Speaking Engagements
Keynote Address
How Fact-Checking Helped Me Write About Objectivity, Racism, and Power in Media, Truth In Journalism Conference, Carleton University, October 2022
Panelist
2022
Strategies for Equitable StoryTelling, Arab Conference at Harvard, April 9th 2022
Media, Art, and Social Change, Harvard Law School Film Society, April 7th, 2022
2020
Article Club: How Do We Fix Our Newsrooms?: Join the conversation with Pacinthe Mattar, journalist and author of the article, “Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists”, Waubgeshig Rice, journalist and author of the article, “Letter to a Young Indigenous Journalist”, Shree Paradkar, columnist and ombud at The Toronto Star and Angela Misri, digital director at The Walrus
Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion presents Anti-Racism Online Session with Nam Kiwanuka & Pacinthe Mattar: Combating Racism in the Media
Moderating/Conversations
2023
Whose Objectivity is it Anyway? In Conversation with Journalists Wesley Lowery and Pacinthe Mattar, Western University, September 2023
2022
"Re-Imagining Justice: A Conversation with LaTosha Brown and Pacinthe Mattar", Harvard University's first Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Forum, April 14th, 202
Interviews
2020
Garnering & Navigating Press for Black Artists with Pacinthe Mattar | Left of Centre: Conversations: In this Left of Centre Conversation, we sit down with journalist and producer Pacinthe Mattar, who walks us through the ins and outs of garnering, leveraging, and responding to press and media about your artistic work. Pacinthe shares insight, best practices, and guiding principles in navigating the press landscape (both traditional and non-traditional), and how to make sure your artistic voice and work are being recognized and honoured
2017
We Are The Future: Join Yassin Alsalman "Narcy" and Pacinthe Mattar for a thought-provoking conversation about art, media, representation, and futurity.
2014
Interview with Serge Ibaka (French/en français), Going behind the scenes of his first collection for Nobis, Pacinthe talks to NBA star Serge Ibaka about how dressing well is an art, the inspiration he drew from his dad's style growing up in the Congo and the parallels between ballin' and fashion
Podcasts/Radio
2020
It’s all Journalism — 437. Objectivity, racism, and the crisis of credibility (Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
It Belongs To The People — Diverse journalism with Pacinthe Mattar (Apple Podcasts | Spotify)
The Sunday Magazine — Passover, Easter and Ramadan have a new resonance in the midst of our current crisis
photo credit: Adeyemi Adegbesan