Behind the City Beat: A Pre-Election Media Panel

Behind the City Beat: A Pre-Election Media Panel

By Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance

Date and time

Tue, Oct 2, 2018 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM EDT

Location

Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7 Canada

Description

What are the policy issues that matter leading into the 2018 Ontario municipal election? What goes into covering the city hall press beat? How has the media landscape changed in recent years, with the decline of traditional media and in the era of ‘fake news'? What have these changes meant for reporting on municipal affairs? How have journalists learned to adapt and stay relevant?

On October 2, join IMFG and School of Cities for a panel discussion of journalists ahead of the upcoming election.

Speakers

  • Adrienne Batra, Editor in Chief, Toronto Sun
  • Matt Elliott, Municipal affairs analyst, CBC
  • Noor Javed, Staff Reporter (GTA/York Region), Toronto Star
  • John Michael McGrath, Digital Media Producer, TVO
  • Maria Saras-Voutsinas, Executive Director, National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada
  • Rob Steiner, Director, Fellowship in Global Journalism and Professor of Global Practice, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (Moderator)


This event is co-sponsored by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and the School of Cities at the University of Toronto.

Featured photo by Jon S via Flickr

Organized by

The Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), at the School of Cities, focuses on the fiscal health and governance challenges facing large cities and city-regions in Canada, and develops solutions through original research and programming. 

www.imfg.org

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