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Digital News Innovation: Framing the Challenge

341 Yonge St, Toronto, ON M5B 1S1, Canada

43.65779709999999 -79.38109829999996

DMZ Sandbox

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Looking to learn more about the Digital News Innovation Challenge, help evolve your business model or meet the team behind the program? Join us at the Sandbox by DMZ (341 Yonge St, Suite 312, Toronto, ON M5B 1S1 - on the corner of Yonge and Gould) on January 25, 2018 where program mentors, partners and industry leaders will come together to discuss the program, answer questions and help validate your idea. The event will feature Canada's leading journalists, researchers and experts in digital news and mainstream media who will discuss the evolving landscape of journalism and the news industry. How to get to the venue Enter the Ryerson Student Learning Centre (SLC) at Yonge and Gould and walk up the stairs or take the elevators up the third floor. Agenda 1:00 p.m. - Program launch and Q&A with program partners and advisors. Moderator: April Lindgren, Associate Professor, Ryerson School of Journalism at FCAD Speakers: Abdullah Snobar, Executive Director, DMZ Janice Neil, Chair, Ryerson School of Journalism at FCAD Charles Falzon, Dean, Ryerson FCAD Kevin Chan, Head of Public Policy Canada, Facebook and Instagram Richard Lachman, Director of Zone Learning, Ryerson University 2:00 p.m. - Keynote: Challenges facing news, journalism and audiences in Canada. The challenges facing news, journalism, and audiences in Canada -- critiques as well as a call to action for the practitioners, innovators, and young people. Speaker: Jesse Wente, Ojibwe broadcaster, curator, producer and public speaker 2:30 p.m. - Workshop: Evolving audiences and the impact on news organizations. How do modern ways of thinking about active audiences change the way news organizations need to think? What is there beyond citizen-journalism and how do we involve people in the process, while preserving the value of studied insight? How do we get beyond toxic comment threads? Moderator: Asmaa Malik, Assistant Professor, Ryerson School of Journalism at FCAD Speakers: Mike De Souza, Managing Editor, National Observer Catherine Cano, President, CPAC Rachel Pulfer, Executive Director at Journalists for Human Rights Kenny Yum, Chief of Staff, CBC News 3:30 p.m. - Break 3:45 p.m. - Workshop: Local and community challenges and the impact digital innovations have had on local news coverage. Business and digital innovations have, in particular, had a huge impact on local news coverage. What are the dangers of this change and what are people doing to confront them? Moderator: Gavin Adamson, Associate Chair and Undergraduate Program Director, Ryerson School of Journalism Speakers: April Lindgren, Associate Professor, Ryerson School of Journalism at FCAD Laura Ellis, Head of Online - English Regions, BBC Alice Klein, Editor, Now Magazine Radha Tailor, Senior Correspondent, Bramptonist 4:15 p.m. - Workshop: News and online platforms and how to gauge what mediums work best for consumption and engagement in today's digital media landscape. We are increasingly getting our news and information from emerging platforms that weren't purpose-built for journalism. We're seeing the social impacts of this shift around the world, as well as the actions taken by those platforms to address these concerns. What are platforms doing, what are next steps then can be doing, and what behaviours and practices we are seeing from audiences as a result of these trends? Moderator: Richard Lachman, Director of Zone Learning, Ryerson University Speakers: Marc Dinsdale, Head of Media Partnerships, Facebook Canada Jane Lytvynenko, Reporter, BuzzFeed Shauna Rempel, National Managing Editor, Global News Jenna Jacobson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Social Media Lab 5:00 p.m. - Workshop: Evolving business models and the impacts of an advertising-based model on traditional journalism. We are seeing the impacts of an advertising-based model on traditional journalism. What are new and interesting approaches to creating sustainable alternative models? Moderator: Emilia Zboralska, Instructor and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, Ryerson University Speakers: Mario Vasilescu, CEO/Co-Founder, Rewordly Inc. Erin Millar, CEO and Founder, Discourse Media Ryan McMahon, CEO and Chief Creative Producer, Indian and Cowboy Media Sean Stanleigh, Managing Editor, Globe Edge 5:45 p.m. - Program recap and closing remarks. 6:00 p.m. - Reception and networking *Live outside of Toronto? We'll be live streaming the event on Facebook! Sign up for the Digital News Innovation Challenge mailing list and be the first to know about program, livestream and event updates. Find out more about the program at digitalnewsinnovation.ca About the partners The DMZ The DMZ at Ryerson University is the leading business incubator for technology startups in Canada. The top-ranked university incubator in North America and third in the world, it helps high-potential startups grow and scale their business by connecting them with customers, capital, coaches and a community of innovators. Since launching in 2010, it has incubated over 300 startups that have raised $395 million in seed funding and have fostered the creation of more than 2,980 jobs. Ryerson School of Journalism at FCAD One of the top-ranked journalism schools in Canada, the Ryerson School of Journalism at FCAD has been educating journalists and pushing the boundaries of journalism for nearly seven decades. With highly experienced and award-winning faculty, state-of-the-art facilities, and close connections to industry, the RSJ is at the forefront of knowledge creation, practical change and hands-on learning for the future of journalism in Canada. Facebook Journalism Project The Facebook Journalism Project aims to establish stronger ties between Facebook and the news industry. They collaborate with news organizations to develop products, learning from journalists about ways Facebook can be a better partner, and working with publishers and educators on how Facebook can equip people with the knowledge they need to be informed readers in the digital age. Through the development of collaborative news products and training and tools for journalists, Facebook aims to bring journalism into the digital age.

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