By Tamara Merritt It could not have been a better venue — the home of the country’s oldest journalism school in the heart of the national capital — to host a discussion about how best to educate the next generation of Canadian political journalists. The final panel of the Reimagining Political Journalism conference at Carleton …

By Tamara Merritt “Follow the money.” That was the popular adage about truth-seeking in journalism that framed the discussion during Sunday’s first panel at the Reimagining Political Journalism Conference at Carleton University. But the ensuing conversation between moderator Joanne Chianello and the five panelists — journalists Emma McIntosh, Kate Porter, Martin Lukacs, John Woodside and …

By Tamara Merritt Themes of trust, audience engagement, and a fractured media landscape emerged during a panel discussion Saturday about the challenge of improving political journalism. Moderated by Lucy van Oldenbarneveld, former news anchor for CBC Ottawa, five panelists took on the challenge of dissecting the question: “How do we make political coverage stronger and …

By Tamara Merritt It was a conversation that unfolded Friday evening under a “Reimagining Political Journalism” banner stretched wide across the Richcraft Hall auditorium stage at Carleton University. And the three-way panel discussion responding to political columnist Jeet Heer’s provocative keynote address — “Fact-Checking Won’t Save Democracy” — took the weekend-long conference’s first steps toward …