Wednesday, January 28, 2009
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
University of Toronto Faculty Club
41 Willcocks Avenue
THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS IN A DIGITAL AGE with Angus Frame, Group Director, Digital Media, The Globe and Mail
What's happening to the newspapers? Will they still land on our doorstep five years from now or will we will we all have to fold our napkins, instead of our paper, and read the news on our computer as we sip our morning coffee? Are inky fingers a thing of the past? We keep hearing about cutbacks and layoffs at our daily newspapers, and some of us may even remember the days of morning and evening editions of the same paper, let alone tipping the delivery boy who came to collect the subscription payments. (Some of us were those newspaper boys!) Every day someone bemoans the end of the newspaper, yet newspapers are ubiquitous: in any TTC car or bus, someone will be reading a paper; newspaper boxes still adorn many street corners throughout our city; someone is always posting a link to a newspaper article on their Facebook page or talking about something read in one paper or another. And we're no longer limited to our local newspapers -- today we can read local news from almost anywhere in the world, and read coverage of international events from as many perspectives as we have time and inclination to seek out.
Obviously, when it comes to what some call the tension between fibre -- paper -- and cyber -- the online world, there is lots to discuss. And ANGUS FRAME knows about both realms. Trained at journalism at Ryerson University and political science at McMaster University, from 2001 to 2008 angus was the editor of globaleandmail.com, one of North America's most successful online newspaper editions, and assumed the role of group director of digital media at The Globe and Mail in September 2008. Indeed, he joined the Globe in 1996 and has worked in various capacities in the news as well as with the Report on Business. He also speaks frequently on the state of affairs in 21st century journalism. And if you came to last summer's Couchiching conference on "The Power of Knowledge" you watched him chair a lively session on "citizen journalism or amateur hour", with Paul Sullivan and Andrew Keen. But on January 28th we will all be able to hear Angus's views in more detail.
He is just the right person to lead us in a wide-ranging conversation about the future of newspapers in the digital age at our next Couchiching Round Table on January 28th, so please join us!
FEE:
$35 for CIPA members, $20 for CIPA student members $40 for nonmembers, $25 for students. Includes hot and cold hors d'oeuvres with wine from Henry of Pelham Family Estate GST not included. Call 416 494-1440, ext. 225, or e-mail
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