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    • Access to Information:
    A Practical "How-To" Guide

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    • There's a world of information sitting in government documents. Access to Information is a tool that can give you the information to enhance your next story, or provide the material for a whole series of articles or broadcasts. Using Access to Information effectively can be easier than you think if you know how to make the system work for you.

    • If you are a:

      * Print Journalist
      * Broadcast Journalist
      * Freelancer
      * Journalism Student
      * Researcher
      * An Interested Member of the Public


      this seminar is for you!

    Date: [top menu] Saturday, April 26, 2003

    Time: [top menu] 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

    Location: [top menu] NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Entrance: Booth Building, 165 Sparks Street - on the Sparks Street Mall, just west of O'Connor. Take elevator or stairs to second floor. Press Club door is right in front of the elevators on the second floor

    Details: [top menu] Learn the basics of the current legislation, how to make an effective request, how to make the best use of the material you obtain and more.

    Relaxed, interactive setting: There'll be lots of time for questions, a mid-way break for coffee and pastries, plus at 1 p.m., sandwiches and snacks (beverage of your choice extra), so you can chat with the presenters and your colleagues.

    Presenters: [top menu]
    Jim Bronskill
    Jim Bronskill
    CanWest News Service    		 Dave McKie
    CBC Radio News

    Jim Bronskill and David McKie are two journalists who have successfully used Access to Information legislation in their daily work. They are also experienced teachers and mentors in the field.

    Jim Bronskill, an Ottawa-based reporter for CanWest News Service (formerly Southam News), has been using and writing about Access to Information legislation for a number of years. A search of the Infomart database of Canadian news stories over the last three years shows more than 450 citations which have the by-line Jim Bronskill and the phrase "access to information". Last year Bronskill and Southam News colleague David Pugliese won the CAJ's top award for investigative journalism for their series "The Criminalization of Dissent", which made extensive use of Access to Information requests.

    David McKie has been an Ottawa-based reporter with CBC Radio for the past 15 years and is editor of the CAJ's Media magazine. McKie has used the federal Access to Information law as a starting point for many investigations on stories ranging from Health Canada's laws for the approval of drugs and medical devices to Correctional Service's Canada's attempts to deal with corrupt guards. McKie has presented workshops on using ATI at Carleton University's Journalism School and for the Canadian Association of Journalists.

    Cost: [top menu]

    CAJ Members: $30 in advance, $35 at the door (students $20 flat rate)

    Non-Members $40 in advance, $50 at the door (students $25 flat rate)

    (All prices include GST)

    Become a CAJ member! See: http://www.caj.ca/membership/index.html

    How to register: [top menu]

    Use this form which you can print to mail or fax.

    Questions? [top menu]

    Email: CAJ Ottawa Access to Information Event

    Phone: Leave a voice-mail message at 725-6279
    (message line courtesy First Stage/Sussex Place - if you hear their answering message, you have dialed correctly.)

    Brochure: [top menu] There is a one-page brochure in PDF format (812k) which you may download to print and share with friends and colleagues.
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