disability

Journalists must change with the times when covering disability issues, advocates urge

Feb. 21, 2018 By RHIANNA JACKSON-KELSO Special to the RJRC News coverage of people with disabilities tends to rely on tired clichés that present them as “tragic but brave,” the “supercrip” or the “object of charity,” says a leading disability activist. Ing Wong-Ward, associate director of Toronto’s Centre for Independent Living, urged able-bodied journalists to abandon the practice of writing…

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Updated rules for language, terms for marginalized communities being discussed for new edition of Canadian Press Stylebook

By ALLISON RIDGWAY and ANIA BESSONOV Staff Reporters The Canadian Press (CP) is discussing how to update its stylebook to reflect changing language surrounding LGBTQ, Indigenous and disabled communities, CP’s editor-in-chief said during a Ryerson Journalism Research Centre panel earlier this month. But the national news agency must keep its clients and readers in mind when contemplating such changes, said…

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