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Our staff consists of award-winning television, media producers, and professionals. Paul Jay- Chair of the Board, CEO, Senior Editor. Creator and Executive Producer of CBC Newsworld's debate program counterSpin. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and founding Chair of Hot Docs!, the Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. www.jfilm.org Mishuk Munier - Director of News Operations. Mishuk has filmed throughout South East Asia as a news and documentary cameraman for BBC World Service, ARD1 and Fox/StarTV. Head of News Operations for the first private terrestrial network in Bangladesh, Ekushey TV (ETV), he taught broadcast journalism at the University of Dhaka. Sharmini Peries - Executive Director, Editorial Policy and Development. Sharmini has served as Executive Director of the following organizations: the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, the Royal Commission on Systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants and the Human Rights Code Review Task Force in Ontario. She has been an economic and political issues journalist for several publications, including Frontline India. Ania Smolenskaia - Ania is a graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design film and video program and has worked in production and post-production prior to joining the Real News team, where she found a way to successfully marry her two passions: art and politics. Lia Tarachansky - Journalist Lia is an independent journalist working in print and video. Before coming to The Real News, she reported for Rabble.ca, Canadian Dimension, and The Dominion. Most of her writing is on the Middle East, Indigenous issues, and the environment. Joel Heard |




