News Innovation –
a panel discussion

Today, media outlets are faced with the reality of “innovate or die.” Canwest Editor-in-Chief Scott Anderson and Mathew Ingram, senior writer at the GigaOm blog network, will describe today's newsroom – and forecast the future of news – and the future of public relations during this one hour presentation. Moderated by Saleem Khan, news pioneer and national chairman of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Scott Anderson has been Sr. Vice-President , Content for CanWest since November 2007. In 2008 Scott became Editor-in-Chief of Canwest News Service in addition to his corporate role. From 2000 to 2007 he was editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen. In 2004 he was named vice-president, editor-in-chief CanWest publications, a role in which he oversaw a variety of editorial functions across Canada's largest newspaper chain and which evolved into his current position. He joined the Citizen in 1997 after three years as managing editor of the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal. During his time at the Telegraph Journal the newspaper won the first ever Excellence in Journalism Award for overall editorial excellence. This was an honour the Citizen also won in 2000.

Mathew Ingram is a senior writer with the technology blog network GigaOm. Prior to that he was an award-winning journalist with the Globe and Mail who spent the past 15 years writing about business, technology and new media as a reporter, columnist and blogger. He covered the IPO of Netscape Communications in 1995, was one of the first employees at globeandmail.com when it launched in 2000 and created the newspaper's first blog. Until January 2010 he was the Globe's first online Communities Editor, helping the paper and its staff understand and appreciate the benefits of social-media tools such as blogs, comments and Twitter. He also launched the Globe's ground-breaking Public Policy Wiki, writes for the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University and is one of the founders of Mesh, Canada's leading Web conference. Follow Mathew on Twitter @mathewi.

Saleem Khan is a professional journalist and digital news pioneer whose credits include the New York Times, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and CBC. He is the founder of Technovica, an editorial and consulting practice that supports media companies. Saleem created the first-of-its-kind Innovate News conference, which gives news staff and management practical knowledge and strategies to reshape media today and tomorrow. He is currently spearheading a series of initiatives to help the sector reimagine and reinvent itself through interdisciplinary innovation. Saleem is the national chairman of the Canadian Association of Journalists and a director of the charity CAJ Education Foundation (CAJEF). Follow Saleem on Twitter @saleemkhan.