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Hon. John Wilkinson

Doreen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:55:54 +0000

Today at 2 pm, Ontario’s Revenue Minister the Hon. John Wilkinson will be participating in an Editorial Roundtable discussion in our main boardroom. Minister Wilkinson has been a member of the Ontario legislature since 2003, when he was first elected in Perth-Middlesex. Prior to the Revenue portfolio, he was Minister of Research and Innovation. In the past, [...]

The Arab Social World

Doreen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:29:38 +0000

For those unfamiliar, FORA.tv has been collecting and uploading big ideas on video from various conferences and think tanks from all around the world for about the last 5 years. Recently, an interesting Picnic 2009 presentation was posted entitled “The Arab Social Web”, with participation from Creative Commons, Al Jazeera and Lebanese NGO Social Media [...]

Paul Yuzyk Award for Multiculturalism

Doreen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:04:49 +0000

There still may be time: the deadline to nominate a candidate to receive the Paul Yuzyk Award for Multiculturalism is March 1, 2010. The federal Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism annual award recognizes “individuals who have made exceptional contributions to Canadian multiculturalism and the integration of cultural communities and new Canadians.” In an interesting spin, the award [...]

Gossage on Giambrone

Doreen — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:39:36 +0000

Perhaps a bit late now, but I feel compelled to close a loop. A little over 2 weeks ago, I wrote a post about our then-upcoming Editorial Board with (at-the-time) Toronto mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone. The event was attended, and subsequently reported, by a number of our partner network journalists. Giambrone spoke about his vision of [...]

Adam Giambrone

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:37:44 +0000

On Monday (February 1), we will be hosting Toronto Councillor/Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Chairman Adam Giambrone for an editorial board discussion with some of our partner publishers and the Town Crier (our sister subsidiary’s group of Toronto community newspapers). Over recent weeks there has been speculation that Councillor Giambrone would enter the upcoming Toronto mayoral race; [...]

Ontario’s Chief Diversity Officer: Noëlle Richardson

Doreen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:48:01 +0000

As some of you many know, on Tuesday, January 19, DMS President/CEO Lori Abittan will be participating in an upcoming Canadian Journalism Foundation panel, “The Rise of “Ethnic Media”. One of the other interesting aspects of this panel, is its moderator: the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) of Ontario’s Public Service (OPS): Noëlle Richardson. Some of you [...]

Who is the “mainstream media” anyway?

Doreen — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:23:19 +0000

Barely a week into the New Year, the future of newspapers discussion is still upon us. In fact, as I was writing this, a link to a Wall Street Journal Online’s listing of 200 “Best and Worst Jobs of 2010” – was being sent around Twitter via the accompanying tweet (courtesy of Slate): ‘Newspaper reporter’ is [...]

Thank You

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:25:30 +0000

In some ways, the last twelve months feel like one big blur. It’s difficult to try and capture all of DMS’s accomplishments, but some definite highlights come to mind. This year, our main boardroom was the site of over a dozen – many, political – editorial roundtable discussions featuring Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, Ontario Premier [...]

My Top 9 of 2009

Doreen — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:42:35 +0000

With 2009 coming to a close, end-of-year lists seem to be on everybody’s mind. So, like last year, below are some of the online “wows” I discovered over the last 12 months. Limiting this list to nine was daunting, but here’s what I came up with … in no particular ranking: 1. Journalistics Blog – is [...]

Five years today…

Doreen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:45:00 +0000

I was a little torn on what to post today … it was between two very different ideas. In the end, “the risotto” (below) won out, albeit a little NSFW. (I’ll leave the other for Twitter.) My Dad loved Big Night … in fact, in more ways than one, Stanley Tucci (“Secondo”) reminds me of him in [...]