MEDIA INDIGENA 214 (Patreon)

Media's digital reckoning / MI 214

On this episode: part one of our extended conversation on the limits and possibilities of journalism. And these days, we hear little about the latter, a lot about the former—even before COVID-19 took its toll on the industry. 

Some blame media companies’ downfall on the digital: the interwebs and smartphones shredding the business model of now-obsolete oligopolies. And yet, it’s not all cause for techno-driven doom and gloom. In fact, there are those who believe digital might actually be a doorway to better journalism, especially for audiences legacy outlets have failed  to reach, much less represent. Among the hopeful: Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young, Associate Professors at UBC's School of Journalism, Writing and Media and the co-authors of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities, a book about the media moment we’re living through, a time where crisis and opportunity co-exist.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS DISCUSSION (PARTS I & II):

• Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers University of Manitoba Press

• Correspondent Confidential: VICE Video

• Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Encore +

• Finance, Fossil Fuels, and Climate Change: Networks of Power in Canada Transnational Institute (TNI)

• The Last Archive podcast by Jill Lapore

• The Conversation Canada

• CANADALAND, podcast network about Canadian media, news, current affairs, and politics

• "Torstar paid its top five executives $4,751,652 last year, equivalent to 70% of what it expects from the media bailout" @goldsbie

• How Systems Thinking Can Transform Journalism Journalism + Design

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