CFE Co-sponsoring Colloquium on “Reporting News in a Disbelieving Age”
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The manifold crises besetting journalism in Canada and internationally includes the growing public disdain for journalists and the media. In an effort to address what can be done, the Centre for Free Expression is hosting and co-sponsoring a colloquium at Toronto Metropolitan University on June 5 and 6, 2025, titled: “Reporting News in a Disbelieving Age: Standards of practice amid the crisis in journalism's credibility.”
The by-invitation event will allow journalists, researchers, and others from Canada, Quebec, South Africa, and elsewhere interested in the integrity of information about current affairs to discuss issues such as:
- Accountability, transparency, and public perceptions of news;
- AI, content progeny, and evolving best practices in verification;
- Journalists’ autonomy and the precarity of news work;
- Social development and diversity as factors in news choices;
- Disputes over (im)partiality, disclosure, and fairness;
- Truth and context in interactive and visual news;
- Digital democracy and the place of responsible journalism.
Dialogue on these and other topics will include consideration of insights from a larger interdisciplinary study of “essential standards for news reporting” headed by the Centre d’études sur les médias (CEM) at Laval University.
More program details will be announced starting in mid-February. Those interested in participating in the colloquium should contact Ivor Shapiro (ishapiro@torontomu.ca).
Along with the Centre for Free Expression, the conference is being sponsored by the Centre d’études sur les médias and the Faculty of Business, Communication Studies, and Aviation at Mount Royal University with support from the Journalism Research Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and Unifor.
