Anita Li is the founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of The Green Line, a community-driven news outlet in Toronto, and serves as Journalism Innovator-in-Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University. Anita has over two decades of experience as a multi-platform journalist, having started her career as a reporter and editor at Canadian legacy outlets, including The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and CBC. She later worked in strategic, management-level roles at American digital media publications, such as Complex, Fusion and Mashable. Anita was also director of communities at The Discourse. Anita runs a consultancy where she advises journalism outlets and institutions on community-driven journalism, audience engagement, news entrepreneurship, emerging media business models, newsroom diversity, media ethics and journalism innovation. She is a member of the board of directors for LION (Local Independent Online News) Publishers and formerly for the Online News Association, as well as an alum of the inaugural Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media. She also co-founded Canadian Journalists of Colour, a rapidly growing network of racialized media-makers in Canada.
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LVR LandesMuseum
// Auditorium
Festival ticket required
With Derrick Cain, Méline Laffabry, Keri Mitchell and Anita Li
Our panel discussion will contribute to the festival by shedding light on the power of storytelling and relationship building. Fostering unity, collaboration, inspiring action, empowering communities.