Monthly Archives: March 2016
Roundhouse Radio interview tackles decolonizing media, creating new narratives in journalism VANCOUVER, BC — What are the options for journalists in a changing media landscape? While traditional business models supporting public interest journalism are in decline, there is a growing need for better reporting on complex issues. On March 11, 2016, Minelle Mahtani, host of Sense of Place on Vancouver’s Roundhouse Radio, spoke with Discourse Media’s co-founder and CEO Erin Millar about how Discourse…
Focusing on strength and solutions translates to more nuanced coverage and challenges negative stereotypes VANCOUVER, B.C. – “DEAR MEDIA, I AM MORE THAN JUST VIOLENCE,” writes Billy-Ray Belcourt on his personal blog. Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation, a student at the University of Alberta and President of the Aboriginal Student Council. He calls for journalists to do a better job at representing Indigenous people, following a damaging experience he…
What is the best way to measure the impact of our collaboration with Maclean’s that probed high rates of Indigenous incarceration? VANCOUVER, B.C. – As a journalist, when I start digging into a complex story, I’m bolstered by the idea of impact. When this thing breaks, how will people react? Whose perspective will be broadened? What policies might change? I hope for a ripple and fantasize about a tidal wave. But how…
