Discourse Media was founded in March 2014 and in that short time has gained much recognition for our journalism innovation. Here is a listing of our recent and upcoming awards, nominations and speaking engagements.

2016

• Award: Winner of the CJF Innovation Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
• Talk: Closing presentation at hack/hackers Connect in partnership with Google News Lab. September 23, 2016 (Toronto)
• Workshop: Amplify Your Impact in partnership with 8 80 Cities and the Knight Foundation. June 27, 2016 (Toronto)
• Panel: The changing media landscape at the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network national conference. June 9, 2016 (Parksville, B.C.)
• Workshop: Solutions Journalism: Reporting on responses to social problems with New York Times journalist David Bornstein. June 3, 2016, Centre for Social Innovation (Toronto)
• Panel: Can we improve coverage of Indigenous issues through collaboration? with Chief Robert Joseph. May 27, 2016, Canadian Association of Journalists national conference (Edmonton)
• Panel: Beyond competition: multi-newsroom collaborations in a time of scarcity with Anne-Lise Boyer (Journalism++), and Andrew DeVigal (Agora Journalism Centre at the University of Oregon). April 9, 2016, International Journalism Festival (Perugia, Italy)
• Panel: Launching new products from the newsroom with Celeste LeCompte (ProPublica), Aron Pilhofer (The Guardian), Madhulika Sikka (NPR), Tom Standage (The Economist). April 9, 2016, International Journalism Festival (Perugia, Italy)
• Panel: The Future of Journalism with David Beers (The Tyee) and Paul Willcocks, former publisher of the Victoria Times Colonist. April 3, 2016, Vancouver Press Club (Vancouver)
• Talk: Journalism Entrepreneurship presentation to the Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellows at City University of New York. March 28, 2016

2015

• Award: 2015 Bob Carty Fellowship awarded by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
• Award: 2015 finalist for “Best Data Journalism Website of the Year” by the Global Editors’ Network at the International Data Journalism Awards.
• Award: 2015 AmEx Emerging Social Innovator.
• Award: 2015 solutions journalism fellowship from Ashoka Canada.
• Talk: U.B.C. Graduate School of Journalism day one orientation keynote. September 8, 2015 (Vancouver)
• Talk: New models of journalism at the Canadian Association of Journalists national conference. June 7, 2015 (Halifax)
• Workshop: Amplify Your Impact in partnership with 8 80 Cities and the Knight Foundation. June 22, 2015 (Toronto)