{"id":16821,"date":"2016-01-14T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16821"},"modified":"2016-01-14T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:49:15","slug":"georgekalogerakisuniversityclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/georgekalogerakisuniversityclub\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Le Journal de Montreal\u2019s investigative leadership revive Montreal dailies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Le<\/a> \"LeJournal\"<\/a>Managing Editor George Kalogerakis leads a\u00a0conversation\u00a0about the future of daily journalism, key investigations underway in\u00a0Montreal, and a scarcity of media talent at the University Club next Wednesday, January 20 from 5 until 7.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since its birth in the 1960s, Le Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em> has focussed almost exclusively\u00a0on the three\u00a0S’s \u2013 sex, sport and sang (blood)!\u00a0But the populist tabloid has changed dramatically in the past 15 years. It\u00a0still wants to be the ‘people’s paper,’\u00a0but now puts more emphasis on investigations and uncovering government waste.<\/p>\n

Le Journal<\/em> set up a sting operation to catch pedophiles targeting pre-teens on the Web, a first in Quebec. It tested 200 sushi shops and fish stores to show retailers selling fish under incorrect names. It described how a Quebec family manipulated multiple contests across Canada to win them all.<\/p>\n

Mr.\u00a0Kalogerakis, who was hired away from the Gazette<\/em>\u00a0in 2005,\u00a0will describe these investigations in detail.\u00a0He\u2019ll also talk about how Le Journal<\/em> still sees a vibrant future in print.\u00a0Despite tough times in the\u00a0media business, the paper\u2019s looking for\u00a0people with the ‘guts’ and ‘brains’ to look into corruption and crime on the heels of the revelations of the\u00a0Charbonneau Commission.<\/p>\n

Ask me for an invitation to this event if you want to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Managing Editor George Kalogerakis leads a\u00a0conversation\u00a0about the future of daily journalism, key investigations underway in\u00a0Montreal, and a scarcity of media talent at the University Club next Wednesday, January 20 from 5 until 7. Since its birth in the 1960s, Le Journal de Montr\u00e9al has focussed almost exclusively\u00a0on the three\u00a0S’s \u2013 sex, sport and sang (blood)!\u00a0But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-4nj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16826,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/journaldemontrealclubuniversitaire\/","url_meta":{"origin":16821,"position":0},"title":"Le leadership d’enqu\u00eate du Journal de Montr\u00e9al peut-il relancer les quotidiens de Montr\u00e9al?","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"January 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Le directeur de l'information, George Kalogerakis parlera aux membres du Cercle des journalistes de Montr\u00e9al le mercredi 20 janvier au sujet de l\u2019avenir des quotidiens, des enqu\u00eates cl\u00e9s en cours \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, et de la p\u00e9nurie de talent dans les m\u00e9dias d'information. 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