Can we trust what we read? In an era of misinformation, deepfakes, and shrinking newsroom budgets, the reliability of the news is under constant scrutiny. In this in-person panel discussion, journalists Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Sunny Dhillon, and Chantal Braganza bring their frontline experience to a candid conversation about the state of today’s media industry and the pressures shaping modern reporting.
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Elamin Abdelmahmoud (he/him) is the host of CBC’s daily arts and culture show Commotion, and the author of the No. 1 best-selling memoir, Son of Elsewhere.
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Sunny Dhillon (he/him) is a former news reporter and has written about the challenges journalists of colour can face. Hide and Sikh is his first book. He currently attends law school.
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Chantal Braganza (she/her) is a writer, editor, and recipe developer living in Toronto.
Samira Mohyeddin (she/her) is an award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She has a Master of Arts in Modern Middle Eastern History from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of Genocide Studies from the Zoryan Institute. For nearly a decade, she was a producer and host at Canada’s national public broadcaster, CBC Radio and CBC Podcasts. She resigned from the CBC in November 2023 and is now the founder and managing editor of On The Line Media, focusing on critical and contextual journalism.
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