Metro Convention Center
and has anchored on CFMT
TV. Lavrih is also the voice
of the 680News Calendar
and Website. She produces
and voices the Today’s
Parent Report.
Micah Luxen works at
The Globe and Mail and is
a student of digital media
at the Ontario College of
Art and Design. Luxen has
worked for The Kelowna
Daily Courier, The Penticton
Herald, NBC News in New
York and Examiner.com.
She graduated from the
University of Victoria with
a B.A. in political science
and studied investigative
reporting at UCLA Extension.
Joanne MacDonald is
vice-president of News and
general manager at CP24
and has spent more than
25 years with CTV. She was
director of CTV News from
1997 to 2002, after holding
positions as deputy Ottawa
bureau chief and bureau
manager. Before joining
CTV News, she worked as
an operator and producer
for radio stations CJRT
and CJCL. MacDonald is
on the Advisory Board for
Sheridan College Journalism Broadcast Program
Advisory Committee.
Speaker Biographies
Nancy Macdonald is an
associate editor with Maclean’s. Born in Winnipeg
and educated in Montreal,
she began her career in
Vancouver, and is a multiple National Magazine
Award nominee.
Kimberley Magi is a
freelance journalist and
photographer based in Toronto. Until July 2011, she
worked in the Kootenay
region of B.C. as the sole
reporter and photographer
at Black Press newspaper
the Castlegar News. She has
also freelanced for various
magazines, newspapers
and online publications,
including Monday Magazine, Optical Prism and
Momentum. Magi holds
a B.A. in sociology (social
justice concentration) with
a minor in journalism from
the University of Victoria.
Sharon Manson Singer
has more than two decades
of public sector experience
as a policy leader, senior
executive manager and
advisor to governments,
business and non-profit
organizations. Her areas of
expertise include health
and social policy, research
methods, voluntary sector
management and leadership. Manson Singer was a
professor at UBC and is also
an adjunct professor at the
School of Public Administration at the University of
Victoria and Royal Roads
University.
Sherine Mansour is a
former television journalist
as a news anchor/host.
Mansour has also written,
produced and hosted biographical documentaries
on Canadians of distinction
for CPAC. Mansour is a
professor of journalism,
teaching courses in reporting, hosting, producing,
writing, multi-media production and entrepreneurial journalism at Sheridan
College. Mansour will be
producing a documentary
radio series this summer on
the democratization of the
Egyptian news media.
Judith Matloff is a veteran foreign correspondent
with 30 years experience
on five continents. She
teaches conflict reportage
at the Columbia Graduate
School of Journalism and
has won various accolades,
including a MacArthur
fellowship. She headed the
Moscow and Africa bureaus
of The Christian Science
Monitor and has written for
magazines including The
New York Times Magazine
and The Economist. Matloff
has authored two books,
Home Girl and Fragments of
a Forgotten War.
Glen McGregor is an
Ottawa Citizen reporter
covering government, politics and anything else that
interests him, specializing
in data journalism and
Twitter evangelism.
Jennifer McGuire has
been the general manager
and editor in chief of CBC
News since May 2009. McGuire is responsible for local and network news and
current affairs programming on CBC Television,
CBC Radio, and CBCNews.
ca. Formerly executive
director of CBC Radio,
McGuire was responsible
for all of radio. McGuire
led the repositioning of
CBC Radio 2 and 3 and the
launch of CBC Radio on
Sirius Satellite Radio.
Lauren McKeon is the
editor-in-chief of This
Magazine. Before that,
she worked as a journalist
in the Arctic, travelling
Canada’s territories and
northern Alberta to write
about everything from
pipelines to prisons. Her
work was honoured at the
National Magazine Awards
and the Western Magazine
Awards. As associate editor,
she helped Up Here Business win Magazine of the
Year at the 2011 Kenneth
R. Wilson Business Press
Awards.
David McKie is an awardwinning journalist with
CBC News who depends
on access-to-information
and computer-assisted
reporting for his material.
His past stories include investigations into drug, food
and workplace safety, the
Toyota recall and marriages
of convenience. He was
part of a team that won
the Michener Award for its
coverage of Tasers. He also
teaches journalism at Carleton University, Algonquin
College, and the University
of King’s College.
Stacey McLeod is the
community manager for
Star Media Group (SMG
Digital) in Toronto. She
helped launch The Toronto
Star’s Speak Your Mind
website around the
2011 provincial election,
coordinating journalists,
experts and more than
200 community bloggers.
Previously, she reported
on the food, nightlife and
music scenes and was the
Toronto editor for the 2012
Zagat Survey. McLeod is a
graduate of Centennial College’s journalism program.
Sarah Millar is currently
the social media and community editor at OpenFile.
She started her career in
newspapers at the Hamilton Spectator when she
was 17 years old. Her work
has also been published
in the Ottawa Citizen, the
National Post and various
Sun Media papers. She
moved to the dark side of
digital full time after being
hired as a one-year intern
at The Toronto Star on their
web desk. She’s never
looked back.
John Moore is the host
of Moore in the Morning
on NewsTalk 1010 Radio
Toronto. He began his radio
career in 1986 and has also
worked in television and
film as an actor, reporter,
comedian and script writer.
His non-media time is
spent bicycling, drinking
single malt scotch and
tending to the demands of
a terrier dog.
Speaker Biographies
Brian Myles is a journalist
at Le Devoir and president
of the Fédération
professionelle des
journalistes du Québec
(FPJQ). The Federation was
engaged in an extensive
reflexion on certification
in the last two years,
following the creation of
a working group on the
future of information by
the minister of culture.
No other association of
reporters went farther
than the FPJQ on this issue;
86 per cent of its members
voted in favor of certification.
Dat Nguyen is president
of the Canadian Ethnic
Media Association and
founder and CEO of Thoi
Bao newspapers, which
serves a wide variety of
Vietnamese communities
across North America.
Nguyen began the printing company Webnews
Printing, with the initial
intent of printing Thoi Bao
publications, and has since
gone on to print more than
100 community and ethnic
newspapers in the GTA. In
2010, Nguyen became CEO
of Skylight Media, including the Uxbridge Standard.
Ron Nurwisah is news
editor at The Huffington
Post Canada, where he
helps cover the news of the
day and aggregates the
web for cute animal videos.
He has also been an online
editor at the National Post
and Torontoist, where
there was a sad lack of
cute animal content. As he
gets older, he’s starting to
regret his choice of twitter
handle. You can find him
on twitter @boyreporter.
Marlane Oliver joined
680News, shortly after it
launched. She was co-host
of the Afternoon Drive Show
and the Morning Show.
Oliver has won several
national and international
RTNDA awards including
the Edward R. Murrow.
Before joining Rogers,
Oliver was co-host of the
World This Morning and
the World at Noon at CFRB
1010, and producer of the
award-winning John Stall
programme. Oliver has
been awarded a Canadian
Women in Communications Fellowship.
Lauren O’Neil is a
web culture blogger,
multimedia journalist and
Canadian TV personality
and an active member of
Toronto’s Twitterati. As an
associate producer on the
Social Media and Community team at CBCNews.ca,
O’Neil shares her passion
for writing, video production and social media with
CBC’s audience online. Her
work prior to joining the
CBC includes positions with
MTV Canada, The Toronto
Star, Yahoo! Canada, MuchMusic.com, CosmoTV and
Entrinsic.
Michael OReilly is the
founding president of the
Canadian Freelance Union
as well as being a working
writer and journalist for
over 20 years. As a freelancer, his articles have appeared in many of Canada’s
major magazines and
newspapers. He has been
a columnist, feature writer,
and editor, as well as radio
writer and journalist for
CBC Radio. Parallel to this
professional career, OReilly
has carried on an equally
busy life fighting for the
rights of self-employed
media workers.
Jeffrey L. Orridge is the
executive director of sports,
CBC Sports. He was most
recently chief operating
officer and head of Global
Business Development for
Right to Play International.
Orridge also served as the
head of legal and business
affairs for the first U.S.
Olympic basketball Dream
Team, overseeing
marketing, licensing,
sponsorship, advertising
and product development,
which received the 1992
Sports Marketer of the Year
award.
Angela Pacienza is the
director of online news
at The Canadian Press.
Pacienza helped launch
the online video service
in 2006. In that role she
oversees video coverage
plans and gives direction
to reporters shooting in
the field. She also provides
training on other aspects of
online reporting including
social media. Previously,
she covered the Ontario
legislature. From 20012005 she was an entertainment and consumer tech
beat reporter.
Janice Paskey teaches
online and magazine
journalism at Mount Royal
University in Calgary. She is
the urban affairs columnist
for Metro News Calgary,
and was named a Donald
W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism
Fellow for 2012. She is past
editor of Avenue magazine
in Calgary, web producer
for CTV News Calgary and
editor of the McGill Alumni
magazine. Her latest
academic publication is The
Alberta Oil Sands, Journalists and their Sources.
Momoko Price is the
communications director
of BuzzData, a web startup based in Toronto. A
former news media editor/
writer and current datajournalism enthusiast,
Price spends most of her
free time learning code and
converting other newbies
into data-lovers.
John Racovali is assistant
managing editor of the
National Post. His duties
include recruiting many
young journalists who
give the Post its bounce
today. Racovali began at
the Kenora Daily Miner
& News in 1982 and his
peripatetic career lurched
through Thunder Bay,
Winnipeg, Chatham, St.
John’s, Ottawa and Toronto.
He helped launch the Post
in 1998 as its founding
world editor and has since
worked as its national editor and chief news editor.
Emma Reilly spends her
days corralling councillors
as the Hamilton Spectator’s
City Hall reporter. She studied journalism at Ryerson
University. Before joining
the Spectator in 2009, she
worked as an intern at The
Canadian Press and in The
Toronto Star’s radio room.
She won the 2008 award
for novice reporting at the
Ontario Newspaper
Awards and was nominated for a 2010 ONA
for municipal affairs
reporting.
Speaker Biographies
Shauna Rempel is the
co-chair for the 2012 CAJ
conference. A graduate of
Carleton University’s MJ
program, she has done
various jobs at The Toronto
Star, including teaching
the finer points of social
media as the newsroom’s
Training & Development
editor. She has also incorporated social media into
her role on The Star’s Radar
Desk. You can find her on
Twitter (@shaunarempel)
Facebook, LinkedIn or
on her latest obsession,
Pinterest.
Christina Reynolds is
Elle Canada’s managing
editor. She has worked
as a journalist for more
than a decade covering
everything from business
and current events to
fashion and travel. She’s
been the editor-in-chief of
city magazine CalgaryInc, a
newspaper writer and copy
editor with the Calgary
Herald, and a television
producer with CTV and
BNN.
Keith Robinson has been
exploring online communities since 1985 when he
made his father bring a
300 baud modem home
from work so he could log
onto local bulletin boards
and run up huge fees on
Compuserve. A graduate of
Carleton University’s Master of Journalism program,
he worked on TVOntario’s
live nightly current affairs
program Studio 2 as a
producer, Daily Assignment
Editor and Acting Series
Producer. In 2006, he
moved to TVO’s Digital and
Interactive Department.
Hugo Rodrigues is the
president of the Canadian
Association of Journalists.
A multimedia journalist at the Expositor in
Brantford, Ont., he joined
the CAJ board in 2005.
He’s served as the CAJ’s
inaugural communications
co-coordinator, webmaster
and vice-president, in
addition to being the CAJ’s
representative on the National Newspaper Awards
board of governors.
Ellen Roseman has been
writing about business
since 1972. She covered the
retail beat at the Financial
Post, then a weekly paper,
before starting her current
focus on personal finance,
investing and consumer
advocacy. She was a Globe
and Mail columnist from
1975-1996. Roseman
moved to The Toronto Star
as business editor for two
years and is now a fulltime business columnist
and blogger. She also
teaches classes in investing
for beginners at UofT’s
continuing ed department.
Lawrence S. (Al) Rosen
founded Rosen & Associates Limited in 1990. He
has consulted or given
independent opinions on
hundreds of litigationrelated engagements.
Rosen is the author or
co-author of books and
texts on accounting. He
has been a professor of
accounting at UBC, the
University of Washington,
U of A, and York University.
For 15 years he served
as a technical advisor to
three Auditors’ General of
Canada.
Paul Saguil practises
litigation and has appeared
before courts in Ontario,
the Supreme Court, the
Federal Court, and various
administrative bodies. He
served as a clerk to the
Hon. Justice Phelan of the
Federal Court before being
called to the Ontario bar
in 2008. He has published
academic articles on the
subject of legal ethics and
wrongful conviction review, and is a co-author of
the chapter The Authorized
Provision of Legal Services
by Non-Lawyers.
Craig Saila specializes in
online news media with a
unique focus on creating
engaging products and
user experiences for
content-rich sites; for more
than a decade, he has led
teams designing and
developing for North America’s leading news sites. In
fall 2010, he rejoined The
Globe and Mail as director
of digital products after
working for a number of
years with msnbc.com
guiding the web design and
development of NBC News’
network of sites.
Martin Seto is an industry
blogger on Masthead, the
B2B website for the magazine industry where he
writes a Gadget Blog that
explores how technology
is changing the magazine
landscape. Prior to that,
Seto was on the ad agency
side where he worked with
clients such as Motorola,
Nabisco, Smirnoff and Ford.
He is a digital publishing
expert and is the country
manager for Texterity in
Canada, a leading digital
publishing technology
company.
Michelle Shephard is the
national security reporter
for The Toronto Star and
has covered issues of
terrorism and civil rights in
the decade since 9/11. Her
reporting has taken her to
Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan
and Guantanamo Bay. She
has won Canada’s top two
newspaper awards: the
National Newspaper Award
for investigations and
beats, and the GovernorGeneral’s Michener
Award for public service
journalism.
Tim Shore is the founder
of blogTO, Toronto’s most
widely read news and culture blog and the largest
site of its kind in Canada.
Before founding the site
in 2004, Tim worked for
a number of advertising agencies and Web
design firms overseeing
ad campaigns and digital
initiatives for well known
brands such as Yahoo! and
Microsoft. He started his
web and media career as
a latte-fetching intern at
CNN in New York.
Speaker Biographies
David Skok is a Nieman
Journalism Fellow at
Harvard University, the first
digital journalist in Canada
selected for this honor. He
began working at Global
News in 2003, helping to
create and produce several
of the station’s leading
news programs and special
events. In 2009, Skok cocreated the GlobalNews.
ca. As managing editor, he
oversees all the editorial
coverage of local, national
and international events,
and pioneered many ways
of telling stories and utilizing open data.
Graeme Smith covered
the Afghan war for The
Globe and Mail, spending
more time in southern
Afghanistan during that
period than any other
Western journalist. His
series of online videos and
print articles, Talking to the
Taliban, which featured
42 interviews with Taliban
fighters, won an Emmy
Award in 2009. A leading
expert on the insurgency,
he lectures widely, and
serves as an Adjunct
Scholar at the U.S. Naval
Postgraduate School in
Monterey, Calif.
Vivian Smith is the associate editor of Boulevard
magazine in Victoria, B.C.
and a PhD candidate at the
University of Victoria. Her
research looks at women
in print journalism, with
a focus on those issues
that women say influence
their career experiences
over time. She spent 14
years at The Globe and Mail
in Toronto, as a reporter,
columnist, editor and
manager. Since moving
to Victoria, she has been
a university journalism
instructor, media trainer
and editorial consultant.
Ward Smith began his
journalism career as an
editorial assistant at Global
Toronto. Smith spent six
years working in various
positions within the Global
Toronto newsroom before
moving to Halifax to work
as a national correspondent with First National,
later becoming supervising producer for Global
Maritimes. Smith returned
to Global Toronto in 2006.
Under Smith’s leadership
Global Toronto has won
several RTNDA awards
including the 2010 Bert
Cannings award.
Stephanie Smyth leads
the CP24 Breaking News
Desk and is the senior
breaking news producer in
charge of all breaking news
special production. With
over 20 years of news and
news programming experience to her credit, the
native Torontonian Smyth
is an award-winning
media veteran who brings
a wealth of experience to
her work in the radio and
television industry to the
CP24 team.
Amar Sodhi produces
CityNews at Six. He has
worked on news stories
for major local and
international events
including the G-20 summit
in Toronto and the 2009 Air
France crash. Sodhi was
also part of the CityNews
team that received a
Gemini Award for best
breaking news for their
coverage of the tornado that touched down in
Vaughan in 2009. He then
worked as a videographer
and assignment editor in
the Oshawa bureau of CBC
affiliate CHEX TV.
Robert Steiner is director
of the Fellowships In Global
journalism at the Munk
School of Global Affairs,
University of Toronto.
Steiner began his career
as a global finance correspondent for The Wall
Street Journal. Steiner has
also held a number of
senior campaign positions
in Canadian politics.
He served as health
policy advisor and principal
speechwriter for Hon.
Paul Martin. Steiner also
worked for Prime Minister
Jean Chretien.
Gary Symons is an awardwinning journalist turned
tech guru. He worked for
16 years as a newspaper
reporter and editor, covering crime, courts, native
affairs, and investigative
reporting. Symons became
the first journalist in
Canada trained to provide
coverage simultaneously
for TV, radio, and online. He
left CBC in 2008 to found
VeriCorder Technology.
Today, VeriCorder produces
the most advanced system
in the world for creating
content in the field.
Richard Tardif lives in
Montreal, and is an
award-winning journalist
who wrote about politics,
news, sports and First
Nations affairs. He is
presently the executive
director of the Quebec
Community Newspapers
Association, a photographer and an editor for
several news and sports
web sites. He is writing a
book about what it means
to be a Canadian reporter
practising journalism in a
First Nations community in
Canada.
Lisa Taylor holds both an
LLB and a Master of Laws
from Schulich School of
Law, Dalhousie University.
Taylor spent a decade with
CBC Radio & Television in a
wide range of journalistic
roles. After attaining her
law degree, Taylor returned
to CBC, ultimately becoming a network justice and
legal affairs specialist. In
2005 she left the CBC once
more to teach journalism
and practise law. Taylor
currently teaches print,
video and digital journalism at Ryerson University.
Elizabeth Thompson
has covered Parliament
and Quebec’s National
Assembly at the Montreal
Gazette and now at
iPolitics. She has received
two National Newspaper
Award citations of merit
and was part of a team
that won the Southam
President’s prize for coverage of the Polytechnique
massacre. Thompson is also
secretary of the Canadian
Parliamentary Press Gallery
and has served for the
past two years on the CAJ’s
board.
Kelly Toughill is the
director of the University
of King’s College School
of Journalism. Toughill
worked at The Toronto Star
for 20 years, and was deputy executive editor when
she left in 2006. Toughill
is the architect of King’s
new graduate program in
digital journalism, which
focuses on emerging business models and new story
forms. She is the recipient
of several national journalism awards, including a
National Newspaper Award
for feature writing.
Speaker Biographies
Fred Vallance-Jones is
assistant professor of journalism at the University of
King’s College. He administers the annual national
freedom of information
audit on behalf of Newspapers Canada, part of a
wider research interest into
the working of Canada’s access laws. Vallance-Jones is
also a leading authority on
data journalism, and leads
the annual King’s Summer
School in Data Journalism.
He has received numerous
journalism awards, including a National Newspaper
Award.
Gina Valle is a board
member of the Canadian
Ethnic Media Association.
Her work addresses issues
of multiculturalism in the
field of education. Valle’s
doctoral work brought her
into French and English
inner-city schools in
Montreal, where she
worked alongside teachers.
Valle is a writer, educator,
the director and producer
of the documentary The
Last Rite, the editor of the
book Our Grandmothers
Ourselves and the curator
of the photo exhibit
Legacies.
Jennifer Verma is the
director of the Collaboration for Innovation and
Improvement at Canadian
Health Services Research
Foundation. She brings
expertise in applied
health services research
and experience in sharing
and spreading evidenceinformed healthcare
solutions. Verma has
developed and led a variety
of knowledge exchange
products at CHSRF, most
notably for the TV show
Mythbusters.
David Walmsley is The
Globe and Mail’s managing editor. He has held
executive news roles at all
of Canada’s major news
outlets. He has touched on
the most important files
of recent times, including
the protection of sources
and issues of national
security. In July last year,
he successfully completed
an investigation into the
worst peacetime accident
in the Royal Air Force’s history when a posthumous
gross negligence finding
against the two pilots was
withdrawn.
Stephen J. A. Ward is a
professor and the director
of ethics at the School
of Journalism and Mass
Communication at the
University of WisconsinMadison and is the
founding chair of the Ethics
Advisory Committee of
the Canadian Association
of Journalists. Ward is also
the author of numerous
ethics books, including the
award-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics:
The Path to Objectivity and
Beyond and is the media
ethics columnist for several
leading publications.
Robert Washburn is a
professor in new journalism at Loyalist College,
where he teaches the uses
of new technologies in
journalism. He launched
the Canadian Hyperlocal
Journalism Project aimed
at building resources to
assist those interested in
this emerging area and is
managing editor of the
Qnet News, the college’s
web-based newspaper.
Washburn recently was
presented The Educational
Technology Committee
2007 award for Innovative
Teaching with Technology.
Martin White is a consultant to the magazine industry. He has worked with
over 50 magazines across
Canada in addressing their
editorial, circulation, and
advertising needs. He helps
them in the transition from
a traditional print business
model to incorporating
innovative programs and
revenue models integrating traditional media with
new media. His current
clients include Green Living,
CMA Canada, Canadian
Woodworking, Musicworks,
and Magazines Canada.
Scott White has been
editor-in-chief of The
Canadian Press since
1997. He manages the
editorial operations of the
English service for Canada’s
national news service.
White has overseen the
integration of the print and
broadcast divisions of The
Canadian Press and the
introduction of a new video
service. Prior to becoming
editor-in-chief, White was
CP’s general news editor,
chief of pictures, Vancouver
bureau chief and Washington correspondent.
William Wolfe-Wylie is
the social media manager
for QMI Agency’s English
language publications.
Before that, he helped to
build the QMI Agency wire
service as Sun Media parted ways with The Canadian
Press, and was national
bureau chief for Canadian
University Press. He has
spent the past five years
teaching a generation of
journalists who built their
careers on paper to begin
trusting the Internet with
their livelihoods.
Kyle Carsten Wyatt is
the Walrus’ managing
editor. He has a doctorate from the University
of Toronto, where he has
taught courses in American
and Indigenous literatures.
Between 2006 and 2010,
he managed submissions
and blind reviews forStudies in American Indian
Literatures. His work has
appeared in The Papers
of the Bibliographical
Society of Canada, Journal
of American Studies, Great
Plains Quarterly,and South
Dakota History.
Lara Zarum started as an
intern at Eye Weekly shortly
before it morphed into The
Grid. In addition to writing
for the magazine, she is
The Grid’s production editor
and internship coordinator.
Zarum studied English at U
of T and the University of
Edinburgh and has written
for The Globe and Mail and
Toronto Film Scene.
Madeline Ziniak is the
national vice president of
Rogers OMNI Television.
She has received the Order
of Canada, and the Order of
Ontario, as well as numerous community, government, and industry related
honours. She is the current
chair (Ontario Region) of
the Canadian Broadcast
Standards Council, the vice
chair of Women in Film and
Television – Toronto. Ziniak
is a founding member of
the Strategic Alliance of
Broadcasters for Aboriginal
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