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Indigenous Youth webinar

Indigenous youth are leaders in their communities and have vibrant, powerful voices, but too often they are overlooked or framed only as victims. 

In this time of renewed attention on injustices perpetrated on Indigenous youth and children — past and present — join us to discuss how stories about and involving First Nations, Métis, and Inuit youth should be covered.

Anishinaabe storyteller and podcaster Ryan McMahon moderates a discussion on what the news media needs to do better with panelists Brandi Morin, Riley Yesno, and Kelsie Kilawna.

Indigenous Youth and the Media

Join us for a discussion and Q&A about the intersection of solutions journalism, human rights, and the climate crisis. This event is for professional journalists, journalism students, and media professionals. 

The climate crisis is having a profound impact on all human rights, including the rights to life, self-determination, development, food, health, water and sanitation, and housing. But its effects are not experienced by all people and all places equally. The areas most impacted by the climate crisis are often geopolitically remote and inhabited by Indigenous people, Black people, people of colour, and economically marginalized peoples. 

Three Canadian journalists and human rights experts, 

), will discuss the climate crisis and human rights violations of marginalized communities in Canada. 

Attendees will learn how to use solutions journalism to cover the crisis in a way that gives voice to the communities most at risk. This panel will be hosted by Kimberley Hartwig and Ziya Jones, regional trainers at Journalists for Human Rights. This event is part of JHR’s Strengthening Media in Canada through a Rights-Based Solutions Approach program and is funded by the McConnell Foundation. 

: Jesse Firempong is a columnist for Canada's 

writing about climate justice. A Ghanaian-Canadian freelance writer and communications strategist focused on social and climate justice, she has worked with Greenpeace, Oxfam, and on human rights projects in Canada, Ghana, and Botswana. 

: Steph Kwetásel'wet Wood is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh journalist living and writing in North Vancouver. In 2020, she was nominated for the Emerging Indigenous Journalist award by the Canadian Association of Journalists. She writes stories about Indigenous rights, the arts, sustainability and social justice. 

: Jerome Turner covers national and provincial issues with a focus on Indigenous peoples. Born and raised in the village of Gitanmaax (Old Hazelton, B.C.), he is of Gitxsan and Swedish descent. Turner won the Canadian Association of Journalists' highest honour, the President's Award, for his behind-police-lines coverage of an RCMP raid on Wet'suwet'en land defenders in 2020.

Webinar: Human Rights & Climate Change

Earlier this year, JHR and Indigenous journalists and media organizations from across the country joined hands to form an Indigenous Media Collaborative.  The group consists of both Indigenous journalists and media organizations from across the country. Members include freelancers Brandi Morin and Oscar Baker III, as well as journalists from 

(Steve Bonspiel, Callie Giaccone, Laurence Dubreuil, Marisela Amador), 

Collaborative members have been working to produce a series of solutions journalism and human rights stories about land claims, Indigenous sovereignty and #LandBack, to launch in Fall 2021. In celebration of this launch, collaborative members will get together for this webinar to discuss ways in which Indigenous peoples are fighting for sovereignty and land reclamation, and of what we can learn from communities’ solutions and successes. They will also discuss the experience of taking part in a collaborative journalism project and how it has impacted their reporting.

Webinar: Meet the Indigenous Solutions Collaborative! (#LANDBACK)

On Women’s Day, we take a trip around the globe to hear from women leaders who have creatively pushed against structural barriers to gender equality and changed what is possible for women and other marginalized genders in their communities. 

From Kenya’s Kajiado County, we will be joined by 

whose Greenland School For Girls offers a safe, discrimination-free space for teenage mothers to continue their education. 

is joining us from Kampala, Uganda to talk about her organization Health Journalism Network’s work to train journalists to produce sharp, gender-balanced reporting on science topics. Journalist and women’s rights activist 

will share her years-long journey to document Afghan women’s desires for their lives – an awareness- and community-building initiative that continues to inspire the brave women protesting against the Taliban’s denial of their basic rights today. JHR Executive Director 

Join us on Tuesday, March 8, 11am ET onwards.  

#IWD2022 #WomenInspiringWomen #BreakTheBias 

WOMEN'S DAY WEBINAR: Lessons from the Grassroots

Solutions journalism is rigorous, evidence-based reporting on responses to social problems. But what does this mean for visual journalists? The approach offers visual journalists the opportunity to reimagine how they portray subjects in a more full and nuanced way, while showing 

 they are responding — a core tenet of solutions journalism. In this webinar, panelists will share their insights on how they approach ethical visual storytelling and their work on the frontlines of journalism.

WEBINAR: Photojournalism & Solutions Approaches

This free 60-minute introductory webinar is open to all practicing journalists. During the session you will learn the basics of human rights reporting and solutions journalism, which is rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We’ll discuss how to develop story ideas and use the approach in your reporting in order to create compelling coverage and empower communities to demand positive social change. 

The webinar will be led by JHR trainers Kimberley Hartwig and Sarah Ladik and was organized by 

Kimberley Hartwig lives and works in Saskatoon/Treaty 6. She holds undergraduate degrees in English and French from the University of Saskatchewan and a masters degree in Migration and Intercultural Relations from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. She now works for Journalists for Human Rights in the Solutions Journalism Program and previously worked in JHR’s Indigenous Reporters Program. She strongly believes in the power of storytelling and in bringing diverse voices into the fold.

Sarah Ladik is a settler and former print journalist from north of Montreal on Omàmìwininìwag, Anishinabewaki, and St. Lawrence Iroquoian territory

 with experience in community news across what is now called Canada. She is now an uninvited guest in Kwakwaka'wakw territory. Sarah has worked for JHR in a number of capacities since 2019, and is currently a senior trainer and associate manager with the Solutions Journalism Program. She believes stories can and do change the world, and is always looking for ways to be part of making that happen.

TRAINING: Solutions Journalism & Human Rights Reporting 

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The Covid-19 pandemic revealed systemic injustices of which many were previously unaware. No where were these inequalities more evident than in the health system. However, recognizing these inequalities is not enough. In this webinar, experts will discuss the use of solutions journalism, which is rigorous, evidence-based reporting on responses to social problems, to cover health issues in a way that can serve as a catalyst for change. How can we cover these issues in a way that allows us to build a better and more equitable health system for all? 

Odette Auger is Sagamok Anishnawbek through her mother, and lives on Klahoose, Homalco and Tla’amin territories in the Salish Sea. 

As a journalist she is drawn to sharing stories that are of broad relevance, often communicated best  through specific stories and voices. She is constantly encouraged by the commitment of people doing the research, working in the field, and believes we live in a time in which much hard work and collaboration needs to be done. Odette’s work is informed by a background in public administration and governance, youth programming, education and visual arts. Bylines include: Watershed Sentinel, Windspeaker, La Converse, The Tyee, Asparagus Magazine, IndigiNews and APTN. 

Moira Wyton (Health Reporter, The Tyee) @moirawyton

Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Her coverage focuses on public health measures, substance use and mental health in B.C. With the support of the Local Journalism Initiative, Moira joined The Tyee team only a couple weeks before the first pandemic wave in March 2020 and has played a crucial role in COVID-19 coverage since. 

She previously reported in her hometown with the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun, where she focused on provincial politics and education. Moira received a fellowship from the Jack Webster Foundation to study epidemiology alongside other journalists at McGill University, and the EU-Canada Young Journalist Fellowship for her reporting on the influence of European solutions on B.C.'s current response to the toxic drug crisis.

Tai Huynh is the founding editor-in-chief and publisher of The Local, an online magazine covering urban health and social issues in Toronto. The Local’s brand of local journalism—in-depth, smart, human—takes readers into corners of the city that are too often ignored or misunderstood. Since its founding in 2019, The Local has won two National Magazine Awards and eight Digital Publishing Awards, including the General Excellence grand prize in 2021 and again in 2022.

Andrea Woo is a journalist at The Globe and Mail. Her recent work has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s toxic drug crisis and climate disasters including the heat wave and floods that swept British Columbia in 2021. Andrea’s work has been recognized by the National Newspaper Awards, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the Jack Webster Awards.

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