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19 Apr

Live blog: Women in Digital Journalism

<p>Join a panel of leading Vancouver news media journalists in an engaging discussion on the future of online journalism and women's role in the evolution of media. 1 p.m. PST.</p><p>Panellists: <em>Vancouver Sun</em> deputy managing editor Adrienne Tanner, CBC's Theresa Lalonde, <em>Vancouver Observer</em>'s editor-in-chief Linda Solomon and managing editor Jenny Uechi, public relations specialist Katharine Sawchuk</p><p>Moderator: Sacha DeVoretz </p>

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27 Mar

The challenges of bringing diversity into a newsroom: SAJA panel examines how South Asian stories are covered in Canada

<p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p>

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25 Mar

Is media coverage of B.C. Premier Clark sexist?

<p><strong>By Katie Hyslop, for <a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/03/22/Christy-Clark-Coverage-Sexist/"><em>The Tyee</em></a></strong></p><p>It's no surprise that Premier Christy Clark has been the centre of media attention and criticism in her short tenure in the province's top job. But how much of the criticism is fair comment and how much is sexism against a female premier?</p>

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21 Mar

Recap: SAJA Talk: How are South Asian Stories covered in the Newsroom

<p><strong>Eric Mark Do</strong> live blogged the talk "<a href="http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=13648">South Asian Stories in the Newsroom</a>" for J-Source on Thursday March 21. </p>

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17 Jan

Idle No More and APTN

<p> </p><p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/APTN Idle No more 2.jpg" title="" /><em>An Idle No More candlelight march in Toronto on Jan. 11, 2013. (Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrix_feet/8383820113/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matrix X on Flickr/Creative Commons</a>)</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>By Benjamin Shingler</strong></p>

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30 Nov

Discussion on The Agenda: When it comes to gender representation in media, do we need binders full of women?

<p>When Mitt Romney made his now-infamous “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_LQ3eHSZ9c">binders full of women</a>” comment during the second U.S. Presidential debate back in October, the Internet latched on. As with most viral things these days, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/10/binders-full-of-women-drive-major-twitter-traffic-in-presidential-debate.html">Twitter exploded</a>, <a href="http://bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com/">a tumblr was quickly created</a>, and <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/binders-full-of-women">memes were born</a>.</p>

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6 Sep

In Indigenous reporting, what has changed since Ipperwash?

<p> </p><p><em>“…All in all, the Ipperwash crisis was not journalism’s finest hour.”</em></p><p>                                    — Former Ryerson Journalism professor John Miller</p><p> </p><p><strong>Intro by Romayne Smith Fullerton</strong></p><p>September 6 is the 17<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the death of Dudley George — an unarmed First Nations occupier shot and killed by an OPP officer at Ipperwash Provincial Park in Southwestern Ontario. </p>

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1 May

UBC Indigenous Reporting class examines health and healing in Aboriginal communities

<p><a href="http://www.indigenouscommunities.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/indigenous communities.PNG" title="" /></a></p><p>Duncan McCue and a class of University of British Columbia journalism graduate students have produced eight feature stories that seek to not further perpetuate stereotypes and show that there is more to Aboriginal communities than problem people and discouraging statistics—there are solutions within these communities, too.  </p>

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24 Apr

A quick look at news mediums and international development

<p> </p><p>Newspaper subscriptions may be waning in places where digital technology has been widely adopted and online news is quite literally at your fingertips at all times by means of smartphone technology, but this isn’t the case across the globe.</p>

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4 Apr

Minority report: Taking a closer look at newsroom diversity

<p><em>Journalists report on a colourful world, so why are their newsrooms so blatantly monochrome? News organizations have spoken about the importance of having people from different backgrounds present in the field, yet there is an incredible lack of diversity within the media.</em></p>

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