Date/Time Date(s) - 10/07/202410:30 am - 12:00 pm
The Conversation Canada
The Conversation Canada is a daily independent online publication, delivering analysis and explanatory journalism from the academic and research community directly to the public. It’s a not-for-profit collaboration, where professional editors work directly with academics and researchers to publish articles for a wide audience. Education and Arts Editor Susannah Schmidt will explain the mission of The Conversation Canada, offer some background on how it helps post-doctoral researchers (and other academics) with knowledge mobilization, and give some tips on how to pitch a really great story idea. This is an interactive workshop. Participants are encouraged to bring story ideas to discuss and if possible, to purposefully browse The Conversation Canada platform in advance to think about stories already produced in their research areas.
Susannah Schmidt began working for The Conversation Canada in 2018, first as Education Editor and since 2019 also as Arts Editor. Since then she’s edited over 1,000 stories by academics that have been read about 18 million times through the United States, Canada, India, Australia, the United Kingdom and other countries. These reads have been on the Conversation platform and in digital publications including Today’s Parent, News 24, The Tyee, Maclean’s, Global News, Salon and The National Post. These figures don’t include print reads in The Globe and Mail and other newspapers.
As an editor with an editorial team at The Conversation Canada, Susannah’s roles include: covering breaking news via finding academic experts to comment on and analyze news; developing new story ideas and exploring different ways to frame and image them; following new research and collaborating with academics to generate story ideas from it; assessing pitches from academics and assigning and editing Education and Arts stories to them; fine-tuning story pitches with authors; copy editing stories in other areas. Susannah enjoys collaborating with and learning from researchers and her colleagues.