Indigenous Reporters Program helping shape new group of storytellers in Northern Ontario

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Journalists for Human Rights started the Indigenous Reporters Program in 2013 and has since trained and mentored about 600 people in Northern Ontario through intensive training programs and workshops

She had never spoken the language before, and carefully pronounces each syllable as it’s broken down by Mr. Johnson in their audio lessons.

In her interviews that run around 10 to 20 minutes, Ms. Nodin and her guests discuss Indigenous matters such as what it means to decolonize health care or tackle negative stereotypes. JHR started the Indigenous Reporters Program in 2013 and has since trained and mentored about 600 people in Northern Ontario through intensive training programs and workshops.

Before the COVID-19 crisis hit, the JHR program involved sending journalism trainers to participating First Nations – oftentimes remote, fly-in communities – for 8 months to work with community members, usually youth, to build media literacy skills and publish or broadcast through local news websites and radio stations.

Zachary Skead, a photographer from Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, captured what pandemic life has been like for his family living in rural Northwestern Ontario inMr. Skead says thanks to the IRP training, he feels a career in photojournalism is now attainable – and something he hopes to pursue. Ms. Pulfer says the media industry is experiencing an awakening following a year of anti-racism movements spurred by the deaths of Black and Indigenous people killed by police in both the United States and Canada.

 

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