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Democracy Bootcamp 2018 Democracy Bootcamp 2018 SCHOOL Toronto, ON | April 5-6, 2018 . AGENDA Thursday, April 5 The Globe and Mail Centre, 351 King Street East - Level 17, Suite 1600 6:00 – 6:30pm Registration 6:30 – 6:45pm Welcome 6:45 - 8:30pm Fake News and News Literacy Experts in the field of ‘fake news’ and media literacy discuss the current threats – and how we can prepare young people today to become media-savvy in an age of disinformation. • Peter Adams (News Literacy Project) • Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa) • Craig Silverman (Buzzfeed) • Moderator: Sabrina Nanji (Toronto Star) 8:30pm Reception Friday, April 6 The Globe and Mail Centre, 351 King Street East - Level 17, Suite 1600 7:00 – 8:00am BREAKFAST 8:00 - 8:15am Opening remarks/table introductions 8:15 - 8:45am Review of Student Vote A review of the Student Vote program, how it works and the materials you will receive. 8:45 - 9:15am Why are we here Voting trends and research, the importance of civic education and key findings from the recent Student Vote Evaluation. 9:15 – 10:00am Small group discussion 10:00 - 10:15am BREAK DEMOCRACY BOOTCAMP 2018 3 10:15 - 10:40am Presentation: Election Issues Exploring election issues and ways to ‘elevate the debate’ during the Ontario provincial election. • Sean Speer (University of Toronto School of Public Policy and Governance) 10:40 - 11:00am Small group discussion 11:00am - 12:00pm Panel discussion: On the Campaign Trail A discussion on recent events, major issues and predictions for the upcoming Ontario election campaign. • Martin Regg Cohn (Toronto Star) • Jessica Smith Cross (QP Briefing) • Adam Radwanski (Globe and Mail) • Moderator: Jane Taber (National Public Relations) 12:00 – 12:45pm LUNCH 12:45 – 2:00pm Panel discussion: Inside the War Room Understanding the strategies and tactics of the parties during an election campaign. • Jenni Byrne (Bayfield Strategy) • David Herle (Gandalf Group) • Kathleen Monk (Earnescliffe Strategy Group) • Moderator: David Walmsley (Globe and Mail) 2:00 – 2:30pm Panel discussion: Increasing your Impact Teachers highlight best practices and approaches for wider engagement. 2:30 – 2:50pm Small group discussion 2:50 – 3:00pm Closing remarks 4 DEMOCRACY BOOTCAMP 2018 PETER ADAMS Peter Adams is the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs and is based in Chicago. Peter began his career in education as a classroom teacher in the New York City schools through Teach For America. He has also taught in the Chicago public schools and at Roosevelt University and Chicago City Colleges’ Wilbur Wright campus. In addition, he has worked with the New York City Teaching Fellows Program, with After School Matters and as an independent education consultant. Since joining NLP in 2009, he has coordinated classroom and after-school @PeterD_Adams programs, served as Chicago program manager, worked on organizational strategy and developed NLP’s digital program. He has also provided news literacy training and workshops to educators and others throughout the area. In January 2014 Peter became NLP’s senior vice president for educational programming, with primary responsibility for overseeing the classroom and digital programs and the curriculum and support materials. He is a graduate of Indiana University, where he majored in English and African-American studies and co-founded an independent monthly student newspaper, and has a master’s degree in the humanities from the University of Chicago. ELIZABETH DUBOIS Dr. Elizabeth Dubois writes, speaks, and teaches at the intersection of technology and politics. Technology critic meets advocate meets academic, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. Her work examines digital media, influence and political engagement. Elizabeth is a graduate of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she completed a DPhil (PhD) in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences as well as an MSc in the Social Sciences of the Internet (distinction). Elizabeth was a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, Clarendon @lizdubois Fellow and Killam Fellow (Fulbright Canada). Collaborating with non-profits, tech. companies, journalists and academics internationally, Elizabeth’s work is action oriented. From running an online survey that doubled as a voter information tool in the last federal election to writing op-eds, she endeavors to make her work accessible and valuable in a public forum. As a Public Policy Forum Fellow Elizabeth is investigating public policy options around the future of news. She is also on the Advisory Board for Ottawa Civic Tech and an Academic Advisor for Samara. Previously Elizabeth worked on Parliament Hill (Canada) as a communications specialist for an MP, in climate change policy for an international human rights organization, and has consulted for other non-profit organizations. DEMOCRACY BOOTCAMP 2018 5 SABRINA NANJI Sabrina Nanji joined the Toronto Star in September to cover the new democracy beat. She previously reported on provincial politcs and policy at Queen’s Park Briefing and labour relations for Thomson Reuters. She’s a Carleton University graduate and lives in Toronto. @sabrinananji ADAM RADWANSKI Adam Radwanski is the Globe and Mail’s political feature writer. He specializes in profiles of public figures and backroom players, and in-depth examinations of political phenomena and how campaigns and issues are playing out on the ground. A National Newspaper Award winner, he also regularly writes political analysis columns, informed by his reporting. He spent a full year prior to the 2015 federal election writing about that campaign’s strategies, tactics, personalities and stakes, earning particular acclaim for his reporting on the @aradwanski Conservatives’ behind-the-scenes machinations during the final months of the Stephen Harper era. Adam previously served as the Globe and Mail’s Ontario columnist, and before that was a member of the Globe’s editorial board. He made his start in journalism as the founder of Canada’s first online political magazine, was a columnist and editor at the National Post, and was managing editor for online services at Maclean’s. MARTIN REGG COHN Martin Regg Cohn writes the Ontario politics column for the Toronto Star. A foreign correspondent for 11 years, he was chief of the Middle East and Asia bureaus, then Foreign Editor, and a world affairs columnist. He has reported from more than 40 countries, from Afghanistan to Yemen, and been nominated five times for the National Newspaper Award. He previously covered national politics from Ottawa. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University’s Faculty of @reggcohn Arts. 6 DEMOCRACY BOOTCAMP 2018 CRAIG SILVERMAN Craig Silverman is the editor of BuzzFeed Canada and the founder of Emergent.info, a real-time rumor tracker that was developed as part a fellowship with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. His work resulted in the Tow report, “Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims and Misinformation.” Craig also founded Regret the Error, a blog about media accuracy and the discipline of verification. It’s now part of the Poynter Institute for Media @CraigSilverman Studies, where he serves as adjunct faculty. Prior to Poynter, he was editorial director and part of the team that launched OpenFile, an online news startup the delivered community-driven reporting in six Canadian cities. Craig edited the Verification Handbook and the Verification Handbook For Investigative Journalism from the European Journalism Center. He is the former managing editor of PBS MediaShift and has been a columnist for the Globe And Mail, Toronto Star, and Columbia Journalism Review. His journalism and books have been honored by the Mirror Awards, National Press Club, National Magazine Awards (Canada), Canadian Online Publishing Awards, and Crime Writers of Canada. JANE TABER Jane Taber is a veteran print and broadcast journalist who has spent her career covering Parliament Hill, and most recently Queen’s Park. During her tenure on Parliament Hill, Jane covered the Mulroney Progressive Conservatives, the Chretien Liberals and the Harper Conservatives. In 2015, she moved to Toronto to cover the Wynne Liberals and the Ontario legislature. She’s spent more hours than she can count on campaign buses and planes following the leaders during election bids. She’s covered leadership contests, @JaneTaber1 and all of the important issues of the day. Her network of contacts, political and influential Canadians, is vast. All of these issues and events were covered both in print (as a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen, the National Postand for 14 years at the Globe and Mail) and also on television and radio. From 2005 to 2011, Jane was the co-host of CTV’s Question Period and interviewed all the main political players of the day on the hour-long broadcast. She was also the fill-in host on Mike Duffy Live and Power Play on CTV’s News Channel. Jane filled in, too, on CTV’s morning show, Canada AM. Before joining CTV’s Question Period, Jane was a regular contributor to CBC’s At Issue panel with Peter Mansbridge. So, she knows television from both vantage points – as the interviewer and as the interviewee. As Vice-President, Corporate Affairs at NATIONAL’s Toronto office since September 2016, she now she brings her wealth of experience to the Firm, her colleagues and her clients. DEMOCRACY BOOTCAMP 2018 7 JENNI BYRNE Jenni Byrne is Vice President Strategic Communications at Bayfield Strategy. Jenni is a seasoned communications and public affairs strategist. From 2009-2013, she was the Director of Political Operations for the Conservative Party of Canada, and served as the National Campaign Manager for the Conservatives in the 2011 and 2015 federal elections. In 2011, she became the first woman to manage a winning national campaign in Canada, helping deliver the Conservatives a majority government – the party’s first since @Jenni_Byrne 1988.
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