Truth under pressure: Finding the facts in a noisy world

Join us for this special symposium as journalists discuss their areas of expertise including image & video verification in a growing sea of fakes, covering the increasingly contested arctic region, and border issues in the era of Trump. All are welcome.

Featuring:

• Jeremy Copeland - Lecturer in the Master of Media in Journalism & Communication program, FIMS
• Patrick Dell - Visual Journalist, The Globe and Mail
• Janice Dickson - Reporter, The Globe and Mail
• Austyn Gaffney - Freelance Reporter and Instructor at the University of Vermont's Centre for Community News
• Angela Murphy - Foreign Editor, The Globe and Mail & current FIMS Asper Fellow
• Nathan VanderKlippe - International Correspondent, The Globe and Mail

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Hosted by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and the Asper Fellowship in Media.

Panelist Bios:

Angela Murphy has been the Globe and Mail’s Foreign Editor for almost nine tumultuous years, steering a team of correspondents stationed around the world. She guides the Globe’s international coverage, including the United States, and is leading the reporting on Donald Trump’s second term in office. As the winner of the Asper Fellowship in Media for 2026, she has been teaching a course at Western on reporting on the changing Canada/U.S. relationship. Before becoming Foreign Editor, she did an award-winning project on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and served as the Globe’s Toronto Editor. She has a Master of Arts in Journalism from Western University.

Patrick Dell is an award-winning visual journalist who has worked in news for 30 years. As Senior Visuals Editor, Patrick’s current focus is reporting on dis- and misinformation, including generative AI and its impact on our information landscape. Patrick directed the feature documentary, Shooting War, featuring nine of the world’s top conflict photographers reflecting on careers spent on the front lines, and the physical and psychological scars they live with now. He was an editor and producer in Australian television before moving to Canada in 2006.

Austyn Gaffney is a freelance writer based in Vermont. She was previously a fellow on The New York Times climate desk and an environmental reporter for VTDigger. Her work can be found in The Atlantic, Grist, The Guardian, High Country News, National Geographic, The New York Times, Oxford American, Rolling Stone and The Washington Post, among others. She received her MFA in nonfiction writing from The University of Kentucky. She was born in Ontario, Canada and raised in Kentucky.

Janice Dickson covers international affairs for The Globe and Mail. She joined The Globe’s foreign desk in 2023, and has covered Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and global issues. Janice has also reported from across the United States, covering such topics as immigration, trade and politics. Previously, Janice spent nearly five years in The Globe’s Ottawa bureau. In 2021, Janice helped lead The Globe’s coverage of the federal government’s failure to bring Afghans who worked for Canada’s diplomatic and military missions in Afghanistan to safety. She won an Amnesty International Media award for her work. Janice has reported from more than a dozen countries. She holds a Master of Arts, Journalism, from Western University.

Nathan VanderKlippe is an international correspondent for The Globe and Mail, covering a range of issues including migration, conflict, politics and business in Latin America, Ukraine, the Middle East and the United States. Prior to that, he was the Globe's Asia correspondent, based in Beijing. He won the World Press Freedom Canada award and a National Newspaper Award for his stories on the plight of the Uyghurs in China. In Beijing, he served multiple terms on the board of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China, including as president.
Prior to joining the Globe in 2009, VanderKlippe was a print and television correspondent in Western Canada based in Calgary, Vancouver and Yellowknife. He has covered Canada's energy industry, Indigenous issues and Canada’s north.

Jeremy Copeland is an award-winning journalism and professional communications educator and former international multimedia journalist, dedicated to inspiring and teaching skills to the next generation of media professionals at Western University. He has worked around the world for CBC, BBC, and Al Jazeera English and his career has taken him from Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, to Washington, London, Baghdad, and South Asia. He is a journalism instructor for the Master of Media in Journalism & Communication (MMJC) program as well as for the undergraduate Media and Communication Studies (MACS) program in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.