http://www.scribblelive.com List of the most recent events on J-Source Live Copyright 2012 ScribbleLive http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 5 2:00 PM Under Fire: Journalists in Combat is a new Canadian documentary that explores post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and substance abuse among war correspondents.

Tonight's discussion will focus on the changing nature of covering war, the psychological costs of war reporting, and the need for change in newsroom culture to help detect and address the problems correspondents face.

Dr. Anthony Feinstein, Murray Brewster, Matthew Fisher and Lisa Laflamme will talk about these issues. Tony Burman moderates.
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6:49 PM Speaking on the panel tonight is Dan Dunsky, Andrew Lundy, Jennifer MacMillan and Rachel Nixon. Wilf Dinnick will be moderating.
6:49 PM As for a little bit about each of the panelists...
6:50 PM Dan Dunsky is the Executive Producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO’s flagship public affairs program. Beyond broadcast, he has written extensively for The Globe and Mail, National Post, and Toronto Star, and for the National Interest, National Review, and the Weekly Standard in the U.S. Prior to joining TVO, he was a marketing and communications consultant.
6:52 PM Andrew Lundy is the Director of Globalnews.ca, where he heads a team of people running 11 local sites, a national site, and dedicated show sites. Before joining Global, he was Editor-in-Chief at MSN Canada. Andrew started his online journalism career in 1998 as a web producer for CBC TV's Marketplace, and later created CBC.ca's Consumer zone. He moved to CBC Sports Online in 2000 as its senior producer. Prior to CBC, Andrew was an award-winning newspaper reporter for the St. Catharines Standard and the Financial Post.
6:53 PM Jennifer MacMillan is The Globe and Mail's senior communities editor, working with readers and journalists to foster interaction. Live discussions, comments, Twitter and Facebook are just a few ways they do that. She has also worked as a reporter and online news editor at The Globe.
6:54 PM Rachel Nixon is Director of Digital Media for CBC News and Centres, where she spearheads the strategic direction of CBC News on digital platforms. Rachel has led the successful redevelopment and relaunch of CBCNews.ca with a sharpened audience focus and a mandate to experiment with new forms of digital storytelling. She is responsible for CBC News’ mobile strategy, creating engaging news experiences for mobile devices, including the CBC News app. Prior to joining CBC in 2009, she was Global News Director for Vancouver-based start-up NowPublic.com where she ran the editorial operations of the world’s largest participatory news network. Before moving to Canada in 2007, Rachel was one of the first employees at BBCNews.com in London, UK. Rachel is a fellow of the Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute in LA, and holds a first-class honours degree from Oxford University.
6:56 PM And moderating is Wilf Dinnick who is the founding editor and CEO of OpenFile, a network of local online, collaborative news sites. Prior to OpenFile, Wilf had the good fortune to report from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe and all over the Middle East. He covered the war in Iraq, Afghanistan's first democratic elections, the South Asia tsunami, the death of Pope John Paul II and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Wilf is an award-winning journalist and has worked for all three Canadian networks. He was also an International Correspondent for CNN and the Middle East Correspondent for ABC News.
7:00 PM We'll be getting underway in just a couple of minutes.
7:05 PM Bob Lewis, chair of the CJF, is getting the forum underway now.
7:07 PM Introducing participatory journalism, Lewis mentions John Paton's open newsroom in the U.S. "Scary stuff" for old-time newspaper editors, he jokes.
7:08 PM Innovations "confronting" traditional journalism include things such as social media–as in the example of Mayor Nenshi in Calgary– and bloggers–such as those who are "keeping Toronto City Hall honest."
7:09 PM Lewis introduces Wilf Dinnick, our moderator for the evening and founding editor and CEO of OpenFile–a news outlet that hinges on participation.
7:11 PM "How do you monetize participation? How do you not denigrate your brand trying to drive participation?" Are some of the questions Dinnick is asking, noting the fact that videos of cats drive pageviews, to much delight of the crowd.
7:13 PM Dinnick: Journalists often reflect & talk about what works and what doesn't–now, for the first time, we are getting feedback #cjfforum
7:14 PM Dinnick is now introducing our panel, whose bios were laid our earlier.
7:15 PM "Working with journalists can be like herding cats," so it's impressive what Nixon does, says Dinnick.
7:17 PM Dinnick on trying to change things–such as introducing participation. "Working in a big company, feels like you're being waterboarded every day. Working in a small company, feels like you're being punched in the face every day."
7:17 PM Dan Dunsky will be presenting first
7:18 PM Dunsky, once again, is the executive producer for TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
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5:41 PM We're at Massey College in Toronto discussing a new study on the psychological health of Mexican journalists that underscores the deadly realities of day-to-day reporting in a country beset by a deadly drug war.
5:44 PM Dr. Anthony Feinstein, a neuropsychiatrist who is considered to be the leading authority on post-traumatic stress in journalists, and who was recently highlighted in the Academy Award short-listed film Under Fire: Journalists in Combat, is here to talk about the issue tonight.
5:46 PM Luis Horacio Najera, an exiled Mexican journalist living in Canada, Michelle Shephard, a seasoned national securitiy reporter for the Toronto Star, and Rick MacInnes-Rae, host and co-creator of CBC's Dispatches sit on the panel to discuss the topic as well.
5:46 PM And of course, Brian Stewart, who is one of Canada's most seasoned war correspondents, moderates this evening.
5:51 PM The discussion will be getting underway at 6:30, so stay tuned!
6:27 PM Yes, yes we are. Associate editor Belinda Alzner is in the Upper Library at Massey College for this discussion put on by the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, sponsored by the International News Safety Institute.
6:34 PM Brian Stewart is kicking off the evening. Notes that wars are widespread but we're going to focus on Mexico tonight.
6:35 PM Fact: INSI has provided safety training -- free of charge -- to over 2,000 in conflict zones around the world. #mexjrntrauma
6:37 PM Stewart is introducing Michelle Shephard. In case you don't know her:

She 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 among other places to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan and two dozen times behind the wire in Guantanamo Bay. She has won the National Newspaper Award for investigations and beats; and the Governor-General’s Michener Award for public service journalism. She is the author of Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr, published in 2008 and Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone , published in September 2011.
6:38 PM Now, Luis Horacia Najera:

He is currently living in Canada as a journalist in exile. His reporting on organized crime, illegal immigration, arms trafficking and police corruption in Mexico has garnered him international recognition, but also placed him and his family at great risk. His employers, the prominent publishing group Reforma, kept his name off his stories which were bylined simply as “Staff Reporter.” Finally in 2008, after writing a story on a massacre at a drug rehab centre, both the military and gangs set their sights on him, which he has described as being "caught between two fires." After receiving numerous death threats directed at both him and his family, he was forced to leave the country and has settled in Canada. Luis is a recipient of the 2010 CJFE International Press Freedom Award and is a 2011-2012 CJFE/Scotiabank Massey College Journalism Fellow.
6:39 PM Next up, Stewart introduces Rick MacInnes-Rae, of CBC's Dispatches:

He is the host and co-creator of the CBC's award-winning international affairs program "Dispatches," which began airing in 2001.

It's his latest assignment in a thirty-five year career that's taken him to 68 countries from Albania to Bosnia, Chechnya, El Salvador, Haiti, Kosovo, Rwanda, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Zaire, and Zimbabwe.


After frequent foreign secondments in the 80s and early 90s, including the Reagan White House and the Gulf War, Rick served as London Correspondent for CBC Radio News for six years in the 90s, often covering conflicts in Bosnia, Chechyna, the Middle East and Zimbabwe.


His work has won numerous provincial, national and international awards including multiple citations from the Prix Bayeux, a competition in France recognising war correspondents who "excel under perilous conditions."
6:40 PM Before he introduces Dr. Anthony Feinstein, Stewart is going to show us a brief video clip. It's an excerpt from: “A Country at War with Itself” – reporter Keith Boag, producer Carmen Merrifield, camera Mike Heenan, editor Claude Panet-Raymond. Originally broadcast on The National on March 5th.
6:40 PM The clip is about 8 minutes long and will be graphic.
6:42 PM The clip is describing drug cartels that murder not only other gang members, but innocent civilians as well.
6:44 PM For those who would like to see the clip, it can be found on YouTube, here.
6:47 PM "This is what happens when Marines do police work," Boag says. We see heavily armed, intimidating Marines at a home of a man who killed a police officer. The Marines are wearing masks in order to protect their identity from those in the cartels.
6:48 PM The Marines' rhetoric suggests that they're winning this war against drugs. But many disagree.
6:49 PM Guns in Mexico are such a problem not because of the US, but because Mexican customs let them get by, the clip suggests.
6:49 PM And now, Stewart is introducing Dr. Anthony Feinstein.
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9:52 AM As with yesterday, Belinda Alzner and Rhiannon Russell will be live blogging and live tweeting from today's discussions.
9:53 AM The first session of today is titled, "Getting away with secrecy: What’s going on here and why is it happening?"

Provocateur: Peter Klein (University of British Columbia)

Panelists:
Suzanne Craig (Integrity Commissioner, City of Vaughan)
Linden MacIntyre (CBC, the fifth estate)
Fred Vallance-Jones (University of King’s College)
Bruce Gillespie (Wilfrid Laurier University)
10:03 AM RT @rhrussell: First panel is on secrecy. With Suzanne Craig, Linden MacIntyre, Fred Vallance-Jones, Bruce Gillespie #freepresscda
10:03 AM
10:05 AM
10:08 AM Correction: Ivor Shapiro is our provocateur. Not Peter Klein, as previously stated, and as the program states. #freepresscda
10:09 AM Klein is on Skype with us now and will be speaking on the panel, just not moderating. #freepresscda
10:14 AM Linden MacIntyre, co-host of the fifth estate is first. Shapiro spends a couple mins describing his achievements. #freepresscda
10:16 AM MacIntyre on "courthouse culture:" how do you get documents you are entitled to have when clerks say no? #freepresscda
10:18 AM MacIntyre: The case went to the Supreme Court. They won. #freepresscda
10:21 AM MacIntyre: over the years, courthouse culture creeps into everything - it always matters who you deal with, despite right #freepresscda
10:22 AM RT @Listen2Lisa: Even if you already know the SCC MacIntyre case there's nothing like hearing the story fr Linden MacIntyre himself. #fr ...
10:24 AM MacIntyre: with the freedoms we have as rights, comes responsibility. Propaganda machines are springing up in public sector #freepresscda
10:24 AM MacIntyre: and the government is making it harder to get info. And the public is just sleeping. (Shapiro is nodding along) #freepresscda
10:28 AM Fred Vallance-Jones is up next. Shapiro cuts off intro after long list of achievements, including CAR, FOI and investigative #freepresscda
10:30 AM FVJ: secrecy is a long-standing tradition in Canadian parliamentary govt. 30 years ago, there was a law passed to challenge it #freepresscda
10:32 AM RT @rhrussell: V-J: though it's the 30th anniversary of the Charter, nothing's changed. #freepresscda
10:34 AM FVJ: the media, interest groups, opp. politicians are subject to most barriers in FOI. #freepresscda
10:37 AM FVJ: 30% of media requests are abandoned. His research shows while media doesn't make a ton of requests, theirs take longer #freepresscda
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10:18 AM Alice Klein du magazine NOW: "notre gouvernement actuel est menace pour la liberté d'expression" #freepresscda
10:19 AM Klein s'inquiète de l'impact de la Loi antiterroriste sur la liberté d'expression #freepresscda
10:23 AM Klein: face à un gouv. hostile à l'égard de nos droits, nos médias en crise ont-ils les moyens de se battre? #freepresscda
10:36 AM Daniel Henry (avocat, CBC) déplore les entraves à l'accès aux tribunaux, aux plaidoiries et aux jugements #freepresscda
10:37 AM Henry cite le Québec en exemple. Les caméras y sont permises dans les tribunaux, mais avec encadrement t.co #freepresscda
10:40 AM Henry cite le Québec en exemple. Les caméras y sont permises dans les tribunaux, mais avec encadrement t.co #freepresscda
10:45 AM J.Gomery du CPQ: les conseils de presse améliorent le journalisme en encourageant la liberté d'expression et de l'excellence #freepresscda
10:48 AM John Gomery: adhésion obligatoire des médias au Conseil de presse en dernier recours #freepresscda
10:48 AM Gomery: pour la liberté de presse, l'autorégulation est préférable, ça doit demeurer la plan A #freepresscda
10:48 AM Paula Todd, j d'enquête, déplore que les entreprises abandonnent les CP créant un vide propice à l'intervention de l'État #freepresscda
10:51 AM Daniel Henry (avocat CBC): se sent seul à se battre pour l'accès des caméras dans les tribunaux #freepresscda
10:51 AM Daniel Henry: "le public veut voir ce qui se passe dans nos tribunaux, il a le droit de savoir" #freepresscda
11:00 AM Todd et Cooke soulignent la quasi impossibilité pour les journalistes d'entrer dans les prisons avec une caméra #freepresscda
11:02 AM Michael Cooke (Tor. Star): trop de déférence des journalistes à l'égard des élites; on tolère le secret #freepresscda
12:11 PM 2e conf: "Press Freddom and expression of opinion" avec Gargaret wente, Susan Riley et Kamal Al-Solaylee #freepresscda
12:12 PM Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail: "la pire menace à la liberté de presse et d'expression, c'est notre autocensure" #freepresscda
12:13 PM Wente: autocensure sur le drame des réserves autochtones de peur d'être étiquetés racistes #freepresscda
12:13 PM Wente estime que les médias ont manqué d'esprit critique à l'égard des Indignés, idem à l'égard des mouvements écologistes #freepresscda
12:23 PM Susan Riley, Ottawa Citizen: Le véritable problème c'est l'accès à l'information. Notre gouv. a une culture du secret #freepressCda
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9:59 AM J-Source's associate editor Belinda Alzner and Students' Lounge editor Rhiannon Russell will be bringing you live coverage from the conference over the next two days.
10:00 AM While April Lindgren is doing introductions, let me introduce the first panel.
10:01 AM It's a panel titled "Press Freedom: Where are we now?" and is moderated by Paula Todd of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.

Panelists include:
Michael Cooke (Editor, Toronto Star)
Alice Klein (Chief Executive Officer, Editor, NOW Magazine)
Daniel Henry (Senior legal counsel, CBC)
John Gomery (President, Quebec Press Council)
10:05 AM
10:08 AM Michael Cooke, editor (or as Paula Todd referred to him as, editor-in-chief) of Toronto Star is speaking first.
10:09 AM Cooke: The Charter isn't cherished by Canadians.
10:10 AM Cooke: Journalists are trapped by the elite of people who run professions.
10:14 AM Cooke: We have a long way to go for press freedom - cites access requests re: Ford 911 calls as elite being protected #freepresscda
10:21 AM RT @rhrussell: @jsource RT "@marissatiel Our live blog coverage of #freepresscda here: j-press.fcad.ryerson.ca"
10:21 AM RT @NicoleBlanchett: #freepresscda govt heading "right for the gonads" of people trying to do good work says Klein
10:24 AM Klein: future generations are going to look back on the conversation about climate denial as an example of media mediocrity #freepresscda
10:31 AM RT @rhrussell: Henry: 1994 Dagenais case important for media & publication bans. Right to freedom of exp & right to a fair trial are equ ...
10:31 AM RT @rhrussell: But, Henry points out, court proceedings are still often placed under v. strict publication bans. #freepresscda
10:33 AM Daniel Henry: cameras in court is a 2(b) right but it really doesn't exist outside of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and sometimes Nfld. #freepresscda
10:39 AM Gomery: Press councils have no real power, but they aid freedom of expression regardless
10:41 AM RT @rhrussell: Role of press council is to advocate for free press. No members except pres are paid. #freepresscda
10:41 AM RT @MaryNersessian: John Gomery: I'm afraid gov't regulation of journalistic profession might stifle free expression #freepresscda
10:42 AM RT @adamson_ryerson: #freepresscda overall CBC's counsel Daniel Henry strikes the same theme as Klein but he talks about restrictions in ...
10:46 AM Paula Todd: We are heading backward in press freedom. "What is wrong with Canada?"
Continue...]]> http://live.j-source.ca/Event/Press_Freedom_in_Canada_Conference_at_Ryerson_University http://live.j-source.ca/Event/Press_Freedom_in_Canada_Conference_at_Ryerson_University Belinda Alzner Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:54:21 +0000 7:42 PM Hi everyone, welcome to our live coverage of the CJF Forum with John Paton, "Digital First. Print Last."

The forum will be starting in about 20 minutes.
7:47 PM So, how tonight will work: Paton will talk about his digital first strategy for about 20 minutes. After that, Douglas Knight, president of St. Joseph Media, will talk with Paton further about this strategy. The forum will conclude with a question and answer period with the audience here at the TMX Broadcast Centre.
7:48 PM For those following along online, you can also ask questions tagged with the hashtag #cjfforum. CJF staff here will be following that feed and picking questions from it to ask Paton.
7:56 PM For those unfamiliar, the title of this event totally gives away John Paton's strategy: "Digital First, Print Last."

Paton is a 36-year newspaper veteran, so he's not disrespecting the medium by any means. He started in the 70s as a copy boy for the Toronto Sun before becoming its police reporter. He went on to lead major media organizations such as Sun Media, and was instrumental in its sale to Quebecor over a decade ago.
7:57 PM He is the founder of impreMedia, the largest news and information company for Hispanics in the United States. In April 2009, he was named Publisher of the Year by Editor and Publisher for his accomplishments with impreMedia.
7:59 PM Paton's current role is that of CEO of Digital First Media -- a media company that owns both the Journal Register Company and MediaNews Group. Together, those compose more than 800 digital and print products in 18 states serving 57 million customers -- meaning, readers, unique visitors and mobile perusers.

Correction: Digital First operates the other two media companies.
8:00 PM Our associate editor, Belinda Alzner, got to sit down with Paton today ahead of the event and pick his brain on all things digital. Check out her exclusive interview.
8:00 PM John Paton sits down with J-Source
8:03 PM Bob Lewis, chair of the Canadian Journalism Foundation is starting things off.
8:03 PM Thanks Sam :)
8:06 PM
8:07 PM "All bets are off" when it comes to Doug Knight's questioning of Paton tonight.
8:08 PM Said tongue in cheek -- at least in part. Knight and Paton are former partners in journalism.
8:08 PM "John is not unfamiliar with either taking punches, or throwing them," says Doug Knight. #cjfforum
8:11 PM A few months ago, David Carr of the New York Times wrote a profile of Paton, where a competitor of Paton praised him, saying, "He’s a real news guy, not some corporate windbag.”
8:13 PM "I'm old media," says John Paton, after Knight's introduction that outlined Paton's illustrious career.
8:14 PM Paton's first day at the Toronto Sun was with a whole lotta drunk -- he got the job for taking a photo of a drunk columnist, got the job of someone who was fired for being drunk (not the columnist!), and his first night on the job, took his editor home dead drunk.
8:15 PM Paton says conferences that declare print is still alive are akin to aging actresses in Stratford that claim they can still play Juliette. #cjfforum
8:18 PM Counting jobs lost in newspapers is no longer possible. However, this isn't the case in Canada -- yet.
8:19 PM Let's debunk some myths! Number one: "Print is coming back."
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10:26 AM Opening keynote is Alan K'Necht, founder and CEO of Always Digital Media in Toronto.
10:26 AM He's talking about how social media hasn't changed over the years -- since the printing press -- just the medium.
10:29 AM
10:37 AM Alan K'Necht is done, finishes by saying don't measure social media success based on size, but rather on community engagement an balance -- pushing out too much content can have a negative impact.
10:40 AM Sam Fiorella is now talking corporate return on investment of social media.
10:41 AM We'll see how much is focused for news organizations and update accordingly.
10:49 AM One audience member brought up the point that it's hard to measure what social media brings when it is a one-way street -- ie when news organizations simply broadcast content. It's an engagement tool, and if you're not using it as such, it's hard to measure what social media is doing for you.
10:59 AM What I can get from this is that news organizations need to figure out if social media engagement is making your readers more loyal or resulting in them sharing your content with others.
11:14 AM Interesting analogy about boomers and gen x'ers: boomers given pen and paper, gen x told to use phones, laptops, iPads, etc. watched a presentation, given a test. Presenter thought boomers were more engaged, listening more intently, but gen x scored much higher on comprehension test after presentation.
11:16 AM Basically, by not embracing social sphere, organizations will miss out on smart ideas and useful things that can help.
11:53 AM We are back from break - next up is breaking out of ordinary social media with Ric Dragon, CEO of DragonSearch
11:58 AM Ric is talking about social media marketing campaigns and big media spin on products.
12:05 PM Here we go: Ric Dragon talking about transmedia - there needs to be continuity in stories. Storytelling needs to be multifaceted
12:11 PM Basically, if you can tell stories via a number of different mediums it will reach a wider audience (seems obvious, but some traditional media has been slow to adapt to this idea)
12:35 PM David Adler and Fazila Nurani are here to talk about Facebook legal stuff.
12:36 PM Will keep updating if my mind doesn't explode.
12:37 PM Social media and Facebook has no boundaries which makes the law interesting to follow - but most legal framework is from California
12:41 PM There is a mix of federal and provincial laws for privacy in Canada - BC, Alta., QC, have their own privacy laws.
12:42 PM (not so) fun fact: only 15-20% of users change Facebook default privacy settings.
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7:36 PM
7:36 PM Hey, this is Matt Demers covering this event for J-Source! We're still in the opening stages here, but we should be starting any minute.
7:40 PM Correction: twenty minutes.
7:44 PM And I'm here w/ liveblogging, video team @MattDemers, @belindaalzner, and @danalacey
7:47 PM Here are the bios of our panelists and moderator for the evening:
7:47 PM
7:48 PM Robyn Doolittle is an urban affairs reporter with the Toronto Star covering local issues and local politics.
7:48 PM Royson James is the municipal affairs columnist for the Toronto Star. Before becoming a columnist, he covered municipal politics as a reporter for the Star.
7:48 PM
7:49 PM Marcus Gee is Toronto columnist for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Born in Toronto, he first worked as a reporter for The Province, Vancouver's morning newspaper. He spent four years in Asia in the early 1980s, the first three in Hong Kong as an editor, writer and correspondent for Asiaweek magazine, the last as a reporter for United Press International in Manila and Sydney. After returning to Canada, he worked as a foreign affairs writer at Maclean's magazine and as senior editor at the Financial Times of Canada. He joined the Globe in 1991 as an editorial writer and served as Editorial Page Editor from 2003 to 2006. His column on foreign affairs appeared on the Globe’s editorial pages for 13 years. He served as Asia-Pacific Business reporter from 2007 to 2009. He has won two National Newspaper Awards for his commentary. In 2002, Amnesty International gave him its annual John Humphrey award for human rights reporting. Among the events he has covered are the war in Kosovo, the violence in East Timor and the turmoil surrounding the overthrow of Indonesian President Suharto.
7:49 PM And our moderator, Jackson Proscow is Global Toronto's municipal affairs reporter. Jackson began his career at Shaw TV in Calgary. After graduating university, he worked as a reporter, producer, anchor and weatherman at Global in Lethbridge, Alberta. From there it was off to Global's sister station, CHCH in Hamilton as a reporter before moving to Global Toronto. Since his move to Toronto in January 2006, Jackson has been on the front lines of the region's biggest news stories; from the arrest of 17 terrorism suspects in Toronto, an the tense land dispute in Caledonia, to the crash of Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, New York and President Barack Obama's first visit to Ottawa.
7:50 PM
7:53 PM Sue-Ann Levy from Sun News broke her ankle and is no longer able to participate in tonight’s discussion, as was originally scheduled.
7:53 PM RT @natalieturvey: Send comments to #CJFforum during @JSource's liveblog of the Fear and Loathing at City Hall event bit.ly
7:55 PM So, in short, our panel: Robyn Doolittle, Royson James, Margus Gee and Jerry Agar. Jackson Proscow is our moderator for the evening.
7:57 PM For those unfamiliar with how things have gone down between Ford and the Star, J-Source summed it up here.
7:57 PM The Star published a story during Ford’s campaign that Ford, to this day, maintains is false. He wants a front-page apology. The Star says its sources have stuck by their stories, so it too maintains its stance. So, Ford has simply excluded the Star from all official releases.
7:58 PM It culminated in December with a doozy of a headline on the front page of the Star that read: “Doug Ford to Star: Drop dead.”
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Is government secrecy trumping transparency? Canada has a bad reputation when it comes to freedom of information. Our country fared poorly in a landmark 2008 study of 68 countries with FOI laws, and it was also ranked last in a 2011 University College of London study of five modern democracies. Even Canada's Information Commissioner admits the system is on life support. What’s behind the decline in compliance and the long delays?

Suzanne Legault, the Information Commissioner of Canada, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at access to information and privacy in Canada, the issues she faces and potential solutions to the problems. After her presentation, she will join a panel discussion with Jim Bronskill, an investigative journalist with The Canadian Press and Paul Schabas, a media lawyer with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto. The discussion will be moderated by veteran parliamentary reporter and columnist Hugh Winsor.
8:08 PM Winsor: journalists consider current government one of the most secret they have ever witnessed
8:16 PM As Hugh Winsor says, Harper's first piece of legislation was supposed to, in Harper's words, "change the way business is done in Ottawa forever." Winsor adds if he had to sum up the weakness of the Accountability Act in two words, they would be "Tony Clement"
8:16 PM Suzanne Legault is now up
8:17 PM Legault says it's not unusual for politicians for change their minds about gov't transparency depending on whether they are forming a gov't or whether they are in opposition
8:20 PM Legault has put up some statistics showing the government is taking longer to complete access to information requests. Since the first year the government began collecting such stats, 2003, the wait times have only increased -- every year
8:23 PM In 2009/10, information was completely disclosed in only 16 per cent of all requests requests filed. In most cases, information was only partially disclosed. When journalists say it's taking longer to release less information, says Legault, they're right.
8:23 PM There is no clear legislation that deals with deadlines and extensions, she adds
8:25 PM More requests are being exempted under section 15 of the legislation, which deals with national security, says Legault. In 1996/7, only 5 per cent of applications were turned down under this section. Now: more than 20 per cent
8:26 PM Legault:
Our legislative framework really is, in my view, antiquated
8:27 PM Legault: We need to have a principled approach to our legislation
8:29 PM Legault says this means we also need an appropriate public interest test, which allows us to weigh the benefits of disclosure against the harm

It's true, she adds, Canadians are not really aware of the access to information rights
8:29 PM Legault say we should also ensure the swift implementation of new records keeping policies
8:31 PM There has to be a vigorous enforcement of the act by the information commissioner, she adds. There are, says Legault, some complaint cases that are years old. She recently closed a 2004 case -- but she is closing more and more cases and the backlog is shrinking. "We're making strides," she says, "but boy there's a lot of work to do."
8:37 PM What role can journalists play, asks Legault. "I'd like journalists to go further ... I think journalists must be activists" We must, she says, be activists in the defence and promotion of a sound and healthy access to information regime in Canada.
8:40 PM It's no secret, says Legault, that fulfilled access to information requests often lead to the disclosure of mistakes and scandals. Governments, naturally, are reluctant to disclose this information, she adds. Legault says government leaders need courage of long term vision: when disclosure is made about mistakes, or wrongdoing, it creates long term trust in leadership. Why? Because mistakes are corrected, she says. There are mistakes and there will always be mistakes. What we want as citizens, she says, is for them to be disclosed, addressed and corrected.
8:42 PM We'll now hear from CP journalist Jim Bronskill
8:42 PM Bronskill: The federal access law is very useful, but it doesn't work as well as it should
8:43 PM The law itself is rather antiquated, Bronskill echoes. "It's 28 years old"
8:44 PM Bronskill:
I'm not here to pick on [Suzanne's] office or the system in general
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Panellists:

JOHN HONDERICH, chair of Torstar and former publisher of the Toronto Star
BRIAN MYLES, journalist with Le Devoir and president of the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec
JOHN OWEN, journalism professor at City University in London UK and former head of CBC Television News

Moderator:
JAMIE CAMERON, professor at York University’s Osgoode Law School
6:45 PM John Owen is up first
6:48 PM Owen says week of July 4th was when the phone hacking story a "dramatic and urgent story of interest" ... because it was then that it stopped being about celebrities and instead about the "absolute immorality and what journalists were prepared to do to get the story"
6:49 PM Owen re Milly Dowler story: "It was the one story that really turned this into a national crisis"
6:50 PM "Many dogs barked and didn't bark in the 18 months before this story" ... at last count something like 4,000 possible [hacking] subjects
6:52 PM Revelations that went beyond hackergate: one young journalist said of approximately 900 newspaper bylines talk on fingers and toes time I was telling the truth
6:54 PM Owen: "What to expect? Something well beyond the status quo of self-regulation in British press ... it will give way to something else, but it will stop short of anything that falls short of state regulation of the press ... likely an ombudsman or a press standards commission"
6:55 PM The question is how will we staff? How will we pay for it? These things [ombudsman office] are very expensive
6:56 PM The other question, adds Owen, is whether the victims of phone hacking will feel this is enough.
6:57 PM Brian Myles' turn now
6:57 PM There are 2,000 members of Quebec's federation of journalists, says Myles
6:58 PM Myles: "It might be shocking for you to hear it, but I stand for certification. Maybe even more shocking news: i'm going to be re-elected under that proposal"
6:58 PM We just want the state to give us the power to self-regular
6:59 PM Many people may think the NoTW scandal triggered it; it's been going on for the last four years
7:01 PM "I've never seen an issue in English media that's been so ... commented on, but so scarcely reported"
7:01 PM Members of the federation have to have most of their income, etc., from reporting activities, says Myles
7:02 PM You have to morally respect our code of ethics, he adds
7:03 PM If someone starts to make a mockery of reporting, there's nothing for us to step in, says Myles, but certification could change that
7:04 PM Reporters in Quebec are asking for this; this is something you have to understand
7:05 PM The federation issues a survey on certification; most journalists in Quebec said yes. Why, asked Myles? The answer: "We want to distinguish ourselves from other communicators"
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Meet the press
What does freedom of the press mean, and what does it add to freedom of expression? Who is a member of “the press” today, and who decides that question: journalists, courts, or legislatures? Should bloggers, tweeters and others be considered journalists?

Moderator: KATHY ENGLISH, Public Editor, The Toronto Star

Panellists:
MICHAEL GEIST, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
DOMINIQUE PAYETTE, Professeure agrégée, Départment d’information et de communication, Université de Laval
IVOR SHAPIRO, Chair, Ryerson University School of Journalism
9:26 AM English: These issues are much debated in Canada right now ... It's kind of heating up. I would suggest the lighting rod for this is a report out of Quebec that suggests distinct professional status for journalists and binding journalists to a code of ethics. I think we need to say from the start that the proposal has been much misunderstood and maligned ... We're lucky to begin our day with the source of information herself: Dominque Payette.
9:26 AM This is the first time Payette has spoken about this in Ontario
9:28 AM Payette: Who is a journalist you ask yourself? Please allow me to contextualize this project: The mission was vast. The question both complex and sensitive
9:28 AM Payette: The report was exceptionally well-received
in Quebec
9:29 AM Payette: Let me present our assessment of the general state of news in Quebec ... this is not a universal project. We have to say from the outset that the concentration of media ownership in Quebec is a problem.
9:30 AM Payette: We have seen that no gov't has seen intervention necessary or possible.
9:30 AM What tools do we have? Propose new coherent contract between journalists and government, and between journalists and employers. "With no surprise employers are not so hot on the idea"
9:32 AM Payette says part of source of crisis is sense advertisers don't want "general" news. In other words: public interest news, such as investigative journalism. Financing for this type of news no longer comes from advertising. For the past 100 years, she says, it worked: everyone made money and journalists could have ambitious projects published. But today, advertisers want targets, and have dropped out of general news game that does not meet such criteria.
9:33 AM As a result, this content -- public interest news -- is dropping, she says.
9:35 AM Payette says producers of information increasingly provide their content for free. Without some rather strong state intervention the production of original, focused, regional news will fade. In Quebec, she says, regional and local news is dying out -- don't have dailies in small regions like we do in Ontario, and rest of Canada
9:36 AM For those that believe news is a commercial product, like any other, this may be nothing serious. But studies have shown news plays a role in society, for instance, in political debate, she says.
9:36 AM As for original and local news in particular, serves as a mortar for civic involvement, she adds.
9:37 AM Great gaps in spread of information in Quebec
, she says. Not everyone has access to same technology. For instance: access to broadband.
9:39 AM Two big questions: How to preserve separation of state and media? How to ensure public funding supports public news?
9:42 AM Under her proposed structure, Payette says journalists would make the rules -- not government. If journalists were granted professional status, it would make it easier for the public to determine who is a journalist, she adds.
It would also provide vehicle to demand better employment conditions.
9:43 AM It's important to differentiate between a title and a professional body, which would require the entire industry to only hire "professional" journalists, which the report doesn't recommend,
says Payette.
9:44 AM Payette:
Would they have to have gone to journalism school [to be granted the title]? No, of course not.
9:44 AM I don't want to decide [who gets to be a journalist], I don't want the government to decide. Payette believes we have to keep the profession open to people of all status and backgrounds
9:45 AM Payette: The media would not be forced to adhere to the plan, but there would be strong financial incentives to do so.
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6:59 PM Here is a little bit more about our panellists:

ELENA CHERNEY is editor of The Globe and Mail's Report on Business. Cherney started at the Globe in 2007 as an editor in the Life section. Before joining the Globe, Cherney spent seven years covering Canadian business news as a Toronto-based correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. She has also worked as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette and the National Post. She is a two-time winner of the Edward Goff Penny prize for young journalists. Born in Victoria, B.C., Cherney grew up in Montreal and was educated at Yale University, where she studied English and history.

DAVID MOORCROFT is an award-winning communicator who has worked in the fields of public relations and journalism for 35 years. In 1979, he joined the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) where he eventually became Senior Vice-President of Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. He served as the firm’s chief spokesperson, and directed the public affairs strategy for three consecutive CEOs. After retiring from RBC in 2008, David started a consulting firm called Strategy2Communications, which helps companies create and translate organizational strategy to their various stakeholders.

And moderator:

AMANDA LANG is the senior business reporter for CBC News and co-host of CBC's business show The Lang And O'Leary Exchange. Previously, she was co-anchor of SqueezePlay, the Business News Network (BNN)'s nightly national talk show. Before returning to Canada and to BNN in 2002, Lang was an anchor and correspondent at CNN and its business network CNNfn in New York, where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange. She was the New York correspondent for the Financial Post in 1998 and 1999. During her years as a business reporter she has covered stock markets, the economy, financial instruments, the technology beat, Wall Street, Canadian and U.S. politics, and more.
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7:06 PM CJF chair Bob Lewis: Among the subject's covered tonight -- whether financial journalists are held captive of the organizations they're reporting on
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7:10 PM Lang: journalism is to me, about being on the sidelines, it's about not being involved ... that's what journalists do: we just watch it, or we should or we're doing something wrong. Lang starts by asking Moorcroft: How do you think we're doing?
7:10 PM Moorcroft: I look at the quality of financial journalism we have today and we've come a long way -- that doesn't mean we're perfect
7:11 PM Today is the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers
7:12 PM Cherney: I don't think we're captive, but I think sometimes we don't know where to look ... we're not always very good at finding the problem before it surfaces.
7:13 PM Lang: The 24/7 news model, and specifically the need to fill a news hole that is entirely about business. Does that cause problems? Now we've got to tackle business all day long; does it lower the standards?
7:14 PM Moorcroft thinks it does. He says, "What happens if there isn't enough to fill the void?" It's not the biggest problem, he adds, but there isn't as much business news in Canada as the U.K and U.S -- and it does result in manufacturing stories
7:14 PM Cherney says it helps perpetuate the sports journalism side of financial journalism: are the markets up, are they down? She adds: that may not be the thing financial journalists are best at
7:15 PM Moorcroft: can't just blame one particular group - investors, journalists - no one saw it coming
7:16 PM Lang: There certainly does seem to be an anti-business bias in this country, not with just journalists, but with people. Is it a healthy thing -- that distance? Or is it even there?
7:17 PM Moorcroft: Yes, I would agree it's there. He adds that he can sense hostility from some journalists when he was in PR during the 80s and 90s -- a sense that business is out to screw somebody
7:17 PM Moorcroft on Canada's anti-biz climate: I always felt from some journalists a deep-rooted suspicion about business. There were some with an axe to grind
7:18 PM Lang: Some of this nation's best business commentators didn't go to school to become business journalists? Is that a good thing? What's the right approach?
7:19 PM Cherney: I think we have both ... We have in our section people that have worked -- someone that's worked on Bay Street -- but we mostly have journalists that have learned by doing ... just the way you would become a health reporter or a political reporter
7:20 PM M: Jschools are failing students. Business and math not a part of curriculum
7:20 PM Moorcroft says the question is do you train students to be reporters, or do you take business analysts etc., and then train them to be reporters? One of the problems with getting specialized people -- lawyers, etc -- into journalism, he adds, is lowered freelance rates.
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379 submissions from 88 different Canadian publications for awards in 43 written, visual, integrated and online categories.

The three finalists for the coveted Magazine of the Year are Canada’s History (née The Beaver), Cottage Life and MoneySense.
5:35 PM Check out the National Mag Award's site for the full list of nominees

www.magazine-awards.com
5:37 PM More about the Magazine of the Year award, from the site:

About the Award

"The award for Magazine of the Year is open to any Canadian consumer magazine magazine that is at least 51% Canadian owned and published in either English or French or a combination of both. Eligible magazines must publish at least 2 issues per year."
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5:49 PM I should also admit my bias upfront. I will be cheering for the following people tonight: my partner in food blogging Sarah Efron, Moneysense managing editor and founder of Spice City Toronto, is also up for a mag award. So are my friends Lauren McKeon and Jessica Leigh Johnston, both nominated for features for This magazine (Lauren wrote about the North's superprisons and Jessica wrote about what Canada should learn from Abu Dhabi's new metropolis. Good luck guys!
6:08 PM When an event planner (say, me) is faced with a night alone at the office and an office full of wine, that person has some choices to make.
6:09 PM Here's everyone who has taken home the Mag of the Year award:

Previous Winners*

2009 - Up Here
2008 - AlbertaViews
2007 - Toronto Life
2006 - The Walrus
2005 - Maclean's
2004 - Maisonneuve
2003 - Border Crossings
2002 - Outpost
2001 - Canadian Geographic
2000 - Azure
1999 - Chatelaine
1998 - Adbusters
1997 - Vancouver Magazine
1996 - Canadian Living
1995 - Canadian House & Home
1994 - Canadian Art
1993 - Owl & Chickadee
1992 - Cottage Life
1991 - The Idler
1990 - West
1989 - Toronto Life
1988 - Applied Arts Quarterly
1987 - Report on Business
1986 - Quill & Quire
1985 - Toronto Life
1984 - Saturday Night
1983 - Vancouver
1982 - Equinox
6:11 PM There's about a gazillion categories, so I doubt I'll be able to tweet all the winners. For reference, here are the categories that are (for the first time) open to print AND digital categories (remember last year, when the online awards were the pre-show?)

Arts & Entertainment: Any article on the arts or entertainment.

Best Short Feature: Any non-fiction article of 2,000 words or less. Opinion columns are not eligible. Entries will be judged exclusively on the strength and quality of the writing. Any article entered in Best Short Feature category may not be entered in any other written category

Business: Any article on business.

Columns: Any set of three (3) columns by the same writer in the same publication.

Essays: Any article in which a writer's perspective is paramount, offering an argument or a reflection. The regular columns of columnists are not eligible.

Fiction: Any work of fiction first published by the magazine. Entries in Fiction are not eligible for entry in any other written category.

Health & Medicine: Any article on health or medicine.

How-to: Any article that is instructional in nature. Articles submitted in any of the Service categories may not be entered in the How-to category.

Humour: Any humorous piece.

Investigative Reporting: Any article based on original fact-finding and enterprising newsgathering.

One-of-a-kind: Any non-fiction magazine article not entered in any other category. The intent is to open the competition to writing that is not easily classified.

Personal Journalism: Any article that focuses on the personal experiences of the writer.

Poetry: Any work of poetry first published by the magazine (a series of up to three poems by the same author from a single issue is permitted).

Politics & Public Interest: Articles that concern politicians, politics or public issues with the potential to influence national or local public policy. Articles entered in this category may NOT also be entered in the category Society.

Profiles: Any article that focuses on one person or a group. Articles entered in the Profiles category may not be entered in any other written category.

Science, Technology & the Environment: Any article on science, technology or environmental issues. Articles entered in this category may NOT also be entered in the category Society.

Service-Health & Family: Any informational article covering health, medicine, psychology, relationships and education. Articles submitted in this category may NOT also be entered in category Health & Medicine or in the category How-to, nor in any of the other service categories.

Service-Lifestyle: Any informational article that deals with interests including, but not limited to, travel, recreation, music, environment, décor, maintenance, hobbies, food and fashion. Food articles may include recipes but may not consist entirely of recipes. Articles submitted in this category may NOT also be entered in category How-to, nor in any of the other service categories.

Service-Personal Finance & Business: Any informational article covering personal finance, business and careers. Articles submitted in this category may NOT also be entered in category Business or in the category How-to, nor in any of the other service categories.

Society: Articles directly concerned with social issues. Articles submitted in categories Politics & Public Interest or Science, Technology & the Environment may not be entered in this category.

Sports & Recreation: Any article on sports or recreation.

Travel: Any article that relies on a sense of place for its impact.

The following category is open to print publications only:

Editorial Package: Any collection of articles on a related theme in a single issue that reflects collaboration by editors and writers. Restricted to a maximum of three (3) editorial package entries per magazine. ($150 entry fee for each)
6:11 PM Print only categories:

Best Single Issue: This prize is awarded to the magazine that has published the best single issue of the year in terms of the overall quality and originality of the content and its relevance to the intended readers. Editors must include four (4) copies of a cover letter (max 300 words) to summarize the issues goals. ($150 entry fee for each)

Magazine Covers: Any single magazine cover.

Single Service Article Package: A single service article that displays superior packaging of visual and written components and that reflects collaboration by the editorial team (which could include editor(s), writer(s), photographer(s), illustrator(s), stylist(s) and others). Packaging elements could include (but are not limited to) annotations, illustrations, photography, sidebars and captions. This category is intended for single articles that are driven more by instructional content than by storytelling. Any article entered in Single Service Article Package may NOT also be entered in Words & Pictures. This category does NOT include related articles packaged together.

Words & Pictures: Any article that relies for its impact on the successful integration of text and visuals as inseparable elements. Entries in Words & Pictures may NOT also be entered in Single Service Article Package.
6:11 PM Visual categories:

Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article

Art Direction for an Entire Issue - please submit four (4) entire original issues for each submission. There is no longer a limit to the number of issues one magazine can entry into this category.

NEW! Conceptual Photography:Any photograph or series of photographs in which an idea or concept is portrayed.

Fashion & Beauty: Any fashion or beauty layout using photography or illustration.

Homes & Gardens: Any photograph or series of photographs, for a single article, that celebrates interiors or exteriors. This includes architecture, décor and gardens.

Illustration: Any full-page, spread, cover or photo illustration; colour or black and white; single or series.

Photojournalism & Photo Essay: Any photograph or series of photographs from a single issue, shot on location, which records events or situations not controlled by the photographer. This category includes photo essays, travel and landscape photographs that accompany a single article.

Portrait Photography: Any photograph or series of photographs for a single article on one or more people.

Spot Illustration: Any illustration less than a page; colour or black and white, single or series.

Still-life Photography: Any photograph or series of photographs of an object or objects, for a single article. This category includes food and product.
6:12 PM Also: new digital awards!

NEW! Best Digital Design: A digital publication with the most successful and original overall combination of visual and graphic design elements with functionality, including ease of navigation, readability of content, successful integration of audio/visual elements and a clear distinction between paid content/advertising and editorial content.

NEW! Best Multi-media Feature: An original digital feature that best serves its intended audience through use of the digital medium including audio/visual elements as well as blogs and social media including forums, user-generated content, message boards etc.
6:12 PM And last but not least, the (digital) Magazine of the Year award:

A web-only magazine or magazine companion site that successfully fulfills its editorial mission by representing the highest journalistic standards and effectively serving its intended audience by maximizing the possibilities afforded by the digital medium. These include excellence of content, interactivity, rich media, design, navigation, and social media. Editorial material must be clearly delineated from sponsored content, advertising and product sales as prescribed by ASME's Best Practices for Digital Media. An editorial mandate is required with this entry.
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6:16 PM I've a longtime reader of D.B.'s Canadian Magazines blog. I did a little internal dance whenever I beat him to a magazine story when I worked full-time at J-Source. It rarely happened.
6:19 PM Did I mention that I left J-Source a few months ago to work for ScribbleLive, the Toronto company that donated the liveblog platform you're using right now? Seems I can't stay away.
6:23 PM this year, maybe i'll drip the tiny sandwiches INTO the chocolate fountain.. #nma #duh
6:32 PM okay leaving for the awards, doing the rest of this from my cell phone. lets see how long the battery lasts. (estimate: until right before something great happens)
6:41 PM #NMA gala tonight. Best of luck, friends and colleagues, and bravo to all noms. The rest of you, show your support, buy a Canadian magazine.
Continue...]]> http://live.j-source.ca/Event/Live_The_National_Magazine_Awards2 http://live.j-source.ca/Event/Live_The_National_Magazine_Awards2 dana Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:49:01 +0000 6:55 PM Hi everybody! We're live at the 14th Annual Canadian Journalism Foundation Awards Gala. It's a packed house.
7:05 PM Host Dawna Friesen takes the stage: "tonight is a reminder that excellent journalism and dedicated journalists are alive and well in this country and we need to nurture them."
7:05 PM Friesen: To those of use have been around a while ... it can all be a little bit daunting. I know that makes me sound like an old fart but so be it.
7:06 PM Friesen: Through all of this change one constant remains, and that is the stories
7:07 PM Friesen:
Stories are still what bind us, what inform us, and what entertain us ... we can't lose sight of the stories
7:10 PM John Macfarlane up first: I'm very proud of foundation's accomplishments ...

He adds that cutbacks in newsrooms across the country are making it harder to provide excellent work like the kind the CJF is honouring tonight
7:12 PM Bob Lewis is the first award presenter (and new CJF chair): Excellence in journalism award in small or local media category

But first we have an honourable mention, for an organization that continues to work independently and with flair online and beyond ... I refer to the Tyee, please join me in saluting David Beers
7:14 PM Winner: CBC Manitoba, Cecil Rosner is on the podium to accept award
7:17 PM Rosner: Greetings from the city with the new, and yet unnamed, NHL franchise

Rosner says that it's really humbling to be in this room and that he counts himself lucky to be able to come to work everyday.

His newsroom is all about finding the real story behind press release. He adds that he is fortunate to work in network that understands local and regional reporting is the cornerpost for a successful national broadcast
7:20 PM Next presenter is Tom Clark, presenter of Greg Clark award:

Tom says he suspects few remember who Greg was. So here are a few things about him: Greg was born into a family of journalists, his father was the EIC of the Toronto Star, he was a soldier, he won the Military Cross at Vimy, he wrote his stories from the eyes of the soldier, he was also very prolific, he figured at one point he wrote 11 million words
7:21 PM Clark: The competition for this award, was, as always, extremely furious. Winner came very close to winning last year, CJF suggested come back with stronger application this year. "And," says Clark, "she did."
7:22 PM Winner Marion Warnica, but no speech.
7:25 PM Catherine Hanson to present Tom Hanson photojournalism award: "Tom had a unique ability to capture whatever he was photographing," she says. "When he left us suddenly in 2009," she adds, family friends wanted to find "a special way to honour his memory and spirit."
7:27 PM Winner is Aaron Vincent Elkaim, another finalist from last year
7:30 PM 2011 winners of Canadian Journalism Fellowships. Next year will be 50th year of fellowships.

Winners: Elizabeth Bowie, Robert Cribb, Shawn Micallef, Luis Horacio Najera, Lee Pitts, Ato Dadzie
7:33 PM Peter Mansbridge to present Lifetime Achievement Award to Patrick Brown: Lists previous award winners "That is quite a list"
7:37 PM To video of Patrick Brown
7:50 PM Patrick makes a speech: [re: video] God, I'd like to meet that guy some day. I saw some people laughing at my hair and beard. Those were the days
7:51 PM He continues:
It's a great honour and I was very surprised when I was phoned to be told about it ... I told the person who called that it was a bit early for, what is called in French, a career crowing award because I don't feel I'm finished yet
7:52 PM Brown also says that "TV is a team sport ... if there is an achievement there it is not a one person game." He says dozens of people must be recognized
Continue...]]> http://live.j-source.ca/Event/14th_Annual_Canadian_Journalism_Foundation_Annual_Awards_Gala http://live.j-source.ca/Event/14th_Annual_Canadian_Journalism_Foundation_Annual_Awards_Gala Lauren McKeon Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:43:10 +0000 6:29 PM Hellooo everyone. Dana here, liveblogging the almost-monthly CJF Forum. Tonight, we hear from the leaders of some Canadian news startups. Any questions? Use #cjfforum or e-mail 24955@scribblelive.com.
6:30 PM About our speakers:

Jeff Anders from The Mark's bio page:

Jeff has nearly a decade of experience innovating in companies and international organizations. He worked for five years at Mercer Oliver Wyman as a strategy consultant to executives of Fortune 500 companies. Later, as an independent consultant, Jeff was retained by Hewlett Packard in India to help launch a team of local PhDs to perform marketing analytics for Western clients. Subsequently, he worked with a software provider in Beijing to raise capital and plan its international expansion. Jeff completed a Bachelor of Commerce at McGill, a MBA at MIT, and a Masters in Public Administration at Harvard. You can follow him @jeffanders.

www.themarknews.com
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6:37 PM James Baxter, from IPolitics.ca

Over the past 25 years, Baxter has been an award-winning sportswriter, political journalist, bureau chief and editorial writer. A third-generation public affairs journalist, Baxter’s work covering politics, first in Ottawa and then in Alberta, earned him a prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2008, where his studies focused on the future of media businesses and the role of the press in democracy.

Born and raised in Ottawa, he holds degrees in international relations, journalism, and media administration. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Sarah, and three young children, coaches football and soccer, and is an exuberant skier.

Email James: jamesbaxter@ipolitics.ca
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6:38 PM David Beers, Founding editor of The Tyee, from his bio:

David Beers is founding editor of The Tyee. He was senior editor at Mother Jones magazine before moving to Vancouver in 1991. Since then, he has won national awards for his journalism in Canada and the United States, writing for The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic and many other publications. During a three years stint at the Vancouver Sun he edited the “Fate of the Strait” environmental series, recipient of Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Special Projects; invented and edited the cultural section Mix; served as Chief Features Editor and wrote a weekly essay on social and political issues.

He is author of Blue Sky Dream, a memoir of growing up in Cold War California suburbia. He is a founding member of IMPACS, a Vancouver non-profit firm providing media help to non-profit groups, former vice chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission, and a lecturer at the UBC School of Journalism.
6:38 PM
6:42 PM BNN host Andrea Mandel-Campbell, from her personal site:

Andrea Mandel-Campbell is a journalist, author and sought-after public speaker. She is an anchor at CTV's Business News Network and a guest columnist for Canadian Business Magazine. She is the author of the celebrated book, Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business from the Suds of Global Obscurity. Her award-nominated book takes a penetrating and unapologetic look at why Canadian companies fail to go global and why they must. As a public speaker, Andrea regularly travels the country to speak with government, companies and industry associations about the challenges and opportunities globalization offers and what Canadians need to do to be more competitive both from a private and public policy perspective.

Not too long ago, the country fretted it was being hollowed out as one Canadian corporate icon after another was snapped up by ambitious foreign acquirers. Today, as we survey the wreckage of the global financial crisis, Canada is in an enviable position: its banking system is universally admired while the country is on financially solid ground. Canada has a unique opportunity to leverage its strengths and fulfill its promised but ever-elusive potential. Will this be, as Sir Wilfred Laurier once proclaimed, Canada's century? That depends. A lot of challenges remain. Can a country notorious for its middle of the road, fence-sitting proclivities, take a stand and come up with a winning strategy for taking on the world? Andrea Mandel-Campbell invites you to join the conversation.
6:43 PM
6:44 PM Tonight's key question: where's the $?
6:47 PM Jeff admits: he hasn't made any money with The Mark .ca. yet.
6:51 PM From their site:

The Mark is founded on the idea that thousands of credible Canadians have important things to say but cannot reach a national audience.
Many want to publish their ideas but have no forum in which to do so. Two million Canadians live abroad and have a deep understanding of the countries and organizations within which they live and work, and yet no publication collects and shares their insights. For these great Canadians, here and abroad, The Mark will be their platform.

www.themarknews.com
6:53 PM iPolitics.ca launched in November, with aim to provide content for what James Baxter calls an "underserved" audience
6:54 PM From their site:

iPolitics is independent, non-partisan and committed to providing timely, relevant, insightful content to those whose professional or personal interests require that they stay on top of political developments in Ottawa and the provinces.
6:55 PM "People no longer go to one source to find what they want," Baxter says. They go to wherever does that specific type of news best
6:57 PM "One of the truisms of Canadian innovation is we run 3-5 years behind the U.S. in everything." it wasn't always like that, he says. And now that we've seen some great news org fall apart south of the border, will it happen here too? So he decided to follow Politico's lead.
6:59 PM "Our editorial vision is reporting, reporting reporting...I think there's terrific opinion in this country, but not a lot of reporting. As result, sites like Tyee and Open File and hopefully ours are starting to get in and be the next generation of diggers. I'm hopefully that's a tradition that's going to start to come into new media." - Baxter
7:01 PM David Beers is up now
7:02 PM From The Tyee's about page:

We're your independent daily online magazine reaching every corner of B.C. and beyond.

By David Beers
Editor

In November of 2003 The Tyee began its swim upstream against the media trends of our day. We're independent and not owned by any big corporation. We're dedicated to publishing lively, informative news and views, not dumbed down fluff. We, like the tyee salmon for which we are named, roam free and go where we wish.

At the time of our launch we said we believe many people in British Columbia are "hungry for news and comment that reflects their actual lives, their own values." And that an electronic magazine able to reach all of B.C. was needed "because 'The Big Smoke' of Vancouver/Victoria hears too little from the rest of the province and together we have plenty of challenges and solutions to talk about." We promised: "At The Tyee you'll find investigative reporting no one else is doing, and fresh viewpoints from all over B.C."

Since then, The Tyee has attracted some of the best journalists in B.C. who have broken many important stories. We've published viewpoints banished from corporate media and shined a light on corners of the province Big Media ignores. We've provided a showcase for young talent and a forum for readers who post their opinions after our stories. The Globe and Mail has said we publish "some of the best investigative reporting in the province" and when the Senate Committee on the status of Canadian news media came to Vancouver, they invited Tyee editors to share their vision of improved media democracy. And in February 2006, boosted by tax deductible contributions from generous readers, we also launched two charitable fellowship funds for independent journalists.

In short, The Tyee has delivered on its original promises, and we are determined to continue to do so even more effectively. We have enough budget to keep us going, but it remains bare bones. We are seeking investors, advertisers, and funders for our long list of investigative projects just waiting for resources. Is this you? If so send an email to editor@thetyee.ca.

You can also help the The Tyee thrive by spreading the word. Print out or email our articles and pass them on. Just how hungry are British Columbians for an alternative news source? Help us find out.

Definitely subscribe. It's free. Use the subscribe button on our home page and every week you will receive an email version of The Tyee that collects the original features posted here over the previous five days. It's an easy way to keep looking in, and if you do, we promise to work hard to earn not only your attention, but your respect.

As noted at the outset, the word tyee is by local current definition a Chinook, Spring or King salmon of thirty pounds or more. But more than a century ago, the original Chinook word carried even more weight. In those days a tyee meant a chief, a king, "anything of superior order" -- even an online magazine.

That's something to aim for as we swim against the current.
7:03 PM Beers starts off by pointing out that The Tyee is 8 years old -- no longer deserves "startup" status
Continue...]]> http://live.j-source.ca/Event/CJF_Forum_Meet_the_Minds_Behind_Canadas_Online_News_Start-ups http://live.j-source.ca/Event/CJF_Forum_Meet_the_Minds_Behind_Canadas_Online_News_Start-ups dana Mon, 16 May 2011 15:10:12 +0000 10:21 AM Hi everybody. We're late going online here, due to some technical difficulties here at the Radio-Canada building. Craig Silverman, of Regret the Error, is nearing the end of his presentation. Rather than jump in, we're going to post a round-up later on J-Source.ca. We'll throw a link up here and on Twitter once it's online. See you after the morning coffee break! Up next: Tarmu Tammerk, the media ethics ombudsman at the Estonian Public Broadcasting Company.
11:09 AM OK! Tarmu Tammerk's presentation has started.
11:09 AM He says most ombudsman where he is only started in 2007
11:09 AM Typical cases he deals with: accuracy, balance, bias
11:11 AM Tammerk: Also, commercial pressure, was increasingly mentioned: news and advertising being mixed up, in countries like Turkey, for example
11:12 AM often minor omissions and mistakes, deal with very small minute things that reasonable people will understand -- even when there's no ill will
11:13 AM Tammerk:
Other typical cases: elections, political issues. As public expect very balanced view. Which political parties have the right to appear in national debates and which don't (J-Source: Sounds familiar for us Canadians, right?)
11:13 AM More issues: Just a few from online, and re: removing material from the net
11:15 AM Typical cases part three

Some of the more subjective stuff, such as liberal v. mainstream bias, direction of the newspaper and sensationalism, and choices of letters to the editor, and taste, suitability for kids, violence, anchors on TV
11:16 AM Tammerk:
Ombudsman not making any big statements on very subjective matters, they leave it to the editors
11:18 AM Main concerns: how to keep up with the workload, increasing invisibility, and also how to be relevant

Tammerk gives an example of a person from Kenya who had been in office for two months only. She said: "striking a balance between good relations with newsroom and being responsive to readers"

Tammerk: So,
whether you've been in office for two months, two years, or 10 years, this is a key concern for readers.
11:18 AM "showing your teeth doesn't bring you friends"
11:20 AM Another question: Where are ombudsman situated in newsroom? Is it in the very centre? Is it up in the corner at the top room where people don't even know it's there? Is it at the end of a long corridor on the floor with administration (where he sits). Tammerk says he doesn't want to be part of day-to-day decision making process, because it would bring him too close to day-to-day of reporters. i.e. Then he'd know if the reporter produced a bad story because of a personally bad day, such as a break-in in her home, etc.
11:22 AM Some of the concerns: For an ombudsman in Turkey its very hard to see journalists being imprisoned and then he is making decisions on journalism ethics. Another concern: statute of limitations for complaints. This is in the context of online archives. For example: If someone finds a three year old story and comes with a complaint, should the ombudsman take it up?
11:24 AM Tammerk says this is something ombudsman should be discussing in public, i.e. We won't take any complaints that are more than X years old
11:25 AM Tammerk: We are sometimes criticized for being too slow.

You just might make a very, very little remark, a vague remark [on Twitter or Facebook]. It turns out it could be interpreted in a different way and you end up in big trouble. We can't be the instantaneous reply service, we have to think and analyze
11:27 AM Tammerk says shat isn't happening any more: discussion on anonymous comments. It's either we've gotten used to it, or they're being regulated, or moderated, in a new or different way
11:28 AM Also no longer being discussed: the bad effect of the economic crisis on the quality of journalism. Tammerk: "I think people, ombudsmen, have just adjusted to the situation"
11:34 AM Interacting with readers, viewers and listeners: How does the audience get in touch with us? Of course we know email is first. What is second? Calling is second, but what percentage, roughly? 10? 5? By e-mail 90 per cent, ranging from 60 - 95 per cent of total communications. By phone five per cent. By regular mail, about two per cent
11:36 AM Tammerk:
Very often it's the ombudsmen that has the time to talk to people [rather than reporters, editors]
Continue...]]> http://live.j-source.ca/Event/Organization_of_News_Ombudsmen_2011_Annual_Conference http://live.j-source.ca/Event/Organization_of_News_Ombudsmen_2011_Annual_Conference Lauren McKeon Wed, 11 May 2011 14:39:11 +0000 5:50 PM Dana here, former JSource editor back for more journo insider liveblogging... I'm now working for Scribblelive, who I first met after they donated their live blog tools to JSource. Anyway, tonight: google for journalists at google Canada's hq in dundas square
6:14 PM Sitting on google reception with giant fake plants. Why does my camera rake this moment to go on the fritz?
6:21 PM Tweeters: use #g4j to join in
6:39 PM If you want to send in comments, questions or photos send an email to 24261@scribblelive.com
6:40 PM At #g4j
6:40 PM Who else is at the google for journalists event? #g4j
6:49 PM At the #Google for #journalists event with @meg_haynes. #G4J
6:49 PM
6:51 PM And yes, I'm sitting in the front row like a keener. Bring on the google secrets (incidentally, I had to sign a waiver promising I wouldn't reveal any source code secrets )
6:52 PM Google for Journalists at Google's Toronto offices. Yes, it feels googlish :) #g4j
6:52 PM Andrew Swartz notices that it is hot in the room. Well done lad. #g4j
6:52 PM Hottest room ever at google for journalists... Creative foreshadowing of the topics? :) #g4j
6:52 PM #g4j Google for journalists in session.
6:53 PM #g4j is a training session Google offers to journalists across North America
6:53 PM If you're interested, this "Google for Journalists" event is being live-tweeted at #g4j
6:53 PM i've never tweeted from an event before. feels like i'm not listening... but this fills the gaps between the dull stuff #g4j
6:53 PM Curious to see how this #Google event can help do the research faster and more efficiently. #G4J
6:54 PM At #SABEW Google for journos Toronto event #g4j
6:54 PM At the Toronto Googleplex for "Google for Journalists" #g4j
6:55 PM #g4j 70% of Google engineers still work on their search tool
Continue...]]> http://live.j-source.ca/Event/Live_Google_for_Journalists http://live.j-source.ca/Event/Live_Google_for_Journalists dana Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:23:19 +0000 6:34 PM Good evening everyone. Lauren here. We're almost off. Here are the bios for tonight's event, courtesy of the CJF:

MARK BLEVIS has seven years of experience providing counsel on digital communication and engagement for companies in the high-tech, pharmaceutical, financial services, energy and publishing industries, foreign embassies and Canadian government departments and agencies. His February 2010 research report House of Tweets and 2011 follow up Peace, Order and Googleable Government have recently positioned him as an analyst of social media in politics and public affairs. Prior to becoming immersed in digital communication, Blevis worked in information security, risk management and privacy for both the private sector and government.

CHRIS BOUTET is the senior producer for digital media at the National Post. In his five years with the organization as a page editor, news blogger, home page director and audience engagement strategist, Chris has helped to establish a collaborative newsroom environment that encourages online innovation, whether it’s creating new ways to engage with casual readers or turning a static graphic into a runaway viral hit. Leading the National Post’s social media strategy, Chris’s team has cultivated thriving networks on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Tumblr that have helped the Post reach and engage with vast new communities of readers. You can follow him on Twitter @chrisboutet.

KENYON WALLACE is a journalist and web editor with the Toronto Star. He is the primary editor of the Star’s newly-launched online Politics Page, and one of two coordinators of the Star’s Youth Nation 2011 initiative – a website and online forum aimed at engaging young people and candidates running for office under the age of 30 in a conversation surrounding the federal election. In 2010, Kenyon was nominated for a National Newspaper Award in the Breaking News category for his coverage of a helicopter crash that killed 17 people off the coast of Newfoundland. Kenyon recently returned to the Star after a stint as a general assignment reporter at the National Post. He has a Master of Journalism degree from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Commerce from UBC.

ABOUT OUR MODERATOR

JESSE HIRSH is an internet strategist, researcher and broadcaster based in Toronto, Canada. As a freelance journalist, he's been doing radio and television work for a decade and a half, having worked for CFRB, Jazz FM, TVO, Global TV, Citytv, Rogers, OMNI, and MuchMusic. Currently, he has a weekly nationally syndicated column on CBC Radio explaining and analyzing the latest trends and developments in technology. Educated at the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto, his passion is educating people on the potential benefits and perils of technology.
6:42 PM I'm liveblogging the #cjfforum with @jsource, starts in a few minutes #elxn41
6:45 PM Blevis kicks it off: "I like to put slides up so it gives people another place to look" First slide: Peace, order and Googleable government
6:46 PM Blevis: Last election, if you weren't aware, Twitter lit up. The results in Canada went up ... if nothing else for social media we can expect that on election night
6:46 PM
6:47 PM Blevis: Back in Feb, 13 MPs who didn't have a website, now if you run an election you're at sever disadvantage if you don't have a place where people can find you online
6:47 PM According to Blevis: Debate night there were 38,000 tweets on the debate -- he hasn't done the math, but that's about one every two seconds for the duration of the day
6:48 PM 38,000 tweets on debate night...just a taste of what's to come.
6:48 PM Other memorable moments to set the framework: Facebook profile of the young women who was screened (and then outed) because of Facebook profile pic with Ignatieff
6:49 PM In our first 20 days of election campaign there were almost 400,000 tweets
6:51 PM Most traffic night for Twitter was debate night. When you look at share of voice Twitter is where the action is -- goes a long way toward explaining the so-called Twitter debate, says Blevis. It has about 80 per cent of overall online voice when it comes to election.

Blevis is now interrupted by Q from audience: what does that mean for substance and content?

Blevis: Substance and content don't matter ... when you talk about quality of signal vs. quantity ... I haven't really gone into the measure of quality, because there's too much quantity.
6:51 PM Liveblog url for #elxn41 and #sm panel: t.co
6:53 PM Blevis: this isn't a social media election, it's a velocity election
6:55 PM First heckler of the night asks, "why is 400,000 considered a big number? The national gets twice that many viewers in a night"
6:56 PM Blevis: When you talk about 400,000 tweets, that's about 308-million impression reach (measures opportunities for people to see that tweet)
6:57 PM Blevis answers, numbers actually represent 308 million "impressions" or measure if number of eyeballs see the message
7:00 PM
7:01 PM Blevis: With respect to election campaign I believe there's an epicentre of people in the political conversation from which everything is emanating
7:02 PM Blevis: suddenly, #elxn41 tweets are filtering into feeds of Canadians who might not otherwise have sought them out
7:03 PM Q from audience: Is the technology really expanding the conversation, making an expanded conversation possible?

Blevis: Everybody talks about conversation, people can engage with each other and have discourse ... but if you look at the pie chart 40 per cent [of tweets] is original content, and 16 per cent are responses. The rest are part of the amplifier effect (retweets)
Continue...]]> http://live.j-source.ca/Event/CJF_Forum_Social_media_meets_traditional_election_coverage http://live.j-source.ca/Event/CJF_Forum_Social_media_meets_traditional_election_coverage Lauren McKeon Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:15:48 +0000 7:34 AM Good morning! Welcome to the CNW Breakfast with the Media. Lauren here (bright and early). The discussion kicks off in about half an hour, after we all grab some grub and coffee.

Here are the bios for today's speakers, as supplied by CNW:

Chris Hogg is the CEO of Digital Journal, a global digital media news network. Chris is widely recognized as both a pioneer and leader in new media, having built one of the largest and most active user-generated content networks with tens of thousands of contributors in 200 countries around the world. Chris is also co-founder of the Future of Media speaker series, a widely followed speaker series dedicated to following the evolution of journalism, news and media. You can follow him @chrishogg.

Anjali Kapoor is the Managing Editor, Digital at The Globe and Mail where she oversees the editorial digital strategy for Globe and Mail sites.

Previously, Anjali held the position of Director, Product & Editorial at Yahoo! Canada where she was responsible for overseeing the product strategy and business goals of the Media Group. With a background in journalism, Anjali’s main focus for the past ten years has been within the digital industry in Canada. Her main areas of expertise are user/audience experience, content development and product strategy. She has worked for Microsoft Canada, Transcontinental Media, Sun Media (Canoe) and Rogers.

Sarah Millar is a web editor at the Toronto Star. Even in her downtime, Sarah can be found online — usually navigating the Twitter-verse, exploring Tumblr and doing some part-time blogging. In the past, Sarah has worked for Sun Media, the National Post and the Hamilton Spectator, among others. Follow her @sarah_millar.

Moderator bio: Carolyn McGill is President and Chief Executive Offer of CNW Group. Carolyn joined CNW in 1999 as Director of Marketing and New Product Development. She held progressively senior positions in a variety of business units which included human resources and sales. Carolyn joined the CNW Group Board of Directors in 2003 and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in 2008.

Carolyn leads the Senior Management Team in establishing the strategic direction for CNW Group and in ensuring that CNW maintains its leadership position in news distribution and management in the Canadian marketplace.
8:08 AM And we're off!
8:11 AM Intro: "Today multimedia is not only a nice-to-have, but a must"
8:14 AM Mod Q1 from McGill: From a reporting and news gathering perspective what has changed?
8:15 AM Hogg: What hasn't changed? The digital media landscape has changed everything
8:15 AM Hogg says one of the of the biggest challenges is "being everywhere at the same time."
8:16 AM Millar: For breaking news it's digital first ... but it's not about first to the finish line, it's about accuracy.
8:17 AM Millar: "Deadlines no longer exist." It's now about being as possible.
8:18 AM Q2: What can a PR executive do to adapt to digital first?
8:18 AM Kapoor: It is 24-7 ... having a 9-5 deadline is not going to work for most journalists.
8:22 AM Hogg: "To understand headspace of a media professional ... there are new challenges digital first presents."

Now, Hogg has us pulling out our phones, asking for us to call office and ask about him. Then points out, most of the time he won't be out of his desk. Then asks us to email him (with a smartphone, of course) and ask what his favourite gadget is, then points out he probably won't have time to answer. But Twitter? The answer was already up there. Exercise shows how the way journalists communicate is changing.
8:22 AM Millar: No longer days when journalist had luxury of doing one story a day. We're not sitting by the phone waiting for you to call. We're not.
8:23 AM Q3: Harder to get coverage? How do you do it?
8:23 AM Kapoor says at the end of the day it's still about a really good story.
8:24 AM Hogg: "It's about conversation" not so much the PR pitch any more
8:25 AM Hogg: One of the things I still get [on email] is "hey you" or "hey there" ... Check out this revolutionary product that's going to change the industry. Delete ...Understand what we have to do, what we have to write ... then helping us communicate this.
8:26 AM Millar: I get 500-600 emails a day. She says this makes a face-to-face meeting, or building a relationship, more important than ever
8:26 AM Q4: How does multimedia fit into newsgathering today?
8:27 AM Hogg: It's everything ... from the business sense: having a photo on a separate page is another page view. It's another way to monetize.
8:28 AM Kapoor says one of the challenges for reporters is they have to adapt to a lot of different skills. If you're a journalist you know what makes a good story, but how do you report it is the question: iPhone, web, Twitter, etc.
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7:42 PM Tonight's speakers are:
    * Jamie Angus, acting head of news at BBC World News
    * Jon Taylor, senior director of content for CTV Digital Media
    * Chris Boutet, senior producer for digital media at the National Post
    * Mathew Ingram, a senior writer at GigaOM. Ingram was previously a journalist with the Globe and Mail and he is co-founder of the mesh conference.
    * Kathy Vey, editor-in-chief of OpenFile. Vey previously held a number of editorial positions at the Toronto Star.
Moderator: Dave Silverberg, Digital Journal

For in-depth bios of Future of Media speakers visit: www.futureofmediaevents.com
7:48 PM Here are a few of the questions we can expect speakers to be asked tonight:
    * What can newsrooms learn from tech start-ups? Should media outlets take a more entrepreneurial approach in their day-to-day operations?
    * What can tech start-ups learn from traditional and mainstream media?
    * How are social media, new technology and apps changing media organizations?
    * What technologies, new ideas and business models will be successful and what is just a trend?
 
The live panel discussion is followed by a Q&A session with the audience. Digital Journal is also taking questions for panelists via Facebook and Twitter.
8:13 PM Vey: The idea of a 9-to-5 day is pretty funny for me because we're (Open File) is a start-up and that doesn't exist
8:14 PM Ingram: I write about the internet which means sitting in my pajamas typing for 18 hours (a day) or so
8:15 PM First question: Is the future of media optimistic:

Angus: The value of well-versed, well-sourced content will never die.
8:19 PM Ingram: Now that we've all been optimistic, I'm going to get pessimistic. Even though we've all said content is going to win .. the business model is what pays people's salaries... there's way more content than there ever has been. The barriers to entry ... are lower than they've ever been ... Even in the traditional media so much more competition for eyeballs, for readers
8:22 PM Boutet: Authoritative voice is a very subjective thing for people. Really the authoritative voice is the voice that you trust.
8:23 PM Angus: People place a great value now in living vicariously. They know what they're consuming is probably not 100% true, but that doesn't bother them. They're happy to follow along. ... They know some of it may be rumour, it may turn out not to be true, but they still want to consume it.
8:26 PM Moderator question re: Digital first strategy, as a way for print and broadcast products to take advantage of online space: digital first, print last. What do you measure as a successful digital first strategy?
8:27 PM Boutet re National Post: It served as wake up call, says Boutet, we needed to stop building workflow as building print first and online as a supplementary. "Instead we needed to flip that ... it needs to start with digital and end with print."
8:30 PM Ingram: "I think the hard part with a digital first strategy is that you still have print products, legacy products, that are producing 70 - 80 per cent of your revenue."
8:34 PM Angus: Previously gathering social media from on-the-ground citizens all happened behind the scenes, what we're doing is now publishing it. That could never happen 2-3 years ago.
8:36 PM Moderator to Taylor re strategy: You're more than just dumping content on web. What are you doing to differentiate self from competitors?

My role is clearly a step in the right direction. We have a tv person who is focused on how to translate tv into web. We're not digital first ... but that spirit is being embraced. Less about digital dollars, but concern about what are we going to do in digital ... embracing what we've got ... how does that translate to digital space.
8:39 PM Vey re: why working for smaller start-ups, such as Open File, can be better: If you have an idea you can implement it much more rapidly without several layers of corp. I wanted to start Toronto Star Facebook page and couldn't get an answer "so one day I just went rouge" and started one.
8:41 PM Ingram: When Twitter came out, I don't think anyone would have predicted newspapers would have entire staff devoted to their Twitter account.
8:42 PM Moderator: What about when Twitter and Facebook creates brands for journalists? Do you think that branding of a journalist changes how newspapers or any products have to operate, or how a journalist does their job?
8:43 PM Vey: It's still a struggle to get many journalists on Twitter ... some won't tweet and others will just tweet (something like) I wrote this column, please look at it online ... but getting them to engage with readers is exactly what Twitter is there for.
8:44 PM Boutet: Now, I think, everybody has an opportunity to be an opportunity -- even ones you might wish wouldn't be
8:46 PM Angus re: newsrooms policies on journalists tweeting: We are really wrestling with this currently, it would be fair to say. On one hand have to encourage journalists to engage with readers, on the other hand we have to have some control over what is being published in the name of the BBC
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10:09 AM First up is a panel about blogging, babies and business: The 24-hour-a-day demands of journalism can turn life into a frantic balancing act. This panel will discuss the challenges of being a journalist and achieving (or attempting) a meaningful equilibrium between life and work. Topics will include relationships, parenthood, health and personal development.
Moderator: Laura DiBattista, host of CBC radio’s Here and Now
*Anne-Marie Mediwake, anchor/co-host of CBC News Toronto
*Philip Preville, freelance writer
*Suanne Kelman, author, acting chair, Ryerson University School of Journalism
*Carly Foster, co-owner, Sweet World Media, and publisher, Uxbridge
Town Talk and
Durham Region Kids
10:10 AM
10:11 AM Moderator: Laura DiBattista is the host of CBC Radio’s Here and Now and, we’re proud to say, a Ryerson graduate. She is an award-winning broadcast journalist with a 20 year track record anchoring CityTV's CityNews At Noon, and reporting on a regular basis for CityNews as the health specialist. In taking over as host of Here and Now from Matt Galloway, Laura traded her work in front of the camera to move behind the microphone for the CBC's afternoon drive home program. Laura is a lifelong resident of the Beaches, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
10:12 AM DiBattista: Never allow your work to suck you in completely.
10:12 AM Panellist Anne-Marie Mediwake: News anchor Anne-Marie Mediwake is the co-host of CBC News Toronto at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. Prior to joining CBC, Anne-Marie co-anchored Global Television's Toronto flagship newscast; and nationally, she co-hosted CTV's Gemini Award-winning investigative current affairs show 21C. While at CTV, she also reported for the National News with Lloyd Robertson, Canada AM and Newsnet. In 2004, Anne-Marie hosted Sri Lanka A Journey Home, a network news documentary that gave Canadians unprecedented access to the 2004 Tsunami in her birth country of Sri Lanka. She has been nominated for Canada's Top 35 Under 35, and is passionate about her involvement with local charities. In 2007, she and her husband, TV journalist Darryl Konynenbelt, added triplets to their lives.
10:12 AM Mediwake and partner are parents of 4-year-old triplets
10:12 AM Panellist Philip Preville has earned his living almost exclusively as a freelancer for eleven years. He has written for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and National Post, as well as Saturday Night, Toronto Life, enRoute, Western Living and Cottage Life magazines. His article on lobster fishing in the Magdalen Islands won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Travel Writing. He is a former Canadian Journalism Fellow at Massey College and a graduate of the Banff Literary Journalism Program. He and his wife, Lynn Mikula, have been married eight years and have three sons: Luke, age 5, and twins Ivor and Noel, 18 months.
10:13 AM Preville has three sons under the age of 5
10:13 AM Panellist Suanne Kelman: Suanne Kelman is currently the acting chair of the Ryerson School of Journalism and the author of All in the Family: A Cultural History of Family Life. Suanne’s journalism career includes producing radio and television documentaries at the CBC for shows such as Sunday Morning, The Journal and Ideas. Suanne has written for Toronto Life, Toronto, Destinations, R.O.B. Magazine, Chatelaine, Shape, the Literary Review of Canada and other magazines and newspapers. She is the only member of the Journalism School faculty ever to have written a gossip column (“The Tatler,” for the Globe and Mail), and even she lasted only six months before resigning in a fit of self-disgust.
10:13 AM Panellist Carly Foster: Carly Foster is an award-winning Ryerson Journalism School graduate and co-owner of Sweet World Media in picturesque Uxbridge. In between publishing a community magazine, designing websites and blogging on local parenthood, she's a mom to two crazy girls aged 5 and 2, wife to a handsome project manager and keeper of an aging Jack Russell Terrier. As such, she is a regular consumer of inexpensive wine and usually falls asleep with a book on her face. Prior to being her own boss, she worked at the Toronto Star, the Metroland Durham Region division, and Employee Benefit News Canada.
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10:14 AM Kelman: the thing that will make life easier for freelancers? Marry money
10:16 AM Mediwake: like any goal in life, if you make your mission statement early, everything else will fall in.
10:16 AM Mediwake: if you don't want to work weekends, you don't want to work late at night? don't be a reporter.
10:18 AM Preville: Let's start with an article: www.theglobeandmail.com
10:19 AM The article is titled: "Out of work? You may live a little longer" Preville: The real lesson here is not having a job is good for your health. The term work-life balance -- that phrase is often code for, how can I have it all? Truth is, it means, "what am I going to give up?" That's the real decision you have to make.
10:20 AM After a decade of freelancing, Preville took a full-time, non-journalism job when he and his wife decided to have more kids. It was a high-paced, high-stress job with little support. It made him miserable -- even more so after his twins were born. So he quit after 14 months. Went back to freelancing, where "i can be my own boss, and pick and choose what projects I would do. And spend more time with the kids and do a lot of the cooking... my wife and I have a very traditional marriage, but the gender roles are reversed."
10:24 AM After a rough transition period, Preville and his wife have gotten into the swing of things -- and it's fantastic -- "freelancing saved me"
10:26 AM For a while after having her two daughters, Carly Foster was in search of a job at a golf course. Then she found a business partner (to co-launch a community magazine) who also has kids -- it's important to work with people that understand the needs of journalists with kids.
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7:41 PM Brian Deer is an investigative journalist for the UK's Sunday Times.
7:45 PM Medical publication the Lancet published a story in 1998 linking childhood autism to vaccination, written by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, which Brian Deer discovered contained false information. But not before the story was spread wide.
7:45 PM Yesterday Deer spoke in an online chat with Globe and Mail editorial writer Marina Jimenez (who has covered autism issues as a reporter).

www.theglobeandmail.com

The public was invited to comment. Here's a few excerpts:

Reader K asked: "Brian, what were you thinking the moment you found out the study was a scam?" Deer answers "I'm not sure I was thinking anything more than: "That figures."

Commenter Ampelos asked "Why were you 'asked to look into the MMR issue, in late 2003'? Who asked you and what were their motives?"

Deer replied: "It was just a routine assignment from an editor who had big pages to fill, and wanted something substantial. Originally, I thought I was going to write about a TV show on the subject."

And the $100 question from commenter GillianGillian:
"There still is the question of how it got published by the Lancet. Presumably they evaluate articles submitted. How did they miss the bad science? It doesn't reflect well on the publication. Have they missed other bad science?"

Deer replied "Gillian: the editor of the Lancet, in my opinion, wanted to have a bit of controversy in the journal. At the time, it's impact factor measurements were in decline. medical journals are just another kind of magazine."
7:47 PM Some background about the controversy: www.commondreams.org
7:47 PM Deer shows slides of Dr. Wakefield with celebrities: "Here he is with a Dixie Chick. Or is that 'Chixie Dick?'"
7:47 PM Today, Wakefield is a "wandering freelance charlatan", Deer says. Back then, he was a hired gun, to the tune of millions of dollars.
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7:51 PM Huge story in British media at time (early 2000s)-- Blair wouldn't say whether his child was vaccinated.
7:52 PM In the view of the lawyer, it was clear Wakefield made money from publishing the paper in the Lancet.
7:53 PM Deer dismisses the comment that the link wasn't announced in the paper. It states it clearly in the paper, he says.
7:54 PM Wakefield's paper explicitly makes the link between the MMR vaccine and autism: the vaccine is the "apparent precipitating event."
7:55 PM Deer: Some people dismiss that the study was too small (12 kids) to pay attention to, but reality is no number is too small: would parents ignore even one kid who developed autism after receiving a vaccination?
7:55 PM Deer: "The first tip I got that this wasn't true was this 14 days business." 14 days proposed being a temporal link between the (UK DTP-vaccine) and autism.
7:57 PM Deer: For the first time a journalist was actually able to get around the back of annoynimized data in a medical journal. that's what I'm going to explain now.
7:57 PM Faking a link 1: the kids are picked. No child from London, two from same doctor's office 280 miles away, two are brothers, two attend another hospital clinic, one from California.
7:58 PM Wakefield hits phones to parents and GPs -- he's not a researcher, these calls were to individually target children.
7:59 PM Deer: the children in question were individually targeted and recruited by anti-vaccine activists and by a lawyer -- the child from California was FLOWN in to participate in the study.
7:59 PM Quiz: if recruited, why only 8 of 12? "You'd expect parents of all the children picked in the manner described would blame MMR"
8:00 PM So, why didn't they all blame MMR? They DID. When they came to the hospital, 11 out of 12 said it was the vaccine. The one who didn't changed her mind 4 years later.
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7:48 PM RSU member Rodney Diverlus, Vice-President Equity (RSU), talks about his brushes with racism on campus.
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7:53 PM At 8:30, university administrators and media will be asked to leave the auditorium to create a "safe space" for students to discuss strategies on how to keep the media accountable.
7:53 PM J-Source will not be leaving.
7:55 PM On tonight's panel: Dr. Roland Coloma
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8:00 PM Coloma: The accusation of being overly-sensitive becomes more common during times of instability -- a defense mechanism by the powerful to keep people from the margins from exerting their agency.
8:02 PM Coloma: Some readings of the article are more privileged and then become mainstream. Others become marginalized and are then dismissed.
8:05 PM Coloma: Asian-Canadians are both "wanted and unwanted" in Canada simultaneously. Their labour and capital are highly desired -- many universities aggressively recruit Asian students -- but they still face racism.
8:07 PM Coloma: We must be mindful of Canada's current conservative political, social and economic context.
8:16 PM Next speaker is Karim Alam (?). He was not on the speaker's list so the spelling of his name might be wrong.
8:18 PM Correction: it's Khurrum Awam
8:19 PM Awam: In a post-9/11 context, the media believes it's right to target minority groups.
8:21 PM Awam: Maclean's use of a picture of an Asian student carrying the CCP flag was inflammatory and wrong-headed.
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8:28 PM Awam: There are a variety of ways to hold the media accountable, but press councils are largely ineffective. Issuing complaints to human rights commissions is the best strategy.
8:30 PM The next speaker up is Irene Chu. Chu is the Executive Producer of "Once Upon a Time in Toronto," a 20-part Mandarin-language drama series and first-ever mutually supported television production between Canadian and Chinese companies. It airs on OMNI Television.
8:32 PM Chu: On September 30, 1979, CTV’s W5 Program aired a segment entitled “Campus Giveaway.” The program depicted university students of Chinese origin as foreigners who were taking away academic opportunities at our universities from “true” Canadians.
8:35 PM Chu produced Stephen Lewis' rebuttal to the CTV segment. Watch part one here: www.youtube.com
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About Nieman Journalism lab, from their site:

The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age.

The Internet has brought forth an unprecedented flowering of news and information. But it has also destabilized the old business models that have supported quality journalism for decades. Good journalists across the country are losing their jobs or adjusting to a radically new news environment online. We want to highlight attempts at innovation and figure out what makes them succeed or fail. We want to find good ideas for others to steal. We want to help reporters and editors adjust to their online labors; we want to help traditional news organizations find a way to survive; we want to help the new crop of startups that will complement — or supplant — them.

We are fundamentally optimistic.

We don’t pretend to have even five percent of all the answers, but we do know a lot of smart people. Primary among them are our readers; we hope your contributions will make the Lab a collaborative exchange of ideas. Tell us what’s happening around you, or what should be.

In addition, here at Harvard, we’re working with the Harvard Business School on new business models, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society on understanding online life, and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations on one potential path for news organizations.

We hope you enjoy the work we do, and that you’ll join the conversation as it evolves.
7:41 PM Joshua Benton, 35, is the founding director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, a project he calls "an effort to help the news business make the radical changes required by the internet age."

Before that, he spent a decade as an investigative reporter, columnist, foreign correspondent and rock critic for the Dallas Morning News and The Toldeo Blade. He studied history at Yale, where he focused on the American South. He grew up in small town Louisiana. His bio notes the he's been blogging since Clinton was president.
7:41 PM his site; joshuabenton.com
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7:42 PM Follow Nora on Twitter: @Nora3000
7:43 PM Interesting facts about Benton, courtesy of his online bio:

He used to run (perhaps) the world's largest illegal mix-CD-trading operation. ★ He is a Cajun. ★ He wrote his first HTML in 1994 and has fond memories of the first Netscape beta. ★ His stories on cheating on state exams in Texas led to the closure of a school district, the firing of several officials, and perhaps the resignation of a state education commissioner, depending on who you talk to. ★ He has reported from 10 foreign countries, if Canada counts. ★ He is right-handed. ★ He has, in the recent past, named pieces of computer equipment after New Orleans Saints running backs, giants of 20th-century British fiction, members of the Long political dynasty, and characters in A Confederacy of Dunces.
7:44 PM Benton's newspaper columns and articles from a decade as reporter, foreign correspondant and rock critic:
www.clipfile.org
7:45 PM Benton starts with a guilty admission: he hasn't updated his blog in two years. www.crabwalk.com
7:45 PM Joshua on the Neiman Lab: it's 85% newsroom, 15% think tank
7:48 PM Trend #1 for news in 2011: Tivo for News.
7:49 PM For all the list-lovers in the audience, Benton offers eight trends

1. TIVO for news. Majority of tv use is no longer live.

Instapaper is the TIVO for text. "The time you encounter news is not the time you want to consume it." Instapaper, like other programs (Read it Later) allows people to save the text of an article and read it later when offline.
7:50 PM www.instapaper.com is free to register
7:51 PM iPad use peaks in the evening: it's designed for use on couches and in bed.
7:54 PM Trend #2: More sharing of content.

There's a strong cross-pollination of content, which traditional media tends to balk at. But each platform has a narrow audience -- instead of two Mega City papers, you have numerous small news sites that serve a niche.
7:56 PM www.flipboard.com a cool new RSS feed for your iPad
7:56 PM RSS reader Flipboard (http://flipboard.com/) is more visual, "less geeky" than typical RSS readers, Benton says. He doesn't know why more people haven't jumped on the RSS bandwagon.

The idea: create a more laid-back news experience. Traditional media needs to start sharing content. 'if they want to be the primary source of news for their customers, they're going to have to present more of the world to their readers"
7:59 PM Journalism trend #3. The singles model for news

Producing journalism and circulating them often separated, but they should work together. Benton thinks we'll see the fledgling smartphone and tablet journalism breaking some ground. Wait and see what happens when Apple releases its changes to how it manages subscriptions and the App store, expected in the next few weeks...
7:59 PM Benton asks: does anybody remember what they were doing 20 years ago today? In the States, they were watching CNN because it was the day after the Gulf War started. (Editor's note: I was probably watching Ninja Turtles)
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7:29 PM Some quick facts about Lukasiewicz:

Eight-time Emmy Award winner (other awards include the Investigative Reporters and Editors award of outstanding investigative reporting, the Peabody Award and many more)

Former producer, ABC news (Prime Time Live, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Good Morning America)

Former senior editor, The Journal, CBC's flagship current affairs broadcast.

Former business reporter and columnist, Globe and Mail

Graduated University of Toronto with bachelor of Arts in economics and political science.
7:37 PM Lukasiewicz was named vice president of NBC News Specials and Digital Media in 2009, and is responsible for all special news productions on MSNBC and NBC News, including live election coverage, major planned news events and breaking news specials. He also oversees all of NBC News' digital programming, including the joint venture with MSNBC.com.
7:41 PM More bio: Lukasiewicz produced MSNBC's live coverage in the 2008 presidential election, the 2009 inauguration and NBC's live coverage of Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral. He's also the executive producer of the 2009 NBC two-hour special "Inside the Obama White House."
7:43 PM Introducing the speaker and providing some broadcast background is Mark Starowicz, executive director of documentary programming for CBC Television.
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7:50 PM Starowicz quotes the Columbia Journalism Review's bio, where Lukasiewicz is an adjunct professor: In his previous role as NBC News vp of digital media he integrated TV and digital editorial. He negotiated a variety of partnerships between MSNBC.com, NBC News, and sites like NYT.com, National Journal and MySpace. In 2008, MSNBC.com became the US's most visited news site, surpassing CNN.com and Yahoo!News and attracting more visitors than ABC, CBS and FOX News combined.
7:51 PM The full bio: www.journalism.columbia.edu
7:55 PM Power point slide quotes: technology is "anything that wasn't around when you were born" - alan kay
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7:58 PM "The microwave oven was a fantastic idea — manufacturers sold a vision that the microwave would replace everything in the kitchen. The smart people at the time were not the engineers, not the ones that understood how the device worked, but understood how the kitchen worked. At the end of the day, the microwave is for popcorn and leftovers. The people who focussed on the technology, ended up losing. So what do we bring to the table as journalists? It's when we take them into the lives of people, into history, making a policy human — that's where we do our jobs best. that's where television, particularly when portraying indivduals and community, is so powerful. "
7:58 PM Lukasiewicz: journalists who focus entirely on new technologies are setting themselves up for failure. Put the story first.
8:02 PM Social media is on the right track: Facebook is successful because it's about real people. TV news can learn from that
8:03 PM He doesn't agree with Rishad Tobaccowala -- "if you aren't posting, you don't exist" There's a lot of people who never post -- most of them in fact. How are we serving them?
8:04 PM Jacob Neilson has a 90 - 9 -1 theory. People are 90% lurkers, 9% participate once in a while, the occasional comment, etc. Just 1% really dominant the conversation.
8:06 PM Amazon: 200,000 reviews, but a retired librarian has written 23,000 of them. She claims she reads fast. If you only focus on the people posting, you're missing the other part of the conversation. You shouldn't do that any more than an assignment editor should run the newspaper based on letters to the editor.
8:09 PM 35 million people watched the midterm election coverage of various tv networks
8:09 PM Wired magazine called the broadcast biz: a "spiraling vortex of ruin"
8:11 PM Brokaw had the news at 6:30. Brian Williams has to update facebook, tweet, write blog posts, record podcasts, go on air live everyday at 6:30, make broadcasts for other time zones... the list goes on.
8:11 PM Social media will reconnect fragmented media landscape: it captures conversation among viewers, who share content to their friends and add their spin on it.

Traditional media outlets shouldn't focus on being the dominant news source. Today, people value having a variety of sources. The brand that matters most to them are their friends. The MSM has to pay attention to social media -- they need to have a social media presence and make themselves available to that sharing.

However, not everyone uses social media aggressively. 90 per cent of people are lurkers, ten percent contribute occasionally and only one per cent dominate. Wikipedia has 190 million users, less than 19 per cent contribute, one quarter of those are women.

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