MEDIA INDIGENA 186
Added 2019-11-25 22:33:02 +0000 UTCOn this week’s Indigenous roundtable: panning pan-Northernism. “What was CBC North management thinking?” A question fresh on the mind of CBC audiences and CBC staff this week, shocked and dismayed at the decision to combine three territorial morning newscasts into one. A decision that proved short-lived, however: even before the ink was dry, CBC brass buckled under the backlash and reversed course.
In this discussion, host/producer Rick Harp is joined by Ken Williams, assistant professor with the University of Alberta’s department of drama, as well as Candis Callison, Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism, as they try to parse out the ‘logic’ behind the move, what it tells us about how well CBC gets the north, as well as what it would take—and who—to make things right going forward.
LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:
- "Staff 'incredibly angry' as CBC North merges morning newscasts": Cabin Radio
- "Staff 'blindsided' by CBC North move to centralize morning newscasts": CBC North
- "CBC boss says newscast merger will mean more community reporting": Cabin Radio
- "CBC reverses decision to merge northern newscasts": Cabin Radio
- "'That was a mistake': CBC North scraps plan to consolidate morning newscasts": CBC North
- "Workforce analysis observations - Radio-Canada" (overall diversity data): CBC [to download it directly, click here]
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