Spotlight: Child Welfare
@childspotlight
A collaborative project bringing journalists, youth, parents and advocates together to improve media coverage of the so-called “child welfare” system
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05-03-2019 23:16:15
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Had an amazing first workshop from Spotlight: Child Welfare today hearing from folks who have been through Canada’s child welfare system about media’s role in reporting on the system. Main takeaway: journalists need to do more to protect and support our sources
Register now for the last workshop in our #childwelfare reporting series. On Feb 15, lawyers Jessica Saunders & Maegen Giltrow will speak to landmark cases, media coverage & how Indigenous communities are reclaiming jurisdiction The Continuing Legal Education Society of BC Canadian Association of Journalists Indigenous Journalists Association eventbrite.ca/e/the-legal-la…
We just added another deeply principled journalist to our Jan. 31 panel on #childwelfare reporting — Anna Mary Mckenzie (formerly w/ IndigiNews) will join Melissa Ridgen (Globalnews.ca) and Kenneth Jackson (APTN News). Can't wait. eventbrite.ca/e/journalists-…
"Child welfare isn't necessarily the problem, it's the symptom of the problem," First Nations children's advocate Cindy Blackstock tells journalists at Spotlight: Child Welfare workshop. She's referring to inequalities like poverty, trauma, lack of safe housing and lack of safe water supply.
Jan 31 — #cdnmedia can learn from journalists with deep experience investigating #childwelfare systems in the place colonially-known as Canada. This free workshop is part of a series organized by Spotlight: Child Welfare (a collab journalism project) ... eventbrite.ca/e/journalists-…
2/ In 2022, Anna Mary Mckenzie won the national CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism CJF-FJC for this IndigiNews story about how the BC govt internally dubbed #birthalerts as "illegal and unconstitutional" months before banning the practice indiginews.com/news/birth-ale…
Anna Mary Mckenzie CJF-FJC IndigiNews 3/ Melissa Ridgen (Globalnews.ca, formerly APTN News) won a 2021 National Native Media Award Indigenous Journalists Association for her #childwelfare reporting. See her work here: aptnnews.ca/child-welfare-…
Anna Mary Mckenzie CJF-FJC IndigiNews Globalnews.ca APTN News Indigenous Journalists Association 3/ Our third panelist, Kenneth Jackson won a Michener Award Prix Michener Award in 2021 for his "dogged and thorough" investigation of northern Ontario's #childwelfare system ... aptnnews.ca/ourstories/dea…
How did Michener-winning journalist Kenneth Jackson investigate a #childwelfare system “shrouded in secrecy"? How can non-Indigenous journalists be of service to Indigenous youth, families and media peers? Learn from our expert panel at 10am PT. Register: eventbrite.com/reports?eid=77…