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Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities

Peter Wall Institute Seminar Room 6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Join us for a book launch and reception featuring Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020), a new book by Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young. How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and when it's done right? What sort of expertise do journalists have, and what…

Free

Prime Ministers, media, and messaging: communicating about COVID-19

How can leaders have democratic conversations during health emergencies? Is media meeting the challenge of reporting on these emergencies, for all communities? And what works better for COVID-19 prevention messaging: 'don't get it' or 'don't spread it'?

Covering COVID: Pandemic reporting in Indigenous contexts

Zoom Video Webinar

Journalists bear the responsibility of disseminating clear, fair and undistorted information. In the face of a global health pandemic, more than ever, we look toward the media as a source of accurate and up-to-date data and information that will keep us safe. Yet mainstream media have repeatedly failed Indigenous people, often spreading misinformation, perpetuating stereotypes,…

Free

Homies Chatting: Diversity in Media

Facebook Live

On our show this Friday, we are joined by Award-Winning journalist Brandi Morin and Associate Professor and Writer Candis Callison to talk about Diversity in Media and Indigenous Media in Canada.

Free

The 2021 Spry Memorial Lecture

Online 12 Constance Street, London, London, United Kingdom

The 2021 Spry Memorial Lecture presents Changing the Spectrum: Race, media and building democracy in Canada.