Beyond Journalism

CWA Canada is the country's only all media union, with 6,000 members at media companies and newspapers coast to coast. Our largest local, the Canadian Media Guild, represents members at media outlets such as VICE Canada, Corus, CBC, The Canadian Press, and Thomson Reuters.Get involved in one of our current projects aimed at improving working conditions in the media!Digital media organizing- hundreds of digital media workers have formed unions over the past year to gain a greater say in workplace decisions and to secure good working conditions. These include VICE Canada joining our union, and Huffington Post, MTV News, Salon, Slate and many others in the US.Fairness in Factual TVis our campaign to improve working conditions in Factual TV. We invite you tojoin with your industry colleaguesto improve standards and safety, and help make this a sustainable industry.CMG Freelanceis our voluntary membership for freelancers, designed to help fill the growing gaps in social security and workforce supports that are hallmarks of today’s harsh economy. CMG Freelance also represents self-employed journalists who contribute on a freelance basis to the CBC.CWA Canada Associate Membersis a new form of union membership dedicated to connecting student, volunteer and precarious (intern, temporary, part-time) media workers to each other, and to the resources they need to realize their creative and career goals. We offer training and networking opportunities, raise awareness about workplace rights, and we advocate for all media work to be valued and respected.We are a new form of union membership dedicated to connecting student, volunteer and precarious (intern, temporary, part-time) media workers to each other, and to the resources they need to realize their creative and career goals. We offer training and networking opportunities, we raise awareness about workplace rights, and we advocate for all media work to be valued and respected.www.emergingmediaworkers.ca

CWA Canada Associate Members

Join us for a free mixer and panel discussion on using your media skills to find different types of paid work and to make an impact on your community. Snacks and drinks will be provided!
Our speakers and mentors will share their experience and advice developing a sustainable and meaningful career within and beyond journalism. 
EVENT SCHEDULE:
6 – 7 PM and 8 – 9 PM      Mixer with other media workers and featured mentors 
7 - 8 PM                                Panel discussion 
SPEAKERS: 
Buffy Childerhose is a writer and  TV director who began her career in print and have covered everything from political assassinations in Cambodia to Scrabble championships in Montreal. She has been working on crime shows and assorted doc and docudramas for the last decade. The highlight of her career may have been slipping into a river of sewage while working with Doctors without Borders in Haiti. 
Angela Misri is a digital journalist and novelist who spent most of her career at CBC Radio producing podcasts, websites and online features. Most recently she has released three books in her popular Portia Adams Adventures series, featuring a Canadian detective in 1930s London. Angela spends her time writing detective stories, teaching at Ryerson University and covering the digital technology beat for various news organizations.
Veronica Simmonds is radio producer based in Toronto. Her documentaries have aired on ABC, BBC and CBC. She has also produced interactive documentary projects including a collaboration with Halifax Public Library called Stackstories and an ode to lake swimming called Body of Water. She also hosts a podcast called Braidio where she braids hair on air. 
Josephine Basch was born in Germany and spent her childhood traveling and living around the world. Having finally settled in Canada, she completed her secondary and post-secondary education in Toronto. As a teenager, Josephine developed a forum for her various artistic endeavors by way of a fanzine that brought together her photography and poetry, as well as interviews with local and visiting musicians. Her taste for the arts led her to attend Sheridan College, where she studied Media Arts and majored in Film. After College, she redirected her career and entered the music industry as a hip-hop concert producer for R.E.M.G. (Toronto’s top urban concert production company) where she promoted and produced shows for artists such as The Roots and Common. Josephine delved into print publication, when she settled in New York City. She helped to restructure Mugshot Magazine, a free monthly urban lifestyle/music publication. During her time with them, she acted as circulation and distribution manager, and went on to contribute several feature articles and cover stories. Though the magazine eventually folded, Josephine continued to pursue her passion for writing. To date, she has contributed to various print publications and websites including the Source, Scratch Magazine, Campus Circle, Rime Magazine, Street Masters, hiphopdx.com, ozy.com, theurbandaily.com and spitkicker.com, for which she later became Managing Editor. Never one to settle on one specific style of artistic expression, her years spent living in Brooklyn served as inspiration for her foray into poetry. Aside from her journalistic endeavors and poetry, she has also worked on comics and graphic novels and graffiti-style art books about love. Josephine is currently an editor for the Environment Programme of the United Nations (UNEP).
 
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EVENT PARTNER is CMG FREELANCE - a union for working freelancers. Check them out at: www.cmgfreelance.ca
This venue is wheelchair accessible.

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