Past EVENTS
stitched! events include Q&As, panel discussions and conference presentations where we share our methodology and approach in conversation with other researchers, journalists, cultural practitioners and community organizers.
2025
2025 ILJF Roundtable: Journalism Education in a Time of Shifting Media and Public Needs
MindLabs | October 23, 2025 | Tilburg, The Netherlands
After successful editions in Finland (2022) and Canada (2023), the International Live Journalism Festival (ILJF) 2025 takes place in the Netherlands, across the cities of Tilburg and Eindhoven. This year, international scholars, journalists, and practitioners come together to explore, debate, and reimagine what live journalism can be. The theme of this year’s festival is Shaping Post-Normal Journalism Practices. This panel at the International Live Journalism Festival explored the challenges and opportunities in bringing live journalism into curricular spaces within journalism and media programs. Participants discussed the unique opportunities in programs in the Netherlands, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Balsillie School of International Affairs | October 14, 2025 | Waterloo, Canada
This panel, co-hosted by the Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster, the Conflict and Security Research Cluster, and the Zoryan Institute, explored the discuss the concept of “domicide” and how this can be applied to contemporary cases of violence that we are witnessing around the globe today.
TPFF Panel: When Genocide Wasn’t News
Another Story Bookshop | September 29, 2025 | Toronto, Canada
The Breach’s Desmond Cole in conversation with chapter contributors Sonya Fatah and Pacinthe Mattar about the new book When Genocide Wasn’t News: How Canadian media covered up the destruction of Gaza. The sharp and searing anthology lays bare the Canadian media establishment’s complicity in the destruction of Gaza. Published by The Breach, an award-winning independent media outlet, the collection brings together urgent investigations and analysis by leading independent journalists and advocates who set the record straight.
Photos: Hisham Qaddoumi
Panel: Covering Drone Wars in the Middle East and Beyond
Workbox in Dupont Circle | May 7, 2025 | Washington, DC
As Israel’s drone war on Gaza escalates and there is a rise in global spending on surveillance technologies and military-grade drone sales globally, journalists face mounting challenges. Drones are increasingly tools of warfare and also instruments of surveillance, psychological terror and legal gray zones. Journalists frequently find themselves in the crosshairs, sometimes literally (as is the case in Gaza and Lebanon), as states restrict reporting, deny access, criminalize the act of bearing witness and target them in attacks and communications blackouts. This panel, proposed in collaboration with AMEJA, will examine the barriers to reporting on drone warfare and the toll on civilians and those who document their stories. From Gaza to Pakistan to Ukraine to the U.S.-Mexico border, we explore how drone technologies reshape conflict and surveillance, and how journalists face mounting challenges in documenting these developments and holding power to account to uncover the myriad uses of unmanned aerial vehicles in complex emergencies.
2023
2023 International Live Journalism Festival
The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University | September 28-29, 2023 | Toronto, Canada
Live Journalism/ Journalism on Stage is the second-ever annual event produced by a consortium of live journalism organizations and researchers and presented for the first time in Toronto at the Toronto Metropolitan University’s Creative School. The Live Journalism collective is an initiative supported by the Power of Live Journalism research project (2019–2022) funded by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation in Finland, City, University of London and Toronto Metropolitan University.
The second annual live journalism gathering builds on the exciting energy created by its predecessor in May 2022 in Helsinki, Finland, bringing together the latest in research about this innovative form of live storytelling. It is a project designed and led by stitched! the live journalism lab at TMU that is run by Sonya Fatah, who received a SSHRC Connections Grant to build the festival. This year’s iteration will continue the work of building community among researchers and practitioners, and sharing this body of knowledge and expertise with students in journalism and/or journalism–adjacent programs across Canada, while continuing the research and practice through various outputs over the course of the year.
