Join the Community Foundation for Kingston and Area for lunch with Tony Burman. Mr. Burman will discuss the future of news in the age of Al Jazeera. This event will be held at The Cataraqui Golf and Country Club and includes a lunch buffet.
Fee options:
$50 (Tax receipt=$30)
$100 (Tax receipt=$80)
$500 (Tax receipt=$480)
Register here.
Tony Burman is the former head of Al Jazeera English and CBC News. As of September, he will be the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair In News Media and Technology in Ryerson’s School of Journalism.
Prior to that, he has been with the Al Jazeera Network, based in Qatar and Washington. He was managing Director of Al Jazeera’s international English-language news channel from 2008-2010, and has been Al Jazeera’s head of strategy for the Americas based in Washington for the past year. He has overseen AJE’s success in expanding its reach and reputation in the U.S. and Canada as one of the world’s leading global news providers.
Before Al Jazeera, he spent more than three decades as an award-winning news and documentary producer at CBC News in Canada, including nearly eight years as its Editor-in-Chief.
While at the CBC, he was Executive Producer of The National for eight years and Senior Documentary Producer for CBC’s nightly current affairs program, The Journal. He produced many documentaries that were rebroadcast on the BBC, PBS and other international networks.
Tony was born in Montreal, educated at Loyola College and began his jounalism career as a reporter with The Montreal Star.
