Introducing: David Rider
David Rider, our keynote speaker, is the Toronto Star’s urban affairs feature writer, responsible for in-depth coverage of city hall and other facets of Toronto life. Before that Rider was city hall bureau chief, in charge of covering the Mayor Rob Ford administration. He has reported and edited for other Canadian and international newspapers, as well as Reuters News Service and the CBC. Rider was a 2013-14 Southam Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College and, from 1998 to 2000, taught English and foreign affairs at Sano Senior High School in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.