LEADER
Don Spandier has been in the news and documentary production business for over 40 years. As a reporter, producer, director, editor and as an executive, worked in every aspect of documentary and news production… across Canada and overseas as well. From 2009 to 2017, he was responsible for two flagship news broadcasts by CBC News; daily 30-minute radio newscast The World at Six, now called Your World Tonight, and the prime time TV newscast, The National.
BOOK
Manipulating the Message: How Powerful Forces Shape the News by Cecil Rosner
(Dundurn Press, 2023)
ISBN-13: 978-1459751255
SEMINAR OVERVIEW
“How can democracy work with an informed citizenry, if our media doesn’t present the truth?”
How information and news is gathered and disseminated has always been evolving, but most of the change we’re going to look at is in the last 40 years, when seminar leader Don Spandier was there, in the middle of it.
During this time, the news has been radically transformed. The technological revolution of the internet fundamentally changed journalism, and the news business. We’ll focus especially on:
- How social media companies that swept in quickly understood how to maximize their revenue from the expanding population of viewers and consumers they had on the internet
- How the inability of news companies to take financial advantage of the change in the communications world left them hobbled.
The consequences of this victory of tech over journalism are now playing out.
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