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Jeet Heer<\/strong> is a national affairs correspondent for New York City-based The Nation<\/em> and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column \u201cMorbid Symptoms.\u201d The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly\u2019s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman<\/em> (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles<\/em> (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker<\/em>, The Paris Review<\/em>, Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>, The American Prospect<\/em>, The Guardian<\/em>, The New Republic<\/em>, and The Boston Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Conference chair Adrian Harewood<\/strong> is an associate professor at Carleton University\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication. He completed a BA in Political Theory & History at McGill University and a MA in History at Carleton University. In 2023, he was the inaugural winner of the Faculty of Global and Public Affairs award for contributions towards equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization. Adrian has been a journalist for three decades. He was the host of CBC Ottawa\u2019s All in a Day<\/em> for three years, and then anchor of CBC Ottawa\u2019s News at Six<\/em> for 13 years. He was a 2017 nominee for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Interviewer, and in 2020 he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Local Anchor. For seven years, Adrian hosted the CBC weekly cultural magazine show Our Ottawa<\/em>. Adrian has guest hosted many national and local programs on radio and television, including The Current<\/em>, As It Happens<\/em>, Sounds Like Canada,<\/em> The House, Counterspin, Hot Type <\/em>and Power & Politics<\/em>. Adrian was also the host of a series of programs on BRAVO and PBS including Literati<\/em>, The Actors<\/em>, The Directors<\/em>, Playwrights & Screenwriters<\/em>. Adrian also hosted CBC Radio\u2019s 2010 FIFA World Cup Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andy Clarke<\/strong> is a professor of journalism and the journalism program coordinator at Loyalist College in Belleville. He came to Loyalist from the CBC where, among other things, he ran the CBC Ottawa newsroom . During his time at Loyalist, he has shepherded a number of projects focused on politics, including a journalism student-led youth voter engagement project called \u201cSo You Think I Should Vote?\u201d  He also led a project designed to improve local news coverage in the Bay of Quinte region. Generally popular with students, he gets complaints every year for making them read staff reports in the posted agenda before they cover city council meetings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christopher Dornan<\/strong> is a retired Carleton journalism professor and co-editor of a  forthcoming volume on The Canadian Federal Election of 2025<\/em> \u2014 the latest in a long-running series of post-vote essay collections co-edited with Carleton political scientist Jon Pammett. Dornan holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University, an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Communication from McGill University. He taught for two years at Cornell University before joining the faculty at Carleton in 1987. He has worked as a reporter for the Edmonton Journal<\/em>, an editor and editorial writer for the Ottawa Citizen<\/em>, and a columnist for The Globe and Mail<\/em> and CBC National Radio. He was a principal writer and editor for both volumes of the 2012 government-mandated Aerospace Review (the Emerson Report), the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s 2014 Space Policy Framework, and the Public Policy Forum\u2019s landmark 2016 report on the state of the Canadian news media, Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age<\/em>. Dornan\u2019s recent writings, including many features and columns published by The Hill Times<\/em>, appear at educatedguesses.ca<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kathryn Gretsinger<\/strong> is an associate professor of teaching in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia. She is a longtime public broadcaster at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with a record of creating award-winning work at the local and national level in Canada. Kathryn is also a Killam Teaching Prize winner and she was named as one of North America\u2019s top innovative journalism educators in 2018. Kathryn leads the School\u2019s Integrated Journalism course, where students learn about professional practice, journalism skills and digital technologies. She also coordinates the School\u2019s internship program and supports students transitioning into professional practice. She has helped to place students in professional practicums across the country and around the world.
She is a key member of the Global Reporting Centre, where she works as an instructor and producer for the annual Global Reporting Program projects and helps to shape conversations about local and global journalism. She is also an instructor for UBC\u2019s unique Reporting in Indigenous Communities course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Conference coordinator Ely Pittman<\/strong> is a second-year student in the Carleton\u2019s Master of Journalism program. They completed an English Literature degree (Hons.) at Memorial University where they were an active leader in student governance, disability justice and community organizing. They enjoy colour-coded spreadsheets, reading books on rainy days and trying out different tea blends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tim Abray <\/strong>has been a communications, policy and strategy leader for three decades, working at the intersection of the public and private sectors. In early 2024, he completed a doctorate in politics at Queen\u2019s University, studying the effects of political communication on voter cognition, behaviour, and decision-making. Tim began his career as a radio news reporter and anchor and continues to draw on those early experiences in his work with diverse organizations and publics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trish Audette-Longo<\/strong> teaches digital journalism and reporting. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University, an MSc in Media, Communication and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University. Trish has covered the environment, politics and crime beats for The Edmonton Journal and managed digital engagement for National Observer. Her reporting has appeared in a cross-section of Postmedia publications, J-Source, Alberta Views, and the Hill Times, and her academic work has been published in the International Journal of Communication, Resilience, Topia, Development in Practice and the Canadian Journal of Communication. Trish\u2019s research interests include: digital, start-up and alternative journalism and media; journalism education; climate change and petroculture studies. She is the recipient of the 2022 Faculty of Public Affairs Teaching Fellowship Excellence Award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Candis Callison<\/strong> is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts<\/em> (Duke U Press, 2014) and the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism\u2019s Limits and Possibilities<\/em> (Oxford U Press, 2020). Candis is currently working on a long term research project about the role of journalism and media in Arctic and northern regions. She is a member of the T\u0101\u0142t\u0101n Nation and a regular contributor to the podcast, Media Indigena<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Joanne Chianello<\/strong> was an award-winning reporter and broadcaster for more than three decades, during which she worked for The Financial Post, Ottawa Citizen and, most recently, CBC Ottawa. She made her mark covering Ottawa City Hall for more than a decade, and her work included investigations into the troubled LRT \u2013 resulting in Ontario\u2019s first-ever provincial inquiry \u2013 and abuse of power by one of council\u2019s longest-serving members. Since leaving journalism in 2023, Joanne has been a Senior Advisor on municipal issues with consulting firm StrategyCorp, and volunteers with several community organizations to support their advocacy efforts. Joanne graduated with a combined Honours of Bachelor of Journalism and Political Science degree from Carleton University quite some time ago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Veldon Coburn<\/strong> is an Anishinaabe associate professor and faculty chair of the Indigenous Relations Initiative at McGill University. He is also an assistant professor in the Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Ottawa. He holds a PhD in political studies from Queens. Veldon\u2019s areas of interest include identity politics, settler colonialism, postcolonial theory, Canadian-Indigenous politics and state and power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Cohen<\/strong> is an author, columnist and broadcaster who was a full-time professor with Carleton\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication from 2001 to 2024. He is currently an adjunct professor. In a career of 40 years, he has worked in Ottawa, Toronto, Washington, London and Berlin. He has written for The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, United Press International, Time, CNN.com, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications. His books cover subjects ranging from Canada\u2019s constitutional politics to national character to Arctic exploration. His study of Canadian foreign policy \u2014 While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World<\/em> \u2014 was a finalist for the Governor General\u2019s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His other best-selling books explore the lives of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Lester B. Pearson. His latest book is Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy\u2019s 48 Hours That Made History<\/em>, which has been optioned as a feature film in Hollywood. Cohen has won two National Newspaper Awards, three National Magazine Awards and the Queen\u2019s Jubilee Medal. He wrote a syndicated column for The Ottawa Citizen and is a political commentator on CTV News Channel. A native of Montreal, Cohen attended The Choate School in Connecticut, followed by McGill University, Carleton University and the University of Cambridge. He has degrees in political science, journalism and international relations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Desmond Cole<\/strong> is a journalist, activist and author based in Toronto. His work focuses on struggles against state violence, particularly local policing. He has produced works for live news radio, podcasts, magazines, and newspapers in Toronto and across Canada. Desmond\u2019s 2020 book, “The Skin We’re In, A Year of Black Resistance and Power,” is a national bestseller. In June of 2024, Desmond received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Ontario Tech University for his work combating anti-Black racism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ethan Cox<\/strong> is the co-founder and senior editor of Ricochet Media<\/em> and a 2021 Michener-Deacon Investigative Fellow. His writing has appeared in many national and international outlets, and he has won three national awards for investigative journalism. Ethan is also a television pundit in Montreal and a board member with Montreal-based refugee sponsor For the Refugees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christopher Curtis<\/strong> the co-founder of The Rover, a news website that specializes in long form storytelling and investigative journalism. He spent his formative years working in construction before doing a nine-year stint at the Montreal Gazette. He\u2019s won two Canadian Association of Journalists awards, was awarded the Medal of the National Assembly and the Prix Judith Jasmin, the highest honour in Quebec journalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Daly<\/strong> is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax where he teaches reporting and editing across all platforms. He joined King’s following a 26-year career as a newspaper, television, and radio journalist. Brian broke political and justice stories, at the New Brunswick legislature, for The Canadian Press where he also reported from Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill. He was CP’s lead reporter at the Gomery inquiry into the federal sponsorship scandal and was a decision-desk producer, on two Quebec elections, at CTV News. Brian has covered numerous elections and budgets across five provinces at all three levels of government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brooks DeCillia<\/strong> spent more than 20 years reporting and producing news at CBC. These days, he teaches at Mount Royal University’s School of Communication Studies. His research focuses on the nexus of media and public opinion. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mickey Djuric<\/strong> is an Ottawa-based reporter with Politico covering federal politics. Mickey was previously a reporter with the Canadian Press in Ottawa and Saskatchewan, CBC Regina and Global News in Saskatchewan. Mickey was the founder, editor and publisher of the Daily Jaw news site serving Moose Jaw and was previously with the Moose Jaw Times Herald.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amira Elghawaby<\/strong> was appointed Canada\u2019s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia in January 2023 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Ms. Elghawaby, an expert on issues of equity and inclusion and a human rights advocate, was previously a journalist. A frequent media commentator, she has delivered keynote presentations and workshops to a wide variety of audiences. Ms. Elghawaby previously worked as Director of Strategic Communications and Campaigns at the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and was a contributing columnist for the Toronto Star<\/em>. She also previously held  communications roles in Canada\u2019s labour movement and at the National Council of Canadian Muslims. She started her career at the CBC,  where she worked and freelanced as a reporter and associate producer over the span of 14 years. Ms. Elghawaby holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Journalism and Law from Carleton University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Charelle Evelyn<\/strong> is managing editor of The Hill Times<\/em>. Raised in British Columbia, she graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University in 2008. Formerly a reporter with the Prince George Citizen<\/em>, she joined Hill Times Publishing in 2016, where previous roles include reporter and associate editor of The Wire Report, and deputy editor of The Hill Times<\/em>. Charelle regularly appears as a panellist on CBC\u2019s Power and Politics and CTV\u2019s Question Period, and teaches journalism at Carleton University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Justin Fiacconi <\/strong>is in the final year of the Master of Journalism program at Carleton University. Before this, he obtained his MA degree in International Affairs from Carleton University. He hopes to produce journalism relating to themes such as human rights, international political conflicts, foreign policy, elections, and socio-political movements. However, his primary area of interest is the overlap between international politics and global sports and the concept of \u201csportswashing.\u201d Justin has had internships with Farm Radio International and the CBC Parliamentary Bureau. He is from Sault Ste. Marie, and he loves to travel and play sports in his spare time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Fife<\/strong> is the Ottawa Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail<\/em>. Covering national politics since 1978, Fife began his career in the parliamentary bureau of NewsRadio and later United Press International (Canada). He worked as a senior political reporter for Canadian Press and spent a decade as Ottawa Bureau Chief and Political Columnist for the Sun Media chain. Before joining the Globe and Mail <\/em>in 2015, Fife was CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief and host of Question Period. Fife is also the author of several books: A Capital Scandal: Politics, Patronage and Payoff<\/em>; Why Parliament Must Be Reformed<\/em>; and Kim Campbell: The Making of a Politician<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brett Forester<\/strong> is a reporter and broadcaster with CBC Indigenous in Ottawa. His work focuses on national Indigenous issues, politics, human rights, government accountability and freedom of information. He is a proud member of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation in southern Ontario who previously worked as a reporter, host and producer for APTN News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rick Harp <\/strong>was bit hard by the radio bug at Carleton University’s campus\/community station CKCU-FM back in the ’90s. His 30-odd-years in broadcasting includes national and regional stints at CBC Radio, NCI-FM, and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). The founding host\/producer of the Indigenous current affairs podcast MEDIA INDIGENA (now in its eighth year), he also anchors the APTN News Brief podcast. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Rick is part of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in what’s presently known as Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tara Henley<\/strong> is a Canadian journalist and the author of the national bestseller Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life<\/em>. Her 22-year career spans TV, radio, online media, magazines, and newspapers. She has worked as a producer on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and on current affairs morning and afternoon shows at CBC Radio, in both Vancouver and Toronto. Henley’s CBC radio documentary “39” was a finalist at the New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards. A former books columnist for The Toronto Star, and for Metro Morning, Toronto’s top morning radio show, Henley is a contributor to the books section of The Globe and Mail. Her writing has appeared in outlets across Canada and around the world, and she now runs a popular current affairs Substack newsletter, Lean Out. Her weekly interview podcast of the same name has listeners in more than 150 countries and 5,000 cities worldwide. Henley wrote the 2024 Massey Essay on the media, a partnership between Massey College at the University of Toronto and the Literary Review of Canada. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Erica Ifill<\/strong> is an economist and journalist who founded Not In My Colour, an equity and inclusion consultancy that builds inclusive workplaces. She is the co-founder and co-host of the Bad + Bitchy podcast, which focuses on politics and pop culture from an intersectional feminist perspective. She is a columnist for The Hill Times<\/em>, where she writes about federal politics and economics with an equity lens, and her bylines have appeared in Maclean\u2019s<\/em>, Press Progress and The Globe and Mail<\/em>. Ifill can also be seen speaking about equity and politics on CBC, CTV and CPAC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Omayra Issa<\/strong> is a news anchor at the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC). Prior to her January 2024 appointment to the CPAC team, Issa was a national reporter for CBC News, where she co-created and co-produced the series Black on the Prairies. Issa began her career at Radio-Canada in Saskatoon and anchored T\u00e9l\u00e9journal Saskatchewan. The former board member of the Canadian Association of Journalists was named one of Canada\u2019s Top 100 Black Women to Watch (2019) and nominated for a YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2019).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Evy Kwong <\/strong>is an independent journalist and storyteller whose passion is getting equitable information and news to a wider audience. She started at the Toronto Star, building millions of diverse followers and younger audiences across the newspaper\u2019s social platforms to drive back to the website with columns like Millennial Money and #InTheirOwnVoices. After seven years, she moved to VICE News to cover US politics, world politics, and cults. She also managed the social team at VICE News, guiding and training reporters, editors, and producers on how to tell visual stories on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, growing millions of followers. Now, she\u2019s the acting associate director at WIRED managing a team across the US and UK on technofascism and guides on social platforms from Bluesky to Threads. She\u2019s an avid food lover, you can probably find her in Toronto\u2019s Chinatown, and is currently working on a personal project on retracing her lineage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Luke LeBrun<\/strong> is an investigative reporter and the Editor of the non-profit news organization PressProgress. His reporting is focused on federal public policy along with right-wing politics and far-right extremism. Joining shortly after the Broadbent Institute launched PressProgress in 2013 as its news division, Luke has overseen the growth and evolution of the online publication as its team of full-time unionized reporters has expanded to several provinces. Luke\u2019s original reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic, Freedom Convoy and many election campaigns have been cited widely by media outlets across Canada. Luke\u2019s writing on Canadian politics has also appeared on occasion in the Toronto Star<\/em> and the Hill Times<\/em>. He was named by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression as 2024 winner of the The Arnold Amber Award for Investigative Journalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Catherine L\u00e9vesque<\/strong> is a parliamentary reporter at the National Post<\/em>. Prior to this, she worked for the Canadian Press and HuffPost reporting on parliamentary affairs. She also makes occasional appearances on CPAC and CBC News: The National.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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April Lindgren<\/strong> is a professor at the School of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University, the founder and co-director of the Local News Research Project. She is also editor-in-chief of the Local News Data Hub, a reporting initiative committed to training early-career data journalists and shoring up local journalism by supplying newsrooms with data-driven stories. Her research, which includes co-creating and managing the crowd-sourced Local News Map to track changes to local news ecosystems, investigates local news poverty and the role of local journalism as critical community infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Harrison Lowman<\/strong> is the Managing Editor of The Hub<\/em>, one of Canada’s fastest growing digital news and commentary sites.  He has worked for more than a decade in journalism, including at TVO\u2019s The Agenda with Steve Paikin<\/em>, CBC News, CTV National News,The Literary Review of Canada, The Munk Debates, Tara Henley’s Lean Out <\/em>podcast, and had a brief stint at the BBC World Service. He\u2019s also a Carleton J-School grad and an enthusiastic Scout leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Martin Lukacs<\/strong> is a journalist and the managing editor of The Breach, an award-winning independent outlet launched in 2021. He\u2019s a former environmental writer for The Guardian, and has written for The New York Review of Books, Toronto Star, Walrus, CBC, and other Canadian publications. He\u2019s the author of The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Duncan McCue<\/strong>, an award-winning CBC broadcaster and leading advocate for fostering the connection between journalism and Indigenous communities, joined Carleton University\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication in 2023 as an Associate Professor specializing in Indigenous Journalism and (Story)telling. In addition, McCue is working with Carleton colleagues to launch a new journalism skills certificate on the ground in Indigenous communities. McCue was with CBC News for 25 years. In addition to hosting CBC Radio One\u2019s Cross Country Checkup, he was a longstanding correspondent for CBC-TV\u2019s flagship news show, The National. McCue comes to Carleton with extensive experience as an educator, having taught journalism and created courses at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism and Toronto Metropolitan University and also as a visiting fellow at Carleton. Over the years he developed a unique online resource, Reporting in Indigenous Communities, which inspired his latest work, a new textbook called Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities<\/em>. McCue studied English at the University of King\u2019s College, then did his law degree at UBC. He was called to the bar in British Columbia in 1998. McCue is Anishinaabe, a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Emma McIntosh<\/strong> is an Ontario reporter for The Narwhal. She was part of the joint Narwhal-Toronto Star team that won a Michener Award for their coverage of the Greenbelt scandal. Emma McIntosh is a reporter based in Toronto who really likes being outside. She started her career in newspapers, working for the Calgary Herald, the Toronto Star and StarMetro Calgary before finishing her journalism degree at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2018. Before coming to The Narwhal, she also spent two years at National Observer. She became the treasurer of the Queen’s Park Press Gallery in 2021. Alongside The Narwhal’s managing editor Mike De Souza, she won the 2019 Journalists for Human Rights\/Canadian Association of Journalists Award for human rights reporting for a story about how a leak from the Alberta oilsands affected the Fort McKay First Nation. Stories she’s worked on have also been shortlisted for a host of other awards, including the Canadian Journalism Foundation\u2019s Jackman Award for excellence in journalism and the Canadian Hillman Prize. Emma is a former Seattleite and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Angela Misri i<\/strong>s a Toronto journalist and novelist and an assistant professor of journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University. Angela worked at the CBC for 14 years before becoming the Digital Director for The Walrus<\/em>. She writes about digital journalism, technology, politics and pop culture for many different media outlets,  including the Globe and Mail, CBC, The Walrus, Global TV<\/em>, and is the author of seven novels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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David Moscrop<\/strong> is a freelance writer, author, and podcaster covering Canadian and US politics. His work has appeared in major news outlets in Canada and around the world, including the Washington Post<\/em>, the Globe and Mail<\/em>, and the Guardian<\/em>. His first book Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones<\/em> was released in 2018. He also runs a popular Substack cleverly titled David Moscrop<\/em>. He lives in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Mrozowski <\/strong>is the president of the Canadian University Press, North America\u2019s largest student newspaper cooperative. He is also the executive editor of the Silhouette<\/em> at McMaster University, where he strives to ensure the student newspaper is giving a platform to marginalized communities or voices that need to be amplified. Andrew graduated from McMaster in 2021 with a bachelor of arts in political science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Emilie Nicolas <\/strong>is an anthropologist, consultant and columnist for Le Devoir<\/em> and Lib\u00e9ration<\/em> and previously for The Montreal Gazette<\/em>. She hosts the Canadaland podcast D\u00e9tours. She\u2019s also a member of the Master of Public Policy teaching faculty at McGill University\u2019s Max Bell School of Public Policy. A long-time social justice advocate, Emilie is a co-founder of Qu\u00e9bec inclusif (2013), a movement that actively unites citizens against racism and social exclusion. She also initiated a coalition campaigning for equality and against systemic racism in Quebec (2016). Her writing is widely published, both in French and English, and she is a frequent media commentator, analyst and public speaker on human rights issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Caroline O\u2019Neill<\/strong> is an instructor in the Media Production and Design program at Carleton University\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication. Caroline is  a Canadian Screen Award-winning producer who most recently spent three seasons working on CTV\u2019s flagship daily politics program Power Play. Caroline started her journalism career as a morning show reporter on APTN\u2019s radio station 95.7 ELMNT FM. She\u2019s a graduate of Carleton\u2019s undergraduate journalism program and is currently enrolled in the J-School\u2019s Master of Journalism program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pam Palmater<\/strong> is an award-winning Mikmaw lawyer, Indigenous rights advocate, educator and public speaker from Eel River Bar First Nation. She works through various mediums including podcasts and documentary films. She holds four university degrees, including a doctorate in law focusing on Indigenous rights from Dalhousie University. She was named one of Canada\u2019s Top 25 Movers and Shakers and Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers. She currently serves as professor and chair of Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Raisa Patel <\/strong>is a national political reporter with the Toronto Star. She has covered federal politics since 2019. Before joining the Star, she worked as a producer on CBC’s flagship political radio program, The House, and as an online reporter with the broadcaster’s Parliament Hill team. She has also covered local news for CBC Ottawa. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda Pfeffer<\/strong> is host of CBC Radio’s provincial open line program, Ontario Today. She has been a journalist with the CBC Ottawa newsroom for more than a decade.  Her career has taken her coast to coast for CBC, reporting for newsrooms in Vancouver, Fredericton, Montreal, and Quebec City.  She has been recognized for her work by the Jack Webster Foundation, the RTNDA and the Canadian Association of Journalists, and has sat on the board of the Canadian Association of Journalists.  She received a master\u2019s degree in journalism from Carleton University in 2011, with a thesis focused on the French\/English divide in federal election coverage at the public broadcaster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kate Porter<\/strong>, a veteran Ottawa City Hall reporter for the CBC, joined Carleton University\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication in 2023 to teach courses on audio and video journalism, civic institutions, and the future of journalism in the face of misinformation. Porter\u2019s 20 years at CBC began on Ottawa\u2019s local afternoon radio show while studying journalism at Carleton University. She has anchored radio newscasts, provided live analysis during elections, covered the public inquiry into Ottawa\u2019s light rail system, and produced many multi-platform deep dives about urban issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Karyn Pugliese<\/strong>, aka Pab\u00e0m\u00e0diz, is co-host of the Auntie Up! podcast with Makwa Creative and a member of the board of directors of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. She has previously been the editor-in-chief of Canadaland and Canada’s National Observer. Karyn was also the Managing Editor of CBC’s Investigative Unit, overseeing the team at The Fifth Estate and Marketplace. Karyn is best known for her work as a Parliament Hill reporter and as the Executive Director of News and Current Affairs at APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) where she ran the news department for seven years. She joined Toronto Metropolitan University’s faculty in the Spring of 2020 while completing a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Karyn has won numerous awards for her work, including the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism, the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism, and the Elias Boudinot Free Press Award from the Native American Journalists Association. In April 2023, she was awarded the Canadian Association of Journalists\u2019 Charles Bury Award for her \u201cefforts to inspire change in how Canadian journalism covers Indigenous stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Ramzy <\/strong>is an Egyptian-Canadian political reporter in the Toronto Star’s Ottawa Bureau. He has reported from Parliament Hill since September 2023 and is a student at Carleton University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Niigaan Sinclair<\/strong> is Anishinaabe from Peguis First Nation and a professor at the University of Manitoba, where he holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics in the Department of Indigenous Studies. He is the award-winning author of the national bestseller W\u00eenip\u00eak: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre<\/em> (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) and was co-editor of Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water<\/em> (Highwater Press), – the book voted by Manitobans in the \u201cOn the Same Page\u201d competition as the top book to read in 2012. Niigaan is a multiple nominee of Canadian columnist of the year (winning in 2018) and is a featured commentator on CBC’s Power & Politics<\/em> who was recently named to the \u201cPower List\u201d by Maclean\u2019s magazine as one of the most influential individuals in Canada. He is also a former secondary school teacher who won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah St-Pierre<\/strong> is originally from Drummondville, Que. She is pursuing journalism at Carleton after graduating with a B.A. Honours in International Development Studies from McGill University in 2023. Through her studies, Sarah has become particularly interested in the weight of narratives in reporting and the responsibility of ethical, critical journalism owed to vulnerable communities and individuals. After completing the MJ program, she hopes to work in print journalism with a focus on politics, international relations, and the economy. At McGill, she acted as the Editor-in-Chief for Catalyst<\/em>, the student-run news publication covering international development where she first discovered her love for journalism. She has completed an internship with CIM Magazine<\/em>, covering the mining industry, and now works as a freelance writer and translator. In her spare time, Sarah is usually trying out new recipes in the kitchen, indulging in fibre crafts, or overthinking about storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tanya Talaga<\/strong> is an Anishinaabe journalist and speaker. Talaga\u2019s mother\u2019s family is from Fort William First Nation and her father was Polish-Canadian. For more than 20 years, she was a journalist at the Toronto Star<\/em> covering everything from health to education, investigations and Queen\u2019s Park. She\u2019s been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism and been part of teams that won two National Newspaper Awards for Project of the Year. Her first book, Seven Fallen Feathers<\/em>, is a national bestseller and won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Her second book, All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward<\/em>, is also a national bestseller. Her latest book, the newly published The Knowing<\/em>, explores<\/em> Talaga\u2019s family\u2019s story and is a retelling of the history of the country now called Canada. Talaga was the 2017\u20132018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, the first Anishinaabe woman to be so. Talaga heads up Makwa Creative Inc., a production company focused on amplifying Indigenous voices through documentary films, TV and podcasts. She holds an honorary doctorate from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kory Teneycke<\/strong> is the co-founder and CEO of Ontario-based public affairs and government relations firm Rubicon Strategy Inc. He\u2019s also the former vice-president of the Sun News Network. Over the past 30 years, he\u2019s made his mark in politics, lobbying, public relations and the media. He was the Director of Communications in the Prime Minister’s Office under Stephen Harper and the campaign manager for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 2018 and 2022 provincial elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lucy van Oldenbarneveld <\/strong>is the principal at Lucy van Oldenbarneveld Communications and a former news anchor for CBC Ottawa News at 6. Her work with CBC saw her reporting on major stories across the country. She has been involved in journalism training in different parts of Africa, including Abuja, Nigeria. Lucy was previously the host\/reporter of the afternoon radio show at CBC Whitehorse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marie Vastel<\/strong> is a political columnist at Le Devoir<\/em>. Before that appointment, Vastel had been a parliamentary correspondent for Le Devoir<\/em> since 2011. She worked the parliamentary beat for the Canadian Press for two years prior. In 2020, Vastel was a correspondent in Washington during the American presidential elections, and conducted press trips to Europe, Afghanistan, Taiwan and Japan. She regularly collaborates as a news commentator with the French-speaking and English-speaking networks of CBC\/Radio-Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aaron Wherry<\/strong>, CBC senior writer and political affairs columnist, has covered Parliament Hill since 2007. He has previously written for the Globe and Mail, Maclean\u2019s and the National Post. Wherry is the author of Promise & Peril, a bestselling book about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s first four years in office. He has also been a sportswriter and music critic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Patrick White <\/strong>has been a professor of journalism at University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) since 2019. Prior to that, Mr. White was managing editor of Huffington Post Quebec; editor-in-chief of Canoe.ca; chief news editor at Le Journal de Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> in Quebec City; deputy chief news editor at The Canadian Press French news service; as well as correspondent for Reuters and field producer for CTV National News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Woodside<\/strong> is Canada\u2019s National Observer\u2019s Senior Ottawa Reporter. He focuses on climate finance, lobbying, energy policy and the climate emergency. Before joining Canada\u2019s National Observer, Woodside was a reporter at allNewfoundlandLabrador, Saint John Editor with allNewBrunswick, and a producer with Cited Media. Woodside\u2019s reporting has been cited in shareholder resolutions, contributed to policy changes, and triggered a call from the White House to Ottawa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Natasha Baldin<\/strong> is a fourth-year journalism and linguistics student at Carleton University and is super thrilled to be part of the Reimagining Political Journalism conference news team. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Charlatan, Carleton\u2019s student-run newspaper, where she leads a team of dedicated reporters in producing on and off-campus student-driven news coverage. As a freelance writer and fact-checker, Natasha also has bylines with publications such as the Ottawa Citizen<\/em>, Victoria News<\/em> and THIS Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nkele Martin<\/strong> is a fourth-year student in the Bachelor of Journalism program at Carleton University and a member of the conference news team. He has reported on social justice issues, sports, arts & culture and more. His work has appeared in New World Athletics<\/em>, CBC, Canadian Running Magazine <\/em>and The Charlatan. He was awarded Carleton\u2019s CTV Scholarship in Broadcast Journalism and spend a semester in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tamara Merritt<\/strong> is a second-year student in Carleton\u2019s Master of Journalism program and a member of the conference news team. With a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Global and International Studies she is interested in politics both within Canada and outside of it. She has bylines with publications including The Ottawa Citizen<\/em>, Iceland Review<\/em> and Capital Current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allan Thompson<\/strong> is an associate professor at Carleton University and director of its School of Journalism and Communication. Allan joined the faculty at the School of Journalism and Communication in 2003 after 17 years as a reporter with the Toronto Star<\/em> and previous work with the Kincardine Independent<\/em> and London Free Press<\/em>. He is a graduate of Carleton\u2019s Bachelor of Journalism program (1986) and has a Master\u2019s degree in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He spent a year in England and North Africa in 1990-91 on an internship with Gemini News Service. In 1994, he was posted to the Star<\/em>\u2019s Parliament Hill bureau in Ottawa, where he worked for most of the next decade as a political reporter, specializing in foreign affairs, defence and immigration issues. While at Carleton he published an edited collection called The Media and the Rwanda Genocide<\/em> and also established and managed a five-year media development project in Rwanda called The Rwanda Initiative. Later he launched the Centre for Media and Transitional Societies here at Carleton. In 2010 he co-authored a journalism text, The Canadian Reporter: News Writing and Reporting<\/em> with colleagues Catherine McKercher and Carman Cumming. Allan\u2019s most recent publication is the edited collection Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond<\/em>, published by CIGI Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Roger Martin <\/strong>is the Information Technology Coordinator at Carleton\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication and Senior Producer of Capital Current, the school\u2019s flagship publication for student journalism. Roger is also the school’s web designer and he set up the website for the Reimagining Political Journalism conference. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jaime Sadgrove<\/strong> (they\/them) is the Communications and Events Specialist at Carleton\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication. Prior to joining the school in January 2024, Jaime worked in advocacy and communications in the nonprofit sector, including leading the comms team for a major national 2SLGBTQI+ youth organization. Jaime holds an Honours Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies from Carleton University.  When they aren\u2019t at work, Jaime is active in Ottawa\u2019s musical theatre and choral music communities. They love hiking, overpriced coffee, and testing out overly ambitious recipes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Randy Boswell<\/strong> is an associate professor of journalism at Carleton University, where he\u2019s been teaching the next generation of news professionals for about 30 years, the last 12 as a full-time professor. A key role as an instructor has been overseeing student reporting for the J-School\u2019s Centretown News<\/em> and Capital Current publications, and he\u2019s supervising the conference\u2019s student news team. Boswell has worked as a reporter and editor with the Orangeville Banner<\/em>, London Free Press<\/em>, Ottawa Citizen<\/em>, CanWest News Service and Postmedia News, and his political commentary has appeared in the Citizen<\/em> and other Postmedia publications, iPolitics, Canada\u2019s National Observer, GlobalNews.ca, Toronto Star<\/em> and elsewhere. A former city hall reporter, he has covered numerous elections at the municipal, provincial and federal levels. He has also written for CBC News, the Globe and Mail, Rolling Stone<\/em>, The Hockey News and The Conversation, while guest editing and contributing to 12 volumes of history-themed essays for Canadian Issues\/Th\u00e8mes Canadiens<\/em>, the flagship publication of the Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies.  He has a Bachelor of Journalism (1989) and Master of Canadian Studies (2013) from Carleton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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