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...
Natalie Turvey
Natalie Turvey is President and Executive Director of The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF), a not-for-profit organization that fosters 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 introducing new journalism awards and fellowships and by expanding the foundation's monthly public speakers’ series - CJF J-Talks - across the country. Under Natalie’s leadership, the CJF developed a national news literacy program to bring greater media literacy to students and later expanded the program to voting-age citizens to help all Canadians understand the difference between fact-based journalism and misinformation the digital world.
In 2018, Natalie spearheaded the first ever World News Day, to create public awareness about the value of fact-based journalism in our society. Natalie serves on numerous industry advisory bodies and selection committees for journalism awards and fellowships.
Events IJF 2020
How is media literacy faring in the fight against ‘fake news‘?
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...
