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  • Ethics, Tactics, and Tensions in Journalism: Implications for Islamophobia

    Ethics, Tactics, and Tensions in Journalism: Implications for Islamophobia

    This talk with Dr. Shayna Plaut – Research Manager at the GRC – explores the findings of the Fixer’s study as well as its implications for the rise of Islamophobia in western media and policy. This presentation is a post-colonial analysis involving 450 people in 85 countries, mapping the relationship between foreign journalists, local “fixers”…

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  • Cross-Border Investigative Reporting workshop

    Cross-Border Investigative Reporting workshop

    The Global Reporting Centre will co-host a workshop in Vancouver for investigative reporters from across the continent, to discuss cross-border reporting and explore ways of developing international collaborations.

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  • The Price of Sex Photography Exhibition

    The Price of Sex Photography Exhibition

    The Price of Sex is a series of exhibitions based on award-winning photography by Mimi Chakarova.

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  • War Stories

    War Stories

    War stories from Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones told by foreign correspondents, combat veterans and scholars. Award-winning Iraqi-Canadian photojournalist Farah Nosh and writer/photographer Ann Jones will share images and stories of the impact of war on civilians. Wall Distinguished Professor and geographer Derek Gregory will discuss changes in the evacuation of war casualties from battlefields over the past century. Contact! Unload, a…

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  • Re-Imagining Global Reporting

    Re-Imagining Global Reporting

    Re-Imagining Global Reporting is workshop focused on: identifying challenges within global reporting, exploring innovations and solutions, and brainstorming on how these changes could be implemented.

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  • Years of Living Dangerously – Advance Screening

    Years of Living Dangerously – Advance Screening

    Join us for an exclusive advance screening of National Geographic’s award-winning climate change documentary series Years of Living Dangerously.

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  • Mixed Messages: Navigating Between Fact, Fiction, Judgement

    Mixed Messages: Navigating Between Fact, Fiction, Judgement

    At times, media messages can be contradictory. How do news outlets make sense of it all and help or hurt the way in which we consume the news? Join us for a talk with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.

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  • Producing Public Affairs Documentaries

    Producing Public Affairs Documentaries

    Frank Koughan, senior producer of numerous PBS FRONTLINE documentaries and head of the documentary unit at Left/Right, will be talking about reporting and producing public affairs documentaries.

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