Beyond the Headlines: Covering Local Elections

About the Event: here will be a moderated panel discussion on municipal elections with three celebrated and veteran municipal journalists: Justin McElroy of the CBC, Tyler Olsen of the Fraser Valley Current and the Tyee and our very own editor in Chief from the Squamish Chief, Jennifer ThuncherThis is a night of election tales, food, and hopefully debunking some ideas on what has worked and hasn't worked in local elections and how the job of a journalist has changed over the years. T.

When: February 26,
Doors 7pm
Event starts at 7:30pm
Price: Pay what you can, suggested price of $10

Panel Bios:
Justin McElroy: Justin McElroy is CBC British Columbia's Municipal Affairs Reporter, covering city politics from Anmore and Zeballos across the province. His stories can be seen in video, print, radio, podcast, TikTok, and anywhere else people are consuming their news these days. In his spare time he likes to curl and rank things (though not necessarily in that order).
Jennifer Thuncher:Journalist Jennifer Thuncher has been at The Squamish Chief since 2014 and editor since 2018, covering four federal elections. three provincial elections and three municipal elections. She has four grown sons who all vote for different political parties at the federal level, which makes family dinner nights interesting.
She has won several journalism awards for her Squamish coverage, including the Jack Webster Shelley Fralic Award in 2022.
Tyler Olsen:Tyler Olsen is a senior editor at The Tyee. He writes stories on a variety of topics and edits pieces by other journalists. Before joining The Tyee he helped start the Fraser Valley Current and ran the outlet for four years. He has also worked as a reporter at community newspapers in Vernon, Chilliwack, and Abbotsford. He has won a National Newspaper Award and four Jack Webster Awards.

Important inclusion at the bottom: This event was made Possible by a grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Columbia Journalism School

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