Thursday 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. / CAJ Registration Desk - Mezzanine Foyer

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NOTE: Everyone who wants to take a tour must register in advance for security reasons - registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Register here via email or contact the CAJ office - Tel: 613- 526-8061 Fax: 613-521-3904

Friday 9:30 a.m. - Meet at CAJ Registration Desk - Mezzanine Foyer

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Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. / Burgundy Room

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Friday 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. / L'Orangerie Room

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Friday 2 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. / Palladian Room

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Friday 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. / CAJ Registration Desk - Mezzanine Foyer

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Print the Legend: A Critical History of Journalism in the Movies:

How are journalists depicted in the movies? More importantly, why are journalists depicted in the movies? What does their image in popular entertainment represent, and how has this image changed over the decades? In this lively interactive lecture and discussion, Toronto Star movie critic and "Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey" co-author Geoff Pevere surveys over seventy years of cinematic images of journalism.

Then...music to amuse messengers

The Charley Gordon Group has been playing together, and occasionally even working, for more than two years. For what it's worth, it may be the only modern jazz group in Canada with 40 per cent of its members working journalists. Gordon, trumpet and flugelhorn, is a columnist at the Ottawa Citizen. Peter Hum, piano, is deputy editor of the Citizen's techweekly. Hum has been known to compose tunes in honor of the titans of journalism. Since they don't have words, such compositions as Funky Conrad may promise more than they deliver, journalistically. Still, they are fun to play.

The civilian members of the group, all prominent Ottawa players are Geoff Dresser, guitar and vocals, Ken Kanwisher, bass, and Mike Essoudry, drums. In addition to originals, the group's repertoire consists of standards and jazz classics, by the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Wayne Shorter.

Friday, 8:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. / Adam Room

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Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. / L'Orangerie Room

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Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. / Burgundy Room

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Saturday luncheon with keynote speaker Neil Macdonald, Middle East correspondent for CBC Television News.

The Middle East Minefield will be his topic. The region is one of the most politically sensitive areas in the world, an often explosive mixture of ideologies and loyalties, history and tradition. It is a place which has sabotaged the careers of diplomats, Foreign Ministers and Prime Ministers.

What is it like to report on this region? How do you bring the truth to your audience? Is there one truth? How do you cope with seeing death and destruction almost every day, with never knowing when the next bomb may explode or when you may be caught in a cross-fire? How are you affected? What does it mean to your family and your personal life?

Neil MacDonald has dealt with all these issues. He will discuss his experiences and the difficulties of telling stories from the Middle East to Canadians back home.

Order yourself a ticket: it's not part of the basic registration package.

Saturday, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. / Ballroom

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The Frank Truth. For two years, film makers Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk turned their cameras on the country's chief mudslinger at Canada's gutter press magazine. They documented the behind-the-scenes workings of the Ottawa staff as they chased stories, invented pranks and defended tabloid reporting and satirical journalism. The film makers tenaciously interviewed or ambushed detractors and people who've been Frank-ed: targets such as Conrad Black, Rick Salutin, Dave Foley, Mike Harris, Wendy Mesley and Cathy Jones and Michael Valpy and a few supporters such as Christie Blatchford and Jan Wong. We see the enigmatic publisher Michael Bate squirm as he ponders possible conflicts of interest and ethical dilemmas.

For its premiere in September 2001, the Toronto International Film Festival enthused: "The Frank Truth is a funny, insightful and at times disturbing film that is always honest and revealing. Journalism may be a mug's game but, as The Frank Truth proves, mugs can be as intriguing as their subjects".

The Voices of War is a video documentary about the men and women of the CBC who've traveled in and out of Afghanistan over the first months of the war there reporting the conflict to Canadians. It aired on CBC Television in January. The documentary focuses on the working and living conditions of camera and production crews as well as foreign correspondents and includes personal views on their work, Afghanistan and its people.

Saturday, 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. / 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. / Macdonald Room

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Saturday, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. / French Corridor

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Saturday, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. / Ballroom

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After the awards, it's over to the National Press Club for a last round. (CAJ members attending the conference will be granted special access to the National Press Club.) Or check out some blues in the Byward Market - sponsored by the Ottawa Blues Festival. Check at the CAJ registration desk for more information.

Saturday, 10.00 p.m. to midnight/1:00 a.m. / Press Club or Blues in the Byward Market

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Sunday, 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. / Map of general area of run

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The Frank Truth. For two years, film makers Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk turned their cameras on the country's chief mudslinger at Canada's gutter press magazine. They documented the behind-the-scenes workings of the Ottawa staff as they chased stories, invented pranks and defended tabloid reporting and satirical journalism. The film makers tenaciously interviewed or ambushed detractors and people who've been Frank-ed: targets such as Conrad Black, Rick Salutin, Dave Foley, Mike Harris, Wendy Mesley and Cathy Jones and Michael Valpy and a few supporters such as Christie Blatchford and Jan Wong. We see the enigmatic publisher Michael Bate squirm as he ponders possible conflicts of interest and ethical dilemmas.

For its premiere in September 2001, the Toronto International Film Festival enthused: "The Frank Truth is a funny, insightful and at times disturbing film that is always honest and revealing. Journalism may be a mug's game but, as The Frank Truth proves, mugs can be as intriguing as their subjects".

Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. / Macdonald Room

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The Voices of War is a video documentary about the men and women of the CBC who've traveled in and out of Afghanistan over the first months of the war there reporting the conflict to Canadians. It aired on CBC Television in January. The documentary focuses on the working and living conditions of camera and production crews as well as foreign correspondents and includes personal views on their work, Afghanistan and its people.

Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m / Champlain Room

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Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. / Tudor Room

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Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. / Gatineau Room

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Sunday, 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. / Drawing Room

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Sunday Afternoon - 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. / Adam Room

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Sunday Afternoon - 1:30 to 3 p.m. / Adam Room

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