Press Club – Covering the Fringe: How do we report from Canada’s social edges?
On November 8 from 7:45-9:00pm, join us for Press Club – Covering the Fringe: How do we report from Canada’s social edges.
Journalists in Canada are under increasing scrutiny for how we cover far-right groups, fringe political parties and protests against public health measures. How do we inform the public without giving a platform to misinformation? How do we ensure we are not censoring ideas or providing publicity to extremists? These questions strike at the larger question–what is the role of media in our democracy? On November 8, the journalism fellows of Massey College will host a panel of leading journalists and editors to discuss how they navigate these questions.
Join TVO’s Nam Kiwanuka, The Globe and Mail’s Public EditorSylvia Stead and Craig Silverman journalist and reporter with ProPublica in conversation. Moderated by St. Clair Balfour Fellow Jonathan Montpetit.
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Speakers
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Jonathan MontpetitJournalism Fellow, Massey CollegeJONATHAN MONTPETIT is an award-winning digital journalist at CBC Montreal and a William Southam Journalism Fellow at Massey College. He has spent the last several years reporting on Quebec politics, and has written extensively about the province’s “new nationalism,” its secularism debates, and the rise and fall of far-right groups. Before joining CBC, he worked for The Canadian Press, covering the war in Afghanistan and the earthquake in Haiti. He holds graduate degrees in political science from the London School of Economics and McGill University.
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Nam Kiwanuka
Nam Kiwanuka is co-host of TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Ontario’s leading daily primetime current affairs show, and host of The Agenda in the Summer. Prior to this, she was a MuchMusic VJ and Videographer; worked with CTV, Sportsnet; and was a columnist for the BBC’s Focus on Africa magazine. Nam has interviewed many high-profile personalities, including Salman Rushdie, Britney Spears.
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Sylvia Stead
Sylvia Stead is the first Public Editor of The Globe and Mail. She has been a journalist for more than 40 years starting as a reporter covering many beats including Ontario politics and education and then as national editor, deputy editor and now public editor. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a degree in Journalism and Political Science and is the mother of two and grandmother of two. She believes passionately in the importance of public service journalism at the local and national level.
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Craig Silverman
Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world’s leading experts on online disinformation, fake news, and digital investigations. He recently joined ProPublica as a reporter investigating voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. He’s also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series. Craig previously served as media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation and media manipulation. He received a George Polk Award in 2021 for a series of articles about Facebook, and is the recipient of the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association, which honors “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” His 2019 series exposing a global Facebook advertising scam was also named investigation of the year by the Canadian Association of Journalists. His journalism and books have also been honored by the Mirror Awards, U.S. National Press Club, National Magazine Awards (Canada), and Crime Writers of Canada.
