The state of journalism in Canada is coming under scrutiny in an event on Thursday in Toronto organised by the Canadian Media Research Consortium.

The one-day event, entitled The Future of News, aims to “bring together the best minds in industry and media studies to consider some of the challenges posed by today’s media landscape”.

The event aims to examine how audiences are changing, the impact of citizen journalism, the search for new business models and, as the title suggests, the future of “classic” news.

Perhaps more interestingly, the CMRC will present the results of new studies into how Canadian news habits are changing.

These are likely to show that the trend towards more people getting their news online is gathering pace in Canada.

Unfortunately I will not be there as I was unable to go to Toronto, but I am hoping to get hold of the research and will be writing about it.