In early 2020, a pandemic brought the world to a standstill. By summer, the quiet had erupted. All eyes were on Minnesota following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. That attention, a...
Anita Li
Anita Li is a longtime journalist, news entrepreneur, media consultant and educator. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of The Green Line, a local Toronto-based news outlet. Anita has over a decade of full-time experience as a multi-platform journalist at outlets across North America. She is also a journalism instructor at Ryerson (X) University and Centennial College in Toronto, as well as at the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Her areas of expertise include community-driven journalism, audience engagement, journalism entrepreneurship, media business models, newsroom diversity and media ethics. Anita co-founded Canadian Journalists of Colour in 2018, and has been a member of the Online News Association board of directors since 2020. To keep up with Anita, subscribe to The Other Wave, her innovation newsletter about challenging the status quo in Canadian journalism.
Events IJF 2022
How local news can empower civic engagement and the fight against misinformation
With so many seemingly intractable problems facing societies worldwide, negative “if it bleeds, it leads” headlines are leaving news consumers anxious and demoralized. Meanwhile, misinformation an...
This panel will examine how technology is privileged in discussions about journalism startups despite evidence that structural power relations such as gender, race and colonialism matter as much or mo...
