Guest talk: Mike Wise, CBC "i-reporter", POSTPONED

The Infoscape Centre for the study of Social Media is pleased to welcome
CBC "i-reporter" Mike Wise. Mike will discuss his front line experience
as one of Canada's foremost electronic or "multi-platform" journalist. 

Mike Wise has had a life-long interest in politics and the media. He
combines both with his job as the Queen's Park correspondent for CBC Television, a position he has held since 2002.

He has covered the blackout of 2003, the SARS crisis, World Youth Day, as well as numerous leadership campaigns and
provincial and federal elections. His work has appeared on The National, Canada
Now, CBC Radio, and CBC Newsworld.

Wise is also a trained CBC video-journalist. Equipped with his own
video-camera and gear, he shot his own daily stories for six years. From
1997 to 2000, he covered local arts and entertainment for the CBC in
Toronto, focusing on covering local music, theatre and the Toronto International Film
Festival.

Wise's two decades long involvement with the CBC began at the age of
17 as a High School co-op placement and continues to the present day.
One of his first responsibilities was working on the 1988 federal election
broadcast, even though he wasn't legally old enough to vote.

He graduated in 1994 with an honours degree in Political Studies from
Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.