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Discourse Media expands with new hires in editorial, business development and marketing

by Erin Millar on

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Discourse Media is excited to announce multiple new hires, including president Ian Gill and managing editor Lindsay Sample. “We’ve enjoyed significant growth this year, our third, despite the troubled Canadian media landscape, and I’m delighted to bring on board new talent and experience that will contribute much to Discourse Media’s continued growth,” says Erin Millar, editor-in-chief and CEO. “Our momentum is attracting smart people who share our…

Journalism and geography: Discourse Media talks changing media space on Sense of Place

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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…

How we’re using new digital storytelling forms for solutions journalism

by Christine McLaren on

For over a year and a half now, Discourse Media co-founder Erin Millar has been chomping at the bit to find a way to document, over time, the journey of a three-year global project called New Pedagogies for Deep Learning, which is aimed at transforming education into something more relevant to the average student’s life. The challenge for us was to figure out how to produce a journalism product that would unfold…