Live from Ottawa: Me and journalism have a DTR* conversation

I’m in Canada’s capital city this week, to think about journalism.

I mean, I think about journalism all day, every day, but this is a week for contemplating what journalism means to me – and to you, our readers.

I’m spending the first four days at the Impact Hub in downtown Ottawa, where I’ll hug my FOG colleagues (I always forget how tall Ryan is) and we will sit down and map out the next several months of events, improvements and potential stories.

For the next few days, I’ll be with the Canadian Association of Journalists, attending our annual conference, moderating a panel on AI and then attending the awards. I’m finishing my first year on the CAJ board and helped with the awards, so I’m pretty excited.

That being said, it’s been a tumultuous year for us, for journalism, for the state of democracy in general.

I’m always torn about what direction to take our journalism. We have a very small group of seriously talented folks who deal with a firehose of stories that we simply don’t have the resources to cover. (Every non-profit worker reading this be like: Yep.)

So covering even the basic news out of the social good sector is impossible, never mind covering the solutions that you all are creating. It’s actually astounding.

So, it’s your chance to tell us: What do you want to see? What frustrates you? What do you like? What did we get right? What did we get wrong? Am I not as funny as I think I am? (Don’t worry, I can take it.)

Your responses will help inform our discussion, so fill out the form below, pretty please. It’s one question.

*DTR: Define the Relationship, for all us non-millenials