Indigenous Media Engagement


This team is focused on how Indigenous media makers articulate Indigenous concerns to multiple publics through diverse media forms. They will develop a quantitative and qualitative analysis of current practices in Indigenous-focused media initiatives. It considers how Indigenous media makers might inform and enhance best practices for the dissemination of Indigenous scholarship to broader audiences without diminishing necessary historical and cultural contexts.

The team has partnered with Indigenous media makers to develop recommendations for more accurate and culturally informed media practices and will design and facilitate media training to share these practices. 

Research Team

Industry Partner

Candis Callison PhD

Associate Profesor

School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, and Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia

Daniel Justice PhD

Professor

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture, University of British Columbia

Rick Harp

Founder/President of the INDIGENA Creative Group

Producer and host of the MEDIA INDIGENA podcast.

Theme news

Behind the Bylines: Featuring Our Research Leads

Behind the Bylines: Featuring Our Research Leads

By: Zachary Andrade Mary Lynn Young Mary-Lynn Young, PhD, is a lead researcher and professor at the University of British …
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Indigenous journalisms explored by MEDIA INDIGENA podcast series

By Megavarshini G. Somasundaram A new way to delve into Indigenous journalisms was explored by project partner MEDIA INDIGENA, in …
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Callison and Tworek named Canada Research Chairs

Two members of the Global Journalism Innovation Lab team, Candis Callison and Heidi Tworek, have been appointed as Canada Research …

Industry Partner Podcast

An Indigenous-owned and operated current affairs podcast, MEDIA INDIGENA also features First Peoples’ news, views and creative expression. MEDIA INDIGENA has been partnered with the Global Journalism Innovation Lab since 2022.

Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 1 (ep 366) MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

On this episode, the formal kick-off to our extended series, Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes, beginning with the first half of a panel recorded last October before a live audience in the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. The opening, public component of a 3-day gathering of journalists, scholars and others focused on Indigenous narratives of climate change, the panel assembled four seasoned storytellers embodying decades of experience, a wide-ranging conversation which served as a microcosm of the overall event—co-convened by MI host/producer Rick Harp and Candis Callison, UBC Professor and long-time MI roundtabler. ** GRATITUDE ** Special thanks to Mitiana Arbon, Pacific Curator at MOA—one of BFF's four core sponsors, alongside the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the Global Journalism Innovation Lab, and the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. // CREDITS: Our intro/extro theme is 'nesting' by birocratic.
  1. Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 1 (ep 366)
  2. Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 0 (ep 365)
  3. Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 5 (ep 364)
  4. Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 4 (ep 363)
  5. Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 3 (ep 362)
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