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Reporting in Indigenous Communities

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Peter Mansbridge, Chief Correspondent - CBC The National
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Jean LaRose, CEO - Aboriginal Peoples' Television Network
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Jamie Monastyrski - Communications - Chiefs of Ontario
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Deneze Nakehk'o, CKLB Radio

On Reconciliation and the Canadian Media

Where are Canadian media at, when it comes to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples? In October 2020, I had a lengthy conversation with Maia Herriot ...
Lessons for news media in Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks

Are there lessons for news media in Indigenous scholar Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks? This blog was written by Sophie Woodrooffe – a fr...
On #TRC #86 & how to get more Indigenous reporters into newsrooms

In late 2015, Erin Sylvester of Ryerson Review of Journalism interviewed me for an article she was writing on the Indigenous Reporters Program from Jo...
On Canadian media coverage of #MMIWG – Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Late in 2014, I had a lengthy conversation with Stefana Fratila, a graduate student in political science at the University of British Columbia, who wa...
VIDEO Seeing Each Other: The role of media & Indigenous voices in reshaping relationships

Why did a Letter to the Editor in a small-town newspaper prompt angry local protest, and cries of ‘Racism’ from across North America &#821...