01.04.17
01.08.17
Day 1 – JAN 4
NASHWAAK A
NASHWAAK B
MARYSVILLE A
MARYSVILLE B
10:00 am 10:30 am 11:00 am
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11:30 am 12:00 pm 12:30 pm 1:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm 2:30 pm 3:00 pm 3:30 pm 4:00 pm 4:30 pm
Registration
5:00 pm
(Downstairs)
5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm
Opening Ceremonies
7:00 pm 7:30 pm
Keynote:
8:00 pm
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon (Point St. Anne)
8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm
Social Event:
10:00 pm
Meet & Greet (James Joyce Pub)
10:30 pm
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Welcome.
Welcome to Fredericton and NASH 79!
We all know 2016 had its fair share of depressing news, so what better way to start the new year than to look ahead to the future. With stories of start-ups and chatbots, libel claims and a shifting focus in the digital age, we hope that NASH 79 will leave you with a sense of pride for the journalism that is taking place in our country. Also, though, we want you to feel inspired to follow your own interests and confident to build upon your experience as a student journalist. A lot of the speakers at this conference were once in your very position, and the diversity of their careers shows just what the possibilities are. While you are here, we encourage you to take the time to explore the city of Fredericton. Neither of us were originally born here but have both grown to appreciate this east coast capital. Whether you check out an art gallery or a concert, go to a hockey game, walk along the river or eat at one of the many downtown restaurants, the opportunity to explore a different city isn’t something every university student gets. Be sure to enjoy it! Thanks for coming, we hope you have a great time.
Welcome to NASH 79!
Tel: 1-587-988-3590 Email: president@cup.ca Web: www.cup.ca
Whether you are a long-time CUPpie or a first time NASH attendee, this years’ conference is sure to be fun and engaging. Our conference coordinators from the Brunswickan, Adam Travis and Sebastian Maynard, have done an amazing job preparing this conference for your benefit, and I hope you will take full advantage of the combined skills, ideas, and knowledge represented by the speakers and your fellow delegates all here in Fredericton this week. Journalism, the media industry itself, is facing a lot of pressure, and that is no less true for student media. Budget pressures, smaller staffs and increased scrutiny make the jobs of student journalists even harder. To survive in this age of change is to adapt. This year’s NASH theme, Start-Up, reflects those pressures, and how student journalists can challenge the norm and keep campus media alive and engaged at institutions across Canada. This year’s line-up of speakers and presenters, true to the spirit of NASH, represents a wealth of industry knowledge and some of the leading minds of the industry. Your job as a delegate is to absorb their knowledge, discuss the challenges your paper, and every student paper, faces and how campus media can adapt, even succeed, despite them. CUP itself can be part of that adaptation. We are your national cooperative – your paper is not just a member, it is an owner and an integral part of CUP’s governance. We don’t just provide services, we are a network. The coming together of student journalists across Canada, physically at NASH, but professionally through CUP. Your contributions can have a huge impact, and I encourage you to consider your potential as you enjoy NASH. This conference is a great opportunity to learn something new, make some awesome new friends, and of course, have a little fun. NASH has been known to get quite rambunctious in the past, so as they say – “eat, drink, and be merry!” On behalf of CUP’s board of directors, thank you for joining us in Fredericton this year, and welcome to NASH 79! Warm Regards, Nicolas Brown, C.I.M., PCP
President & Chair Canadian University Press
Day 1 – JAN 4
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Adam Travis and Sebastian Maynard
National Conference Coordinators
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon is a reporter and web editor for CBC News and author of the national bestseller Shadow of Doubt: The Trial of Dennis Oland. She has been a finalist for two National Newspaper Awards and three Atlantic Journalism Awards.
Point St. Anne 7:30pm-9pm
Social Event James Joyce Pub 9pm-12am
Journalism and New Brunswick: In our opening night keynote, Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon will look at how the industry has changed during her career, how you have to be versatile and willing to reinvent yourself to survive, and that you don’t necessarily have to be in a big centre to cover interesting cases and have a successful career.
Meet and Greet at James Joyce Pub Just off the main lobby of the hotel, the James Joyce Pub is a great intro to the Fredericton food scene, with the biggest selection of NB craft brews in the province and classic pub fare. Bring your name tag and get to know your fellow NASH 79 delegates in a rustic, warm atmosphere – all in the comfort of your hotel.
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Day 1 – JAN 4
Day 2 – JAN 5
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NASHWAAK A
NASHWAAK B
MARYSVILLE A
10:00 am
Opening Plenary
10:30 am
(Downstairs)
MARYSVILLE B
11:00 am
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
Workshop:
11:30 am
Jan Wong
Quito Maggi
News
Jason Chiu
Critique
Lunch
12:00 pm 12:30 pm 1:00 pm
Panel Discussion:
1:30 pm
Unfair Criticism: Disproportionate Hate Towards Female Journalists (Point St. Anne)
2:00 pm
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
Workshop:
2:30 pm
David Cole
Matt Frehner
Sports
Kayla Perry
3:00 pm
Session:
Roundtable:
3:30 pm
Shireen Ahmed
Arts
Session:
Roundtable:
Workshop:
Editor
Ryan Jackson
4:00 pm 4:30 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm
Session:
Bruce Hallihan Shannon Busta
Session:
Session:
Critique
Roundtable:
Patrick McGuire Karen Pinchin
Features Break
6:00 pm 6:30 pm 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm
(Point St. Anne)
8:00 pm
Keynote:
8:30 pm
Scaachi Koul (Point St. Anne)
9:00 pm 9:30 pm
Social Event:
10:00 pm
Discover Fredericton
10:30 pm
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Critique
Critique
Critique
Jan Wong is a professor, international best-selling author
and an award-winning foreign correspondent who has worked for the Montreal Gazette, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail.
Nashwaak A 11am-12pm
Dealing With Criticism And Hate: Journalists report on war, crime, death and disaster. What do you do when one of your hard-hitting or not-so-hard-hitting stories spark hate mail and social-media attacks? The instability of the industry itself — layoffs, part-time work, contract work, abusive colleagues — doesn’t help. How do reporters protect their own mental health?
Point St. Anne 1pm-2pm Jan Wong Shireen Ahmed Lee Thomas Sarah Ratchford
David Coles is a lawyer that represents a number of institutional clients including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CTV, Community Newspapers Association Members, The Coast and National Bank Financial Limited.
Quito Maggi is President and CEO of Mainstreet
Research, a Canadian public research firm with offices in Montreal, Calgary and Toronto.
Nashwaak B 11am-12pm
Polling And Reporting In A Fact-Free World: Quito Maggi will talk about the rise of Trump and the epic polling failure in the United States. Could journalists, analysts and pollsters have foreseen Trump’s win? With Canada facing not one, but two, Trump-lites, Maggi will explore what we knew – and didn’t know while offering up lessons from the American election to apply to the Conservative Party Leadership Race.
Nashwaak A 2pm-4pm
and Mail. His team designs pretty much everything you see from The Globe, from phones to newspapers. It’s fun.
Globe and Mail. Previously he was at The Toronto Star, Eye Weekly (The Grid) and got his start at 3 different student weeklies in Ottawa and Toronto. His work has been recognized across print, pixels, and broadcast.
Marysville B 11am-12pm
Panel Discussion
Day 2 – JAN 5
Unfair Criticism — Disproportionate Hate Towards Female Journalists As someone in the public eye, there is always the possibility of hate and criticism being directed towards a 8
Do Not Lose a Libel Claim: David will address prepublication libel concerns as well as how defending a libel action works. Along with looking at “Responsible Communication” and internet and trans border considerations, David will use examples from his own legal career. The format will be open and interactive and a discussion of general legal issues is also invited.
Matt Frehner is the Head of Presentation at The Globe
Jason Chiu is the Deputy Head of Presentation at The
InDesign Workshop: An open discussion with Jason Chiu, Deputy Head of Presentation at The Globe and Mail, about how to bend InDesign to do your bidding, make it your friend and not your foe, and build a great newspaper your readers will love. Bring your questions, Jason will (try to) answer them.
journalist. An increasing amount of this hate is targeted at female journalists, though, and often times for things that go beyond their work. In this frank conversation our panelists will share stories and advice on how to handle this negative aspect of their jobs.
Nashwaak B 2pm-3pm
How to Win at Digital Storytelling: We can now tell stories in dozens of formats that mix text, images, charts, videos, animation, interactive graphics, etc. How do we decide what format is best? How do we know when to hit publish? And how do we know that what we are doing is even working?
Kayla Perry coordinates CWA Canada’s associate mem-
bership program, a free union membership which supports media students, interns, and part-time media workers as they build sustainable careers in the media
Marysville B 2pm-3pm
10 Tips for Building a Sustainable Career in the Media Workshop: This workshop will offer tips for building lasting careers in a precarious employment landscape. Discussions will address laws that regulate different employment positions, tips for compensation negotiation, what a good contract should include, and more.
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Day 2 – JAN 5
Shireen Ahmed is a writer, public speaker and sports
Patrick McGuire is a journalist and documentary pro-
activist who focuses on Muslim women, and the intersections of racism and misogyny in sports.
Nashwaak B 3pm-4pm
The Changing Faces of Journalism: It can be argued that networking and nepotism play a large role in advancement in Canadian media, and for those who do not have the connections, alternate routes are required to amplify their voices. This has not entirely changed the predominantly white landscape of Canadian media but it has certainly helped to diversify it.
ducer who is currently VICE Canada’s Head of Content. Most recently he has been overseeing original television production for VICELAND, alongside the youth-targeted digital and print journalism the brand is known for.
Nashwaak A 5pm-6pm
Bruce Hallihan is a Miramichi, N.B. native with almost 30 years of experience in the newspaper industry. He’s been sports editor of The Daily Gleaner since 2011. Bruce won the 2015 Atlantic Journalism Award for sports reporting, any medium.
Nashwaak B 4pm-5pm
Sports Writing: Long time sports writer Bruce Hallihan will speak about sports reporting/writing in general, including how the immediacy of social media and the demand for frequent updates has changed the way we need to do our job. In this session, students are encouraged to ask questions as Bruce will provide advice based on his own experiences.
Karen Pinchin is a freelance journalist and editor specializing in food and culture. She writes for outlets including The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, The Walrus, National Geographic and is Fredericton’s local food columnist on CBC Radio One.
Nashwaak B 5pm-6pm
Shannon Busta is a digital journalist with eight years of experience. She currently holds the position of Distributed and Emerging Platform Strategist at The Globe and Mail.
Nashwaak B 4pm-5pm
Instagram for News: With more than 500-million monthly active users, publishers are increasingly looking to Instagram as a way to reach new audiences. This session will give you practical tips for growing your publication’s following and walk you through how to create a long read or serial on the platform.
Ryan Jackson is an award-winning photojournalist focussed on immersive storytelling in 360VR and dome projection. He has worked at various publications across Canada and now runs a growing 360-video production company, Full Circle Visuals.
Marysville B 4pm-5pm Day 2 – JAN 5
How do you do That? Photo and Video Workshop: Bring lots of questions and your camera or smartphone to this informal photo workshop. Send suggestions for what you’d like to learn ahead of time to Ryan Jackson of Full Circle Visuals at ryan@ fullcirclevisuals.com. 10
Don’t Be Scared Don’t Be Stupid: A colloquial talk about the need to investigate uncomfortable stories while managing the personal and organizational risks they entail. By using examples from his work experience Patrick will enable a provocative and necessary conversation about how to ensure your work is both bold and responsible.
Stay Hungry:A longtime food and culture journalist, Karen has spent about half her career as a freelance journalist for magazines and newspapers and will help demystify the world of freelancing. Karen will outline the skills and tricks you’ll need to stand out from a crowd and sell stories to editors, including idea generation, pitching, following up and business basics.
Scaachi Koul is a Senior Writer for BuzzFeed Canada. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Globe and Mail and Jezebel.
Point St. Anne 8pm-9:30pm
Social Event 10pm-12am
How to be Less Sad, or Not, I’m Not Your Mom, Okay: Writing, especially writing that forces you to give a part of yourself to your audience, inevitably leads to burnout and creative frustration and exhaustion. Worse is when you face an onslaught of attention, either negative or positive, responding to your work or your public perception. You can’t necessarily prevent it, but you can find ways to the other side.
Explore Fredericton This night is up to you – choose your own NASH adventure (or join the discussion in the #NASH79 hashtag). Whether you want to explore downtown or relax at the hotel, this night is yours. Keep checking our blog for ideas of what to do.
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Day 2 – JAN 5
Day 3 – JAN 6 10:00 am 10:30 am
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NASHWAAK A
NASHWAAK B
MARYSVILLE A
MARYSVILLE B
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
Session:
Social
Matt Frehner
Shannon Busta Sarah Ratchford
11:00 am
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
Session:
11:30 am
David Shipley
Jason Chiu
Photo
Allan Gates
Critique
Critique
Lunch
12:00 pm 12:30 pm 1:00 pm
Panel Discussion:
1:30 pm
Journalism & Entrepreneurship (Point St. Anne)
2:00 pm
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
Workshop:
2:30 pm
Tom Henheffer
James Keast
Design
David Shipley
3:00 pm
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
3:30 pm
Josh O’Kane
Tim Currie
Video
Critique
Critique
4:00 pm 4:30 pm
CUP Midweek Plenary
5:00 pm
(Point St. Anne)
5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm
(Point St. Anne)
7:30 pm
Hockey Game:
8:00 pm
Keynote:
UNB V-Reds
8:30 pm
David Skok Q&A (Point St. Anne)
VS.
9:00 pm
St. FX
9:30 pm 10:00 pm
Social Event:
10:30 pm
Concert at The Capital Complex
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Shannon Busta (See page 10 for bio)
Nashwaak A 10am-11am
How to Build a Chatbot in an Hour and Why you Should: From The Guardian’s Sous Chef bot to QZ and Purple, legacy publications and startups are finding new audiences using AI technologies on a range of platforms. The future will be run by AI. Dip your toes in the water now and learn how to use it to deliver your content to new and current audiences.
David Shipley is the CEO and founder of Beauceron, a cybersecurity start-up developing new technologies to help organizations assess their cyber risk and take meaningful steps to reduce the likelihood and severity of cyber attacks
Nashwaak A 11am-12pm
Sarah Ratchford is a journalist and documentary film maker based in Toronto. Their work focuses on women’s issues, with a concentration on rape and sexual assault, and can be found most often on VICE.
Nashwaak B 10am-11am
What Not to Ask: Join Sarah Ratchford as she shares some strategies for bringing an anti-oppression lens to journalistic projects, and for connecting and working with marginalized sources. We need to make our sources comfortable and give them reasons to trust us. Part of that trust comes from letting our sources’ voices shape the story and building respect, rather than always assuming we know the most appropriate angle to take. Sarah will discuss the most effective ways to do this.
Matt Frehner (See page 9 for bio)
Marysville B 10am-11am
Writing News for Small Screens: Your readers are now primarily, if not exclusively, mobile readers. They may be getting their news entirely from Facebook or Snapchat. And with increased competition from myriad sources of real and fake news, writing specifically for mobile audiences has become crucial. We’ll look at what makes for smart, engaging copy on a small screen — from headlines and tweets to story structure and pacing.
Allan Gates is a co-founder of Huddle, an online business
journal focused on New Brunswick. A veteran communications professional, Allan worked at a number of agencies in Canada and the United States before returning home to New Brunswick in 2007.
Marysville B 11am-12pm
Panel Discussion
Jason Chiu (See page 8 for bio)
Nashwaak B 11am-12pm Day 3 – JAN 6
Concepts, Creativity And Chiu: How some of The Globe and Mail’s weekend front pages come together, including how to take cues from world’s leading magazines, past and present, and how to stand on the shoulders of giants. Aka: How to kick ass and take names by dreaming up the best ideas and concepts that creatively capture the imagination of your staff and your audience. This is a giant slide show of awesomeness. 14
The Red Pill Talk: A frank and honest discussion on the current state of global cybersecurity and the desperate need for journalists to start asking hard questions, before things get any worse. From hackable cars to the purposeful takedown of a Ukrainian power plant, from breaches of sensitive personal information leading to suicides to influencing a presidential election, the future is being shaped by forces that everyone needs to be aware of and asking critical questions about.
Point St. Anne 1pm-2pm Ryan Jackson Allan Gates Tom Henheffer Patrick McGuire Sam Brooks
Finding your Community: Join Allan Gates, co-founder of Huddle, as he discusses the evolving world of online media and the opportunities that creates, why old models don’t work and how to create a community of like-minded people that will help build a sustainable audience for your online property.
Journalism and Entrepreneurship START UP, this years conference theme, speaks to the changing state of the journalism industry, where journalists have to be comfortable with different tasks and taking non-traditional career paths. This is true for news organizations as well. Whether it is a small start-up geared towards a niche audience or a national media source expanding to new platforms, news organizations have to continue to be entrepreneurial if they want to survive. In this panel we will explore how and why that is. 15
Day 3 – JAN 6
Tom Henheffer is the Executive Director of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, an organization that’s been protecting the right to free expression in Canada and around the world for more than 30 years.
Nashwaak A 2pm-3pm
Failure to Innovate: Why the Canadian Media Can’t Have Nice Things: From wasteful government subsidies to predatory advertising rates and managers who put profit above product, the Canadian media is failing. But while media in other developed nations is enjoying a bit of a renaissance Canada continues to lag behind. We were once a bastion of press freedom, why is this not longer true?
Josh O’Kane is a reporter with The Globe and Mail. He covers subjects including small business, personal finance and music.
Nashwaak A 3pm-4pm
Tim Currie is Director of the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College. He teaches courses in online journalism, social media, audience engagement, and reporting techniques.
James Keast is a true dinosaur, one of the last of his
species: an editor of a print magazine in 2016. Since 1995, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of Exclaim!, Canada’s largest music and pop culture magazine.
Nashwaak B 2pm-3pm
Fandom and Fan Service: 25 Years Of Exclaim!: Since 1992, Exclaim! has illuminated and helped unite disparate music communities under a common love of great music. While once we were a zine in a crowded field of self-publishers, we now stand alone — and remain entirely independently owned and operated — as Canada’s only national music magazine. Where once we were making the magazine we wanted to read in a crowded field of populists, now we’re a global force for Canadian music. A talk about print in a digital age.
David Shipley (See page 15 for bio)
Marysville B 2pm-3pm
Day 3 – JAN 6
Cybersecurity Workshop: This workshop will explore the “forensics” of cybercrime, equipping journalists with a guide to the lexicon of cybersecurity and with ideas on key questions to ask when reporting on hacks, breaches, malware and other cybercrimes. During this session we’ll demonstrate a sample hack starting with a phishing e-mail. We’ll then discuss how cybercriminals execute well-planned attacks on all types of organizations. You don’t need a technology background to enjoy this session, just a curious mind.
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J-school in 60 Minutes 2.0 (The J-school Strikes Back): Globe reporter Josh O’Kane walks you through career decisions, writing tips, and the benefits of (and problems with) journalism school so you know what to expect after university.
Nashwaak B 3pm-4pm
Writing for Social Media: How do we get news into users’ social feeds? Understanding what people share and how Facebook’s algorithm works is crucial. Learn what academic researchers and Facebook administrators tell us about creating a successful strategy for news distribution.
David Skok is a strategist, digital technologist, journalist and one of the leading thinkers on digital disruption in media. He is the Associate Editor and Head of Editorial Strategy for all digital platforms at The Toronto Star.
Point St. Anne 8pm-9:30pm
Social Event Capital Complex 9:30pm-12am
Q&A with David Skok: Join David Skok of the Toronto Star in a discussion on the state of journalism today, where we’re heading and what skills are needed to be successful. In this interactive setting, delegates will have an extended opportunity to ask Skok their own questions and learn from a leading journalist in North America, whose experience ranges from ABC’s Nightline to Global News and the Boston Globe.
Concert at The Capital Friday night at The Capital will feature “Hometown Heroes: A Rock Show for the Love of Fredericton.” Local favourites: The Hypochondriacs, Motherhood and Cellarghost will all be performing, and there will be free admission for everyone wearing their NASH 79 name tags. For those interested in music writing, we will be having a workshop on Saturday related to the live shows.
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Day 3 – JAN 6
Day 4 – JAN 7
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NASHWAAK A
NASHWAAK B
MARYSVILLE A
MARYSVILLE B
10:00 am
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
Session:
10:30 am
Julia Wright
Priya Sam
Opinion
Sean Patrick Sullivan
11:00 am
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
Workshop:
11:30 am
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Michael de Adder
Production
James Keast
12:00 pm
CUP Mission:
CUP Mission:
12:30 pm
Session 1
Session 2
1:00 pm
Panel Discussion:
1:30 pm
What I learned at a Student Paper (Point St. Anne)
2:00 pm
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
Workshop:
2:30 pm
Chris Jones
Darren Calabrese
Ad
Connie Camp
3:00 pm
Session:
Session:
Roundtable:
3:30 pm
Alan Cross
Karissa Donkin
Business
4:00 pm
Panel Discussion:
4:30 pm
Freelancing 101 (Point St. Anne)
5:00 pm
Keynote:
5:30 pm
Sam Brooks & Ryan Jackson (Point St. Anne) Break
6:30 pm 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm
(Crowne Ballroom)
8:00 pm
Keynote:
8:30 pm
Maureen Googoo (Point St. Anne)
9:00 pm
JHM Awards
9:30 pm
(Crowne Ballroom)
10:00 pm
Social Event:
10:30 pm
JHM Afterparty
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Critique
Critique
Lunch
6:00 pm
Critique
Critique
Critique
Julia Wright is a writer and reporter/editor with CBC. The
Elamin Abdelmahmoud is the social media editor for BuzzFeed Canada. He’s interested in messing around with the weird role social media is starting to play in telling news and stories.
co-founder of Hard Times in the Maritimes, her work has appeared in VICE, the Telegraph-Journal, Civilized, BuzzFeed, Paste Magazine, and many other publications.
Nashwaak A 10am-11am
DIY Journalism: Born-and-raised New Brunswick journalist Julia Wright offers a practical, DIY guide to getting reporting/writing gigs literally anywhere - even when you’re based in a itty-bitty town on the East Coast. Get ideas on what to read, who to contact, types of stories to chase, and other hot tips on how to make a career in journalism work without having to move to Toronto (unless you want to.) From zine-making to freelancing to radio news, we’ll talk about some of the less-travelled routes for getting your work out there.
Nashwaak A 11am-12pm
Michael de Adder is an award-winning cartoonist
from Moncton, New Brunswick. He now freelances for the Halifax Chronicle Herald, the Toronto Star and Ottawa Hill Times. de Adder reaches millions of readers per week, making him one of the most read cartoonists in Canada.
Priya Sam co-hosts CTV Morning Live. She prepares and
delivers up-to-the-minute newscasts over the course of the two-hour show. She is also the producer and anchor of CTV News at Noon.
Nashwaak B 10am-11am
Working Your Way Up: There used to be a pretty clear cut way to get a job before; get a junior position, get experience and work your way up. But that’s changing in newsrooms, there are fewer jobs to go around and that means you always have to find ways to set yourself apart. That can mean excelling in technical positions even if you want to be on air or learning to do things that are way out of your comfort zone to prove that you’ve got determination and drive. Priya will offer some tips, strategies and reflections on how to do it from her own experience.
Nashwaak B 11am-12pm
Marysville B 10am-11m
Day 4 – JAN 7
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There and Back Again: Before starting his career at Mount Allison’s Argosy, Michael de Adder had never considered a career in journalism. It just sort of happened. Since then he went from working as a political cartoonist for the Halifax Daily news to working as a freelancer. His career has now taken a full 180. He finds himself doing exactly what he did when he started out. Freelancing. But he’s successful at it. Michael will talk about having to reinvent himself at least five times and how difficult it has been to etch out a career working out of his home.
James Keast (See page 16 for bio)
Sean Patrick Sullivan has worked as a reporter/ editor at The Canadian Press and Vancouver Province, and as a communications specialist for UBC’s Public Affairs office. He’s currently the web development strategist for the University of New Brunswick, where he gets to wrangle both code and words. What Journalists Need to Know About Websites: A quick overview of web content basics for journalists, including how users read on the web (hint: it’s very different than print!), content strategy, writing for the web, the magic of meta descriptions, and why your website needs to load in less than 2 seconds. Targeted to journalists starting web publications; writers keen to take on marketing or communications contracts; and aspiring web developers and editors.
What do you do When the Game Changes: Readers are increasingly less interested in leaving social platforms to another website — they want to stay on platforms much longer. That means social media is about to become what we call “The Internet.” Consequently, everything we knew about being successful is already outdated. Enough with the old. Let’s talk about the new.
Music Reviews Workshop: Following a night of live music at The Capital, join James Keast to discuss how to write a proper article about a live show. In this workshop, the EIC of Exclaim! will lend his expertise and insight to those student journalists that are interested in covering music for a career. Marysville B 11am-12pm
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Day 4 – JAN 7
Panel Discussion
Point St. Anne 1pm-2pm Josh O’Kane Karissa Donkin Sam Brooks Matt Frehner
What I Learned Working at a Student Paper We all know student journalists come from different backgrounds and will end up taking different career paths, but your experiences working at a university paper will help you regardless. Join our panel as they discuss the unexpected things they learned from their time as student journalists and how their careers have been shaped because of it.
Connie Camp is a freelance editor, most recently for
CBCNews.ca. She has held a variety of newsroom positions in Canada and the U.S., coached writers, trained copy editors and run the central copy and production desk for daily and small-market newspapers in New Brunswick. She believes copy editing matters.
Marysville B 2pm-3pm
Alan Cross is an internationally known broadcaster, inter-
viewer, writer, consultant, blogger, and speaker. In his 35 years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock and is a respected musicologist and documentarian.
Chris Jones, aka NASH Dad, is an award-winning magazine writer. His most recent work appeared in the New York Times Magazine.
Nashwaak A 2pm-3pm
The Best of Turin: How Good Things Get Made: There are countless kinds of creative work: making cool things with words, with images, with code, with light or sound or magic. Because creative work is, almost by definition, without limits, it’s resistant to rules or even guidelines—the universal principles that we all look for when we’re struggling and need reassurance. But there are a few truths about creative work that can help us no matter what it is we’re making or how we’re making it. Let’s explore them.
Nashwaak A 3pm-4pm
Nashwaak B 2pm-3pm
Day 4 – JAN 7
Long Live Radio: Radio has been declared dead so many times over the last hundred years, but the medium is still alive, kicking, popular and very profitable. Alan will take everyone through radio’s past and present and will offer some provocative ideas about where it’s going in the future.
Karissa Donkin is an investigative journalist at CBC
News. Her work has won two National Newspaper Awards, two Atlantic Journalism Awards and was nominated for a Michener Award for Public Service Journalism.
Darren Calabrese is an award-winning Canadian photographer. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, TIME, Monocle, Maclean’s, Sports Illustrated, VICE Magazine, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press.
Copywriting Editing: In this workshop, Connie Camp will help writers and editors through the essential skill of copy editing. Using articles written by student papers as examples, Connie will also guide you through the first three sentences of an article and the things writers and copy editors can do to keep readers reading.
Nashwaak B 3pm-4pm
Digging Deep: Investigative Storytelling: What is investigative journalism? How do you find investigative stories? CBC investigative journalist Karissa Donkin will take you inside some of her own investigative projects and offer tips on how to find your own investigative scoop on campus.
Photojournalism: Shifting Focus In A Digital Age: With shrinking newsrooms, but a growing online and mobile market, there is a continuing shift in the way readers are consuming visuals and photojournalism. While showing selections from past and current projects, Darren will discuss various ways photojournalists can publish compelling and engaging visual narratives in both traditional and non-traditional mediums.
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Panel Discussion
Point St. Anne 4pm-5pm Darren Calabrese Karen Pinchin Michael de Adder Sarah Ratchford
Freelancing 101 As salary jobs in the journalism industry seem to be harder to count on, freelancing is now more than ever a great way to make connections, build your resume and find out what you enjoy doing. But does the instability outweigh the benefits? In this panel discussion we will have writers, photographers and artists lend their perspective on the good and bad that comes with freelancing.
Maureen Googoo is an award-winning journalist from Indian Brook First Nation (Sipekne’katik) in Nova Scotia. She is the founder and EIC of Kukukwes, an independent Indigenous newsource based in Atlantic Canada.
Crowne Ballroom 8pm-9pm
JHM Awards Ryan Jackson and Sam Brooks are the
Crowne Ballroom 9pm-10pm
co-founders of Full Circle Visuals, a company focused on blending technology and storytelling. What is it Like to go Out on Your Own?: After nine years working as a staff photographer at the Edmonton Journal, Ryan Jackson decided to take the plunge and start his own video production company. He soon poached Sam Brooks from Postmedia and they co-founded Full Circle Visuals. Jackson and Brooks will share their experiences and tips for starting a company and learning to believe in yourself.
Social Event Boom! Nightclub 10pm-12am
Stories And Lessons Learned: With nearly 3o years of journalism experience, Maureen Googoo has the unique perspective of being an Indigenous journalist in Canada. After working in print, radio, TV and digital media, Maureen decided she wanted to chase stories that were being ignored by the mainstream media and created Kukukwes (pronounced GOOgoo-gwess). In this keynote, Maureen will tell stories from her career and speak about the lessons learned from starting her own news site.
The JHM Award Ceremony The JHM awards are Canada’s only student journalism awards. The “Johnnies” celebrate the finest in student-created and published works of journalistic writing, multimedia and individual efforts. 2017 marks the 13th annual JHM awards and, as always, is judged by industry professionals.
Dance Party at BOOM!
A six-minute walk from the hotel is Fredericton’s premier dance club – and you’re on the guest list. Celebrate JHMs and dance the night away with your new friends from across the country!
Point St. Anne 5pm-6pm
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CUP Plenary
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The Brunswickan 150 years In 1867, the first issue of the Brunswickan – the
University of New Brunswick’s student publication - was sent to print. 150 years later, we proudly continue this century and a half-old tradition. But as much as I’d like to share with you every detail of those 150 years, the Brunswickan’s history can be hard to pin down. While we document the events that shape our university and city, we neglect to record our own history. The fact student organizations have high turnover by design doesn’t help the transfer of knowledge, either. The only constant in the Brunswickan’s publishing history, excuse the cliché, has been change. Lapses in publishing, format change upon format change, fluctuations in distribution and budgetary trouble, among other issues, have faced the Brunswickan and its staff. Despite these challenges, the Brunswickan and its staff still stand 150 years later – a testament to the work and pride students have held for the paper over the years. Countless student writers, editors, photographers and artists have proudly printed their names on volume after volume of the Brunswickan. Some have gone on to become leaders in Canadian journalism, others saw their reporting careers end with graduation. But no matter what the future holds for its staff, the Brunswickan – the student press, for that matter – has always served to teach lessons few classes can articulate. It’s even broken some news here and there. As our beloved Bruns turns 150, I ask that you reflect on what your campus paper has given you, and look at what you can do to ensure it too continues on to teach future generations of journalists, to tell the stories of your campus and community, and to give the student body a voice with which to ask ‘why?’ Happy 150th, Brunwickan – and here’s to 150 more. Adam Travis
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Boyce Farmers Market
NB Liquor
Sobeys
The Abbey / Red Rover Café
Coras
The Palate Restaurant & Café
boom! Nightclub
Picaroons Brewtique
Read’s Newstand & Café
Smoke’s Poutine
Jack’s Pizza
The Tannery Bar District
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Charlotte Street Arts Centre
Officers Square Skating Rink
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N.B. Legislative Building
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Unplugged: A Board Game Café
Gallery 78
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Grey Stone Brewery
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Victory Meat Market
The Happy Baker
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