Author / Shenaz Kermalli
Shenaz Kermalli currently teaches journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University and University of Toronto' School of Continuing Studies, and is a former producer and writer for CBC News, BBC News Online and Al Jazeera English. She is launching a new course, Decolonizing Journalism, at the U of T's School of Continuing Studies in Spring 2024, developed and co-taught by journalists Desmond Cole, Shree Paradkar, Dan David and Lela Savić .
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![This is a picture of the Bethlehem side of the wall that separates the West Bank from Israel. On the wall is a painting of slain journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist who was killed by Israeli soldiers while wearing a blue press jacket and reporting on a raid at a refugee camp in Jenin. In the picture Shireen is seen wearing her blue, press jacket. He brown-blonde hair is straight and shoulder-length. Behind her is a graffiti text that says, Live News Still Alive.]()
Canadian newsrooms are stifling Palestinian perspectives
While individual journalists are speaking out about a culture of suppression affecting coverage of the crisis in Israel and Gaza, journalism organizations are mostly silent -
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A new wave of Islamophobia is coming — and some journalists covering Afghanistan are enabling it
In the wake of U.S. withdrawal, media continue repeating the mistakes used to justify a 20-year-old invasion
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