Student Journalism Week

The Daily Productions Society (DPS) is proud to announce its third annual Student Journalism Week, to be held from November 1-5, 2010 at McGill University in Montreal. The week will feature panel presentations in French and English, workshops, as well as guest speakers. All events will be open to every McGill student.

Student Journalism Week opens students’ understanding of the possibilities in journalism, and allows students not already involved in campus or community media to gain tangible experience in the production process.

New Media (Panel Discussion)
Monday, November 1, 2010
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Leacock 219

Concordia professor Lisa Lynch, Alanah Hefez (spacingmontreal.ca), and Andrew Princz (ontheglobe.com) will discuss how to navigate the changing landscape of journalism: multi-media reporting, online niche-interest news sites, and new ways of establishing evidence, will be among topics covered.

Behind closed doors: using access-to-information requests to investigate government abuses and misdemeanours (Workshop)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 pm Brown 5001

A workshop on how to file and use Access-to-Information (ATI) requests to to investigate government abuses and misdemeanours. We'll run-through how to file and use ATIs, step-by-step, and discuss obstacles and some tricks to get around them. Come with a subject in mind you'd like to investigate!

Breaking into Journalism (Panel Discussion)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Chancellor Day Hall 100

How to get an internship? How to get a job? A panel of McGill grads tell you how they did it. Raji Sohal (CBC radio), Braden Goyette (The Nation magazine) and Laurence Martin (Le Devoir).

Citizen Media: Part I (Guest Speaker)
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Leacock 219

What are the effects of emerging structures of corporate media on discourse? Is there a widening gap between what people believe and what media is covering? Craig Silverman (PBS Media Shift and OpenFile) discusses these issues in the first chapter in a bilingual series.

Radical Journalism On the Air (Guest Speaker)
Thursday, November 4, 2010
2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Brown 5001

Gretchen King (CKUT) will discuss on-air news coverage, radio documentaries, and Groundwire, a nationally syndicated program run by the National Campus and Community Radio Association.

Interning in Style (Panel Discussion)
Thursday, November 4, 2010
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Chancellor Day Hall 202

McGill students discuss their experiences working for fashion, entertainment, and editorial magazines: Todd Plummer (Vogue); Katie Amey (Nylon, Seventeen.com); Carolyn Gregoire (Blackbook, Seventeen); and Racher Benjamin (Glamour).

Percer dans le journalisme 2.0 (Panel Discussion - in French)
Thursday, November 4, 2010
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Chancellor Day Hall 101

Jozef Ciroka, Tristan Péloquin (Cyberpresse) et Anne-Marie Lecomte (Radio-Canada) discutent du journalisme à l'ère 2.0 : comment trouver sa place, les outils et la participation croissante du public.

Caught in the Middle: Writing an Opinion in Today's Partisan Climate (Panel Discussion)
Thursday, November 4, 2010
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Chancellor Day Hall 102

Seasoned journalist and The Globe and Mail staff writer Marcus Gee talks about negotiating the polarized North American political framework. The media's preoccupation with Liberal/Conservative and the Democrat/Republican dichotomies means issues can become depoliticized and distorted. Marcus Gee talks about finding middle ground.

Making a Sale: Culture Journalism in a Contracting Market (Panel Discussion)
Thursday, November 4, 2010
7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Chancellor Day Hall 202

Freelance journalists discuss how to pitch and write articles for today's market: Matthew Hays a writer for the Montreal Mirror and a two-time National Magazine Award nominee; his articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, CBC Arts Online, The Walrus, The Advocate, Cineaste, The Hollywood Reporter and The Toronto Star; Patricia Bailey a writer for Playback Magazine and a regular contributor to CBC Arts Online; her articles have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Walrus, and This Magazine; Donna Nebenzahl is a freelance journalist who writes regularly for The Gazette, and for The Toronto Star; her articles have appeared in Canadian Geographic, Elle Canada, Reader's Digest, Canadian Home and Country and Country Living U.S.

Friday, November 5, 2010 (Guest Speaker)
Citizen Media: Part II
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Leacock 219

What are the effects of emerging structures of corporate media on discourse? Is there a widening gap between what people believe and what media is covering? Tim McSorley (The Dominion and Media Cooperative) discusses these issues in the second chapter in a bilingual series.

Social Justice Journalism (Panel Discussion)
Friday, November 5, 2010
7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Leacock 219

Panelists will discuss how social justice journalism has changed in light of recent events like the treatment of media G20 protests.

Registration required through myFuture. From your homepage, click on the Events tab followed by the Workshop tab and keyword JOURNALISM WEEK.