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

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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.

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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.

Storytelling on stolen land: Indigenous eyes on Canadian politics, Pt 2 (ep 359) MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

On this episode: the back half of the all-Indigenous panel MI host/producer Rick Harp moderated at “Reimagining Political Journalism: Perils, Possibilities & What Comes Next”—convened last November by Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa—in which the audience joins in with their thoughts and questions for our all-star panelists: Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia Veldon Coburn, faculty chair of McGill University’s Indigenous Relations Initiative and assistant professor at the Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Ottawa Brett Forester, a reporter and broadcaster with CBC Indigenous in Ottawa Pam Palmater, podcaster, professor and chair of Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University Niigaan Sinclair, media commentator, Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics at University of Manitoba’s Department of Indigenous Studies CREDITS: Our intro/extro theme is 'nesting' by birocratic; 'relaxed days,' by snoozy beat (CC BY).
  1. Storytelling on stolen land: Indigenous eyes on Canadian politics, Pt 2 (ep 359)
  2. Storytelling on stolen land: Indigenous eyes on Canadian politics, Pt 1 (ep 358)
  3. Political Pontifications: Part 3 (ep 357)
  4. Political Pontifications: Part 2 (ep 356)
  5. Political Pontifications: Part 1 (ep 355)
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