Adapting the Journalism Tradition

The Conference Publishers President Mitchell Beer originally trained as a reporter and spent seven years in journalism, including almost three years in Canada’s Parliamentary Press Gallery. When the firm started sending writers onsite, he brought along a passion for clear, accurate, responsible reporting that still drives every assignment we undertake. The Conference Publishers’ approach to content capture adapts the best traditions of daily journalism to conference communications…with a few important differences.

• We do deliver snappy, accurate content while it’s fresh, in as many languages as necessary, in time for participants to take action on what they’ve learned onsite. That’s why one of our writers walked into our operations centre at a major event, looked around in wonder, and exclaimed: “You’re setting up a professional newsroom from a standing start!”
• We don’t function as an independent news source and we never practice “gotcha” journalism. Our clients review every word before it’s published, and our highest goal is to use conference content to help host organizations meet their objectives.
• Our work is built on a journalist’s passion for accurate, responsible storytelling and clear, precise writing.
• As social media’s role onsite continues to grow, you can count on us for accurate, third-party summaries. We make sure your speakers’ words take centre stage—no commentary, no editorializing, just the facts. Whether our output is a 140-character news tweet or a detailed summary report, we tell the story as it happened…creating a platform for as much opinion, commentary, and debate as any online community can produce.