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Citizen feedback, bloggers, virtual story meetings…these are just a few of the innovations in content creation under way in journalism. The editorial gatekeepers are standing aside and making way for you. Join us for a CJF Forum on the benefits and risks to editorial quality and find out how new ideas are building audiences.

Making citizen contributions work with moderator Wilf Dinnick, founding editor and CEO of OpenFile, and speakers Dan Dunsky, executive producer of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin; Andrew Lundy, director of Globalnews.ca; Jennifer MacMillan, communities editor with The Globe and Mail; and Rachel Nixon, director of digital media for CBC News and Centres.

John Paton's controversial strategy for saving the newspaper industry is transforming a chain of 150 papers including established titles like The Denver Post, The Detroit News and the San Jose Mercury News. Paton, a former publisher of the London Free Press and Sun Media executive and now CEO of New York-based Digital First Media, believes that digital is where the money is and he’s got the track record to back that up. Named “Publisher of the Year” in 2009 by Editor & Publisher, Paton shared his insights, followed by a conversation with Douglas Knight, president of St. Joseph Media.

Join moderator Jackson Proskow, Global Toronto's municipal affairs reporter; Robyn Doolittle, Toronto Star urban affairs reporter; Royson James, Toronto Star municipal affairs columnist; Marcus Gee, The Globe and Mail Toronto columnist; and Jerry Agar, host of The Jerry Agar Show on Newstalk 1010, for a discussion about the media's relationship with the Mayor's office.

Hayden Kenez tuned in to NewsTalk 1010 last week only to hear Christie Blatchford tell the world he called her a douchebag. How one student journalist learned the hard way how damaging the media can be when they get the story wrong.

At this year’s annual Democracy and Journalism lecture, former Calgary police chief Christine Silverberg discussed the relationship between democracy and journalism from her unique perspective.

A group of Concordia journalism students delve into the role social media and journalism can play in preventing mass atrocities and genocide in the premier edition of this Journalists for Human Rights podcast. This podcast was originally broadcast on Rabble.ca

Join Amanda Lang, senior business reporter for CBC News and co-host of The Lang And O'Leary Exchange, along with Elena Cherney, editor of The Globe and Mail's Report on Business, and former SVP of Corporate Communications for RBC, David Moorcroft, for a roundtable discussion on the state of financial journalism.

Jeff Anders (The Mark), James Baxter (iPolitics), David Beers (The Tyee) and Wilf Dinnick (OpenFile) discuss their business and editorial visions. Q&A moderated by BNN host Andrea Mandel-Campbell (PART 2)

Mark Blevis, a digital public affairs strategist whose data crunching has been sourced by the Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and others, will share his findings on the role of social media in the election. Chris Boutet, senior producer of digital media at the National Post, and Kenyon Wallace, Toronto Star online editor and reporter, joins Mark in a discussion of Canada's first so-called "social media election" and its coverage. Jesse Hirsh, internet strategist and broadcaster, will moderate and direct the Q&A.

Brian Deer spent seven years investigating research that linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism, originally published in 1998 in the British medical journal the Lancet. In a series of articles for The Sunday Times of London and in a British Channel 4 documentary, he exposed the research's key finding as a sham. His investigation ultimately resulted in the British Medical Journal denouncing the research as fraudulent in January 2011. On February 15, we welcomed Brian Deer to Toronto to speak about lessons learned during his investigation. Following his presentation, Brian joins a panel discussion with Penny Park, director of Science Media Centre Canada; Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, a University Health Network (UHN) staff respirologist and a deputy editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal; and Dr. Miriam Shuchman, chair of the Research Ethics Board at Women's College Hospital. The discussion is moderated by the host of Discovery's Daily Planet, Jay Ingram.