Storyworks At Centennial College

Centennial College Journalism students have contributed to the Global Summitry Project since 2018, including providing media coveraage from T20 and G20 Summit meetings in Buenos Aires as well as the Global Solution Summit (GSS) from Berlin.

This program at The Story Arts Centre recognizes that ‘experience is everything’. In partnership with the Global Summitry Project (GSP) Storyworks provides chosen journalism students with ‘bite-sized’ industry experience. These students join GSP in its various global governance initiatives interviewing experts and providing background stories for the ongoing Projects.

Storyworks Interviews 2023

Beatriz Ferreira Silva – The Brazilian environment ministry: Same leader, different reality – Two decades later, what changed in Marina Silva’s role as a minister?

Khaleda Khan – The G20, youth, and looking ahead to the future

Storyworks Interviews 2022

Due to the continuing pandemic, the Storyworks student journalists were unable to travel to any of the targeted Summits that the Global Summitry Project hoped to attend. Instead, this year we turned our attention to journalists and the growing threat to press freedom for journalists in a growing list of populist and authoritarian governments. As these interviews and videos show the threats are very real and threaten not just press freedom but democracy itself.

The following interviews are the results of these inquiries. Cyan Ko and Henrique Fernandes Faustino worked with us in the Spring and this Fall we had the pleasure of working with Jamie Casemore.

A special thanks and shoutout goes to Professor Tim Doyle who heads up the Journalism Storyworks Project at Centennial College and who advised these student journalists. I am sure you will find these interviews revealing and valuable.

Jamie Casemore – The significance of India’s G20 presidency

Jamie Casemore – Why the G20 matters and why you should care

Cyan Ko – Interview with a Chinese Journalist

Henrique Fernandes Faustino – Interview with Arzu Yildiz, The truth always comes late


Storyworks Interviews 2021

Due to the continuing pandemic, the Storyworks student journalists were unable to travel to any of the targeted Summits that the Global Summitry Project hoped to attend. Instead, this year we turned our attention to journalists and the growing threat to press freedom for journalists in a growing list of populist and authoritarian governments. As these interviews and videos show the threats are very real and threaten not just press freedom but democracy itself.

The following interviews are the results of these inquiries. A special thanks and shoutout goes to Professor Tim Doyle who heads up the Journalism Storyworks Project at Centennial College and who advised these student journalists. I am sure you will find these interviews revealing and valuable.

Tahreem Fatima – Interview with the Rt. Honourable Paul Martin

Anastasiya Gordiychuk – Interview with Colin Bradford

Arsheen Shamalia – Interview with Susan Thornton

Tianlei Wu – Interview with Senator Jack Austin


China-West Dialogue Interviews 2020

The current stories reflect work undertaken with the GSP as it launched the China-West Dialogue (CWD) Project at Boston University. This includes articles from the. Journalism students at StoryWorks.

Akrit Michael – Profile of Dr. Kerry Brown

Meredith Omstead – Coronavirus is Accelerating the China-West Divide

Meredith Omstead – U.S Scholar says foreign policy with China hasn’t failed

Two decades later, what changed in Marina Silva’s role as a minister? Disclaimer: Beatriz Ferreira Silva is a Brazilian reporter whose native

Angela Minyi Hou enjoys learning languages, reading, and listening to music from different cultures. She is also passionate about global summitry, trade

Possibly the most significant G20 in years began in December when India assumed the presidency of the international forum. And even if

Of all the summits that happen throughout the year, the G20 gets all the headlines, but what is the G20 and why

One particular night in 2016 stands out in her memory. Turkish journalist Arzu Yildiz recalls holding her seven-month-old daughter and cautiously stepping

With a white curtain as the background for a Zoom meeting, she wore a pair of glasses and earphones showing in front

Former Prime Minister Paul Martin is optimistic about the role of indigenous youth in the future but says there is much work

In the world of diplomacy, former U.S. assistant secretary of state, Susan Thornton believes young voices are just as important as the

Jack Austin, a former senator and federal minister of the Liberal Party of Canada who has been committed to building ties between

Colin Bradford was always passionate about making the world a better place, even if it meant working out of the spotlight. He