J-Net on Tour

To organize a training session in your country, contact Julian Sher.

Past tours in 2003:

• January 28 Montreal: Journal de Montreal
• January 29 Vancouver, B.C. (via web) Alive magazine
• February 7, Trois Rivieres, Quebec: Conférence des Hebdos
• February 14, Moncton, New Brunswick: Radio-Canada. Contactez Marie-José Laverdure
• February 15, Matane, Quebec: Radio-Canada. Contactez Marie-José Laverdure
  
• February 16, Rimouski, Quebec: Radio-Canada Contactez Marie-José Laverdure

Past tours in 2002:

• December 7,8 Sudbury, Ontario Contactez Marie-José Laverdure
• November 29 Quebec City      Fédération professionelle des journalistes du Québec
  
• November 16 Montreal      CAJ Writers Conference: Turning your investigative story into a book
• November 15 Toronto       Conference on the Wrongly Convicted, sponsored by AIDWYC
• November 4, Vancouver    Vancouver Sun newsroom training. Contact Valerie Casselton, City Editor
• October 31, Nov 1 Vancouver    University of British Columbia, Graduate School of Journalism. Contact Donna Logan
• July 30 - Aug 1 Singapore - Newsworld Asia. Top news and brooadcast executives gather to look at trends and technology. Julian Sher gives two special sessions. See the official Newsworld web site
• June 4 Toronto, Canada. Speech at the 2002 annual conference of trade and consumer magazines in Canada. Contact Karen Dalton
• April 11,12 Berne Switzerland. SwissInfo.
• April 9,10 TSR Geneva, Switzerland.  Pour les journalistes du réseau TSR. Contactez Jean Cesinski
• April 5 OECD, Paris.  Training for the world economic organization. Contact Helen Charles
• March 1-4 Johannesbourg, South Africa Institute for the Advancement of Journalism. Contact Gwen Ansell
• February 20-22 Vancouver, Canada. CBC. Contact Havoc Franklin and Marilyn Mercer
• February 1 Halifax, Canada. School of Journalism
  University of King's College. Contact Stephen Kimber
• January 31 CBC Halifax, Canada. Havoc Franklin and Marilyn Mercer
• January 28 CBC Toronto, Canada. Northern reporters. Contact Havoc Franklin
• January 18 CBC Toronto - Investigative Radio reporters. Contact Havoc Franklin
• January 14. 2002: Learning Centre, Glasgow, Scotland. Contact Carol Haining

Previous tours in 2001:

• May 11, 2001  Current Affairs TV producers, Toronto, Canada Contact Marilyn Mercer
• April 4, 2001   World Bank, Washington DC
• April 9, 2001  CBC Toronto   Contact Marilyn Mercer
• April 19-21. 2001    Paris France   United Nations Peace Institute
• March 7-10   TSR Suisse, Geneva
• March 5, 2001  CBC Toronto   Contact Havoc Franklin
• January 17, 2001:   CBC London. Contact Edith Champagne
• January 17, 2001:   Reuters Foundation.  London England.  Contact Jo Weir
• January 16, 2001:   BBC Policy Makers.   London England Contact Julian Coles
  

• January 10, 11, 2000: CNN Atlanta, USA   For CNN journalists. Contact Will King or Chuck Westbrook 
• January 20-21, 2000 TSR Geneva, Switzerland  Pour les journalistes du réseau TSR. Contactez Phillipe Mottaz  
• January 27-28, 2000 SVT, Stockholm, Sweden  For Swedish journalists at SVT.  Contact Marius Bratten
• February 21,22, 2000  APTN, Winnipeg, Canada:  Training for the new Aboriginal Peoples Training for Native broadcasters. Contact Tim Knight
• April 3, 2000  UNICEF, New York.  Contact Ruth Landy
• April 7-9, 2000 Canadian Association of Journalists, Halifax, Canada.     Annual meeting for Canadian journalists with one day of internet training
• April 10-11, 2000:  CTV News, Toronto, Canada. Contact Joanne Macdonald.
• June 12,13 2000: Carlton TV, Birmingham, Nottingham, UK:  Newsroom training. Contact Liz Cooper
• June 14-15, 2000  European Journalism Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands.     Internet research for broadcast journalists. Open to freelancers
• June 16, 2000: OECD, Paris.  Training for the public relations department of the world economic organization. Contact Helen Charles

• July 10-18, 2000: Kosovo, Reseau Liberté   Training of journalists in Pristina

• September 24-25: Finland TV  Contact Hannu Vilppone September 26-29, 2000    
• BBC Regions.   Training for BBC journalists from 13 regional centres.Contact Nigel Kay  
• October 16-19, 2000 BBC London.   Contact Peter Allegetti 
• October 20, NBC London.
• Nov 13, 2000:  Sky News, London, England
• Nov 14-17, 2000: Barcelona Newsworld Convention Top TV executives from around the world gather

"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate, yes, it can even inspire.  But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box"

-Edward R. Murrow,
talking about TV ... and why not the Internet?