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Paula Todd

England
As seen in: The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, National Post, Hazlitt, Penguin Random House
Covers:  crime, education, equality, internet freedom, broadcasting, lgbt, mental illness, human behavior, misogyny, internet culture, free speech, cyberbullying, cyberabuse, utopia, aggression, investigative journalism, depression, teaching journalism, rape and death threats, freedom of expression, cyberstalking, sexual extortion, fairness, internet law, serial killing, access to information, rip trolls, violence, psychology, social media
Doesn't Cover: mushroom growing, drag racing, celebrity/fashion fusion features
digital journalism prof l media academic I content creator | lawyer | author l cautious optimist I photo: Zoran Milich

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Paula Todd is an investigative journalist and best-selling non-fiction writer, and a professor of broadcast, print and digital journalism. She is also a lawyer and a frequent speaker on digital behavior and influence, journalism, literacy and freedom of the press.
Todd’s latest book EXTREME MEAN: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online (Random House/McCleland&Stewart) is a unique look at the many reasons cyberabusers attack online. Her investigation stretches beyond cyerbullying to tormenting, har…

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Why the Internet Needs Zelda Williams: An Open Letter from Paula Todd

Why the Internet Needs Zelda Williams: An Open Letter from Paula Todd

Dear Zelda, You don't know me but I feel as if I know you, at least online. That's not as creepy as it sounds…

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Journalist Paula Todd on the psychology of online abusers

Journalist Paula Todd on the psychology of online abusers

Paula Todd, the author of Finding Karla and a professor of broadcast journalism at Seneca College in Toronto,…

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Extreme Mean - Paula Todd

Extreme Mean - Paula Todd

Cyberbullying, tormenting and revenge porn. Workplace digital skullduggery, online defamation and reputation …

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Paula Todd: Cyberstalkers, revenge-porn creeps, and other tales from the World Wide Hate Machine

Paula Todd: Cyberstalkers, revenge-porn creeps, and other tales from the World Wide Hate Machine

California Attorney General Kamala Harris had exhilaration in her eyes as she publicly announced in late 2013…

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'She froze:' Author Paula Todd describes moment she locked eyes on Karla Homolka, now mother of t...

'She froze:' Author Paula Todd describes moment she locked eyes on Karla Homolka, now mother of t...

The author of a new book has described the moment she finally locked eyes on notorious convicted killer Karla…

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Paula Todd's new book, Extreme Mean, examines 'trolls, bullies and predator's online' | Toronto S...

Paula Todd's new book, Extreme Mean, examines 'trolls, bullies and predator's online' | Toronto S...

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend" The thirteen-year-old California girl who took a beating online i…

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The Ghomeshi Paradox

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By Paula Todd
| Hazlitt Verified
For two weeks now, women have been breathing a little easier, holding their heads just a little higher and savouring the rare embrace of public support, as the neon halo of “Renaissance man” Jian Ghomeshi has flickered and gone dark. Ghomeshi never saw it coming, that backlash to the blacklash he’d tried to trigger on Facebook by accusing a supposedly jilted girlfriend of fabricating lies after he refused to become monogamous in the year-long relationship.
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Paula Todd: Why Karla Homolka haunts us still

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By Paula Todd
| National Post Verified
We can’t shake Karla Homolka, not her past, and now not her future. When news broke this week that the convicted serial killer and her children had been discovered living in a Montreal suburb, reporters were immediately calling for reaction, taking me back to that afternoon in Guadeloupe when I’d been as troubled as the parents in Châteauguay are today.
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Bill C-51 Poses a Serious Threat to Free Expression in Canada

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By Paula Todd
| huffingtonpost.ca
CP This is an abridged version of a longer article that will be published in the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) 2014-15 Review of Free Expression in Canada in early May. Bill C-51 is complex, dangerous, and poses a serious threat to free expression in Canada. If found to be in violation of the proposed legislation, citizens and visitors could wind up slapped with censorship orders, detained without due process or imprisoned for up to five years.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

The Toronto Star, Reporter

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! An electronic one and a manual one once at the museum

How is social media changing news?

Challenging timeliness, accuracy, real people interaction, censoring through cyberabuse, exposing us to great artists
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