At long last, it's become clear in media and technology circles that upgrading our information supply, while crucial, is not enough to solve the misinformation crisis. We also need to upgrade ourselve...
Natalie Turvey
Natalie Turvey is President and Executive Director of The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF), a not-for-profit organization that supports excellence in journalism through education, research, and one of the industry's most prestigious annual awards and fellowships program. During the last decade, Natalie has enhanced the reach and relevance of the CJF by developing new journalism awards and fellowships and by expanding the foundation's monthly public speakers’ series - CJF J-Talks – to a national audience. Natalie led the launch Canada’s first Black Journalism Fellowship program to develop emerging talent and give rise to Black voices and Black stories in Canada’s major media. Under Natalie’s leadership, the CJF developed a national news literacy campaign to help all Canadians understand the difference between fact-based journalism and misinformation the digital world.
In 2018, she spearheaded the first ever World News Day, a global initiative intended to draw public attention to the role that journalists play in providing trustworthy news and information that serves citizens and democracy. Natalie serves on numerous industry advisory bodies and selection committees for journalism awards and grant programs.
World News Day is a global campaign that unites journalists, newsrooms and news audiences around the globe to share the stories that show the power of trustworthy journalism to make a difference to ci...
Digital and social media have increased the burden on the public to differentiate between journalism-produced news, manipulative content and disinformation in an environment of information overload, d...
World News Day: share your stories, spotlight your impact, celebrate your journalism
In an age of misinformation and distrust of the media, World News Day brings together newsrooms from around the world for a single, critical mission: to highlight the power of journalism to effect dee...
Europe is leading the world in regulating the internet. In this session we will debate the positive and the negative, the intended and the unintended consequences - the lessons - of that regulation so...
Is quality information like quality nutrition? Can we map the building blocks of useful information online without further censorship? Is building a nutrition label for credible content a feasible con...
What is it like to have journalism change your life? On 3 May 2018, the Canadian Journalism Foundation took a moment to pause and celebrate the good and important work that journalism does in the wor...
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