THE MAIN | Montréal, Canada

MANAGING EDITOR

“Get your sh*t together: making media easy for local business”

You want to see your name in the headlines? Think your bar(s) and/or restaurant(s) deserve the media's attention? It's not only a question of how to get attention but what to do once you've got it. In this presentation by a local food & drink journalist with over a decade of experience, you'll get the answers to both—as well as practical tips and tricks on media attraction and outreach.

JP KARWACKI

JP Karwacki is the managing editor of the Montréal cultural storytelling magazine The Main and its weekly newsletter The Bulletin. Before that, he was the inaugural editor of Time Out Montréal, and his bylines have appeared in NUVO, the Montréal Gazette, Time Magazine, Eater, and Cult MTL in a variety of roles, from food critic to reporter and guest editor. He's been writing about Montréal's restaurant and bar scene for 15 years as both a journalist and a marketer, and has been a juror for the Digital Publishing Awards since 2023. You can follow him on Instagram at @johnnycrust.