The Need for Speed

The pressure to be first with breaking news has never been more intense. The speed of social media has changed the pace of news reporting. Join CNW for breakfast and find out how CTV's newsroom produced gold-medal Olympic news coverage with Jeff Little, Managing Editor, CTV Calgary and discover how Reuters is changing its game with Jeff Jones, Senior Reporter.

Jeff Little – Jeff Little has been in broadcast journalism for the past fifteen years. He worked in local news rooms in western Canada before moving on to the national news. He was a correspondent for both CTV National News and Report on Business Television. In his current position as Managing Editor at CTV News Calgary, he is responsible for coordinating the station's day to day news coverage.

Jeff Jones has two decades of journalism experience and has worked for Reuters, the world's largest news agency, for 15 years. Based in Calgary, he covers energy, environment, politics and general news. Over the past year he has also been coordinator of in-depth energy stories from Reuters' Canadian and U.S. reporters. Recent assignments have included covering a joint U.S.-Russian science expedition aboard a research vessel in the Bering Strait, a major feature on the future of Arctic gas pipelines as well as the Vancouver Winter Olympics, where he led curling coverage. Read Jeff's blog on the Reuters website.