Michael Cooke
Creative force as Editor-in-chief at Toronto Star, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Daily News, Vancouver Province. VP Editorial, Sun-Times Media Group of Greater Chicago. Numerous other roles in newsroom management and reporting and editing.
Work with media, corporate and individual clients in North America and worldwide: from core journalism skills and tactics to business development and leadership, to crisis management to digital realities to how media works and more. Much more.
Ethiopia 2024: Working with African Union member states
Philippines 2023: helped develop a “dealing with disinformation” training and guide for media in Manila
Kenya 2024: working sessions at the African Media festival and with Nairobi radio stations
Bangladesh and Turkey: returned to in-person work Feb. 17-March 3, 2022.
Also October 2021 (on Zoom from Vancouver) in person January 2020 and October 2018, with thanks to FOJO Media Institute of Sweden and MRDI in Dhaka.
India (Mumbai and Kerala, Feb. 2019, and Chennai, June 2019), thanks WAN-IFRA)
Previously Ghana, D.R. of Congo, Malawi, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Myanmar, Australia, Afghanistan, Haiti, Portugal, Indonesia, UK and North America.
Chair at Journalists for Human Rights, Toronto.
A founding Fellow of the Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation, an initiative of Navigator, Canada’s leading strategy and communications firm, of which he is a senior advisor.
Based in Toronto, Canada
Murdoch Davis
Business and journalism driver as a Publisher, Editor-in-chief, Editorial VP, Business Transformation Director, Executive Editor and more, in several of Canada’s major cities.
Held national roles in Canada as well as three locales in the USA.
Twice honoured in Canada’s National Newspaper Awards for editorial writing.
Work with media, corporate and individual clients in North America and worldwide: from core journalism skills and tactics to business development and leadership, to crisis management to how media works and more. Much more.
Bangladesh and Turkey: returned to in-person work Feb. 17-March 3, 2022.
Also October 2021 (on Zoom from Vancouver) in person January 2020 and October 2018, with thanks to FOJO Media Institute of Sweden and MRDI in Dhaka.
India (Chennai, June 2019, and Mumbai and Kerala, February 2019), thanks WAN-IFRA.
Previously in Sierra Leone and Ghana, and throughout North America.
Based in Valparaiso, IN, USA
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