For us, community-based media, what it appears like for us is, once more, an Indigenous-led newsroom by Indigenous journalists—nuance and context you possibly can’t discover wherever else, even in mainstream media.
“Simply because a narrative is new to you, it’s not new to the group.”
And one instance is we’ve got a political reporter right here in DC and she or he went to a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs listening to. And the New York Instances, a White Home correspondent—or possibly simply The Hill correspondent—went as much as her and stated, “Oh, I learn all of your tales, as a result of typically I don’t know what I’m listening to, I acquired to get context for tales.”
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And I used to be like, “Wow, that’s unimaginable to know that even these legacy media, they don’t know, proper?” And in order that’s the place we are available in and fill the gaps, [which is a] story for an additional time. And simply because for mainstream [journalists]— and even for the newsroom trainings I do for the Indigenous Journalists Affiliation—I all the time inform these newsrooms that simply because a narrative is new to you, it’s not new to the group.
And I feel that’s why we push Indigenous journalists to be in these newsrooms is as a result of they know the problems which are necessary to their communities. And that may push the needle ahead as an alternative of explaining the story time and again.”