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Just like today&rsquo\;s social media\, the Cambridge Reporter newspaper had its champions and detractors. It shared h appy happenings\, photos of grinning high-school graduates\, and top score rs in your local bowling league.
\nOther times\, news stories and ed itorials stirred public opinion and stoked public anger about school closi ngs or dysfunction at the hospital. It sometimes offered tidbits of fake n ews.
\nThe Cambridge Reporter was the community&rsquo\;s voice for 1 57 years. When its last edition \;was printed on Sept. 19\, 2003\, it was Canada&rsquo\;s oldest operating newspaper at the time. \;
\nNow\, 20 years on\, how do you keep track of what&rsquo\;s going on in Ca mbridge\, as the city turns 50 years old? How worried are you as internet algorithms and Artificial Intelligence engine battle over what to tell you is news?
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About the Speaker
Kevin S wayze never expected to make a career of writing \; &ndash\;&ndash\; u ntil things didn&rsquo\;t start adding up as he planned.
\nKevin gre w up on a farm south of Hamilton\, Ontario. In high school\, he planned to go on to engineering school and learn how to build things. Scraping throu gh three math classes in Grade 13 prompted a change of mind.
\nInste ad\, he graduated with honours from the Journalism Print program at Conest oga College in 1986.
\nKevin&rsquo\;s co-op education work term was at the Cambridge Reporter\, writing business stories. A year later\, he wa s hired full-time as a reporter-photographer\, covering entertainment\, po lice\, courts\, local government\, and anything else he was assigned to. I n 2000\, he was promoted to news editor\, and managing editor in 2002. He was the last employee out the door when the paper folded on Sept. 19\, 200 3.
\nKevin then worked 13 years at The Waterloo Region Record\, writ ing mainly about Cambridge news and a weekly Cambridge Connection column. His last two years at The Record were as an online reporter\, writing for the website and social media.
\nHe left The Record in 2016. Since th en\, he&rsquo\;s worked in the communications office in the Health Science s Faculty at McMaster University and as Director of Communications in the office of MPP Kathryn McGarry. He now teaches business communication at Co nestoga College\, edits Neighbours of West Galt magazine\, and undertakes selected writing projects.
\nHe&rsquo\;s also a member of Cambridge Toastmasters\, is a two-time Bernice Adams Arts Awards nominee\, and vice- chair of the board of the Cambridge Food Bank.
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Cost:
Free