Category Archives: Announcements
Fellowship opportunity aimed at enabling deep, critical reporting on energy issues in sub-Saharan Africa Andrew Mambondiyani, a Power Struggle 2015/2016 fellow, interviews Elijah Ngwarati while reporting in Zimbabwe. The Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship (AEJF) supports reporting that pushes the conversation about energy access and climate change forward. Our first project had a global scope: we selected fellows from around the world to share stories of energy poverty and…
Do you have a story idea you’d like to pitch us? Here’s what we need from you. Click here for a PDF version of this pitch guide. Elements that we look for when deciding to take on a project: 1. Journalism that builds empathy. When done well, this approach to journalism goes beyond simply causing an audience to feel compassion for a voice or character impacted by the issue reported 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…
Canadian Journalism Foundation recognizes innovative collaboration and data work on Moving Forward project Discourse Media co-founder and CEO Erin Millar, director of business development Debbie Douez and academic collaborator George Poulos. TORONTO, ONT. — Discourse Media is the winner of the 2016 Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) Innovation Award for our work on Moving Forward! The win was announced at the CJF awards gala in Toronto, Ont. on June 16, 2016. Discourse Media’s…
VANCOUVER, BC – This week, Discourse Media launched Power Struggle, a collaborative journalism project that asks how energy poverty impacts communities around the world. It investigates emerging solutions that consider climate change. And it demonstrates what’s possible when journalists, media outlets and non-profits work together to critically investigate complex global challenges through a solutions lens. Discourse Media collaborated with nine international reporting fellows to investigate how energy poverty affects people…
Recognition from CJF highlights the rise of collaborative data reporting VANCOUVER, BC — We’re excited to announce that Discourse Media’s project Moving Forward has been shortlisted for the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s 2016 CJF Innovation Award for advancing the quality of journalism at a time of unprecedented challenges and demands for change. Discourse Media is nominated alongside finalists CBC North and The Globe and Mail. Moving Forward is a crowdfunded, collaborative journalism project that…
*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…
We’re thrilled to share that Moving Forward, our data-journalism project about transportation in Metro Vancouver, is a finalist for the international data journalism awards awarded by Global Editors Network! The awards celebrate work in the field of data journalism in media worldwide. They reward examples of data-driven investigations, applications, visualizations and storytelling, which cover matters relevant to society and aim to have an impact at a societal level. With nearly 500 submissions, Moving Forward was…
