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…
In the Fall of 2015, we put out a global call for applications for the Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship, a collaborative journalism project with the Waterloo Global Science Initiative that investigates the drivers of energy poverty around the world and potential solutions. We were looking for journalists eager to report on how different countries are grappling with energy poverty and the ability to produce stories deeply rooted in people’s…
*Republished from: The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Credit: AJ Batac, Flickr Earlier this Fall, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) announced Erin Millar, co-founder of Discourse Media, as the inaugural recipient of the new Bob Carty Free Expression Fellowship. CJFE’s support gives our team at Discourse Media the resources to pursue an important project we’re calling the Diversity Source Network and Methodology. Our aim? To help break down barriers…
The past few weeks have been laden with stalemate televised debates and numerous candidates getting kicked off of campaigns for social media faux-pas. In what little debate there has been about larger issues affecting Canada’s future, young people have been routinely left out of the conversation. The youth voter turnout rate is notoriously low and little has been done by any of the political parties to reverse the dire numbers…
