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    Join us for a discussion on how fashion journalism can be a tool for social change

    March 20, 2018 - By allisonr

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

    February 21, 2018 - By allisonr

    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 “inspiration porn,” a term coined during a 2012 TED Talk by the late disability rights activist Stella Young. Inspiration porn presents people with visible disabilities as being heartwarming or motivational simply for existing. The results, Wong-Ward said during a Feb.…

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    Panelists: Media needs to give advocates of marginalized communities a voice

    October 3, 2017 - By allisonr

    By AMANDA POPE Staff reporter Mainstream newsrooms need to diversify coverage produced by “male and pale” newsrooms by giving activists the opportunity to write columns and air their opinions, Ryerson University journalism students were told during a recent panel discussion. The Ryerson Journalism Research Centre hosted the panel, “Activist, advocate, reporter, columnist: Where’s the line?” as a follow-up to controversy earlier this year over the extent to which writers for a news organization should become participants in news stories. Desmond Cole, who wrote a freelance column for the Toronto Star, disrupted a Police Services Board meeting in April to protest…

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    How can journalists responsibly report on extremism? Join us for a panel discussion

    September 20, 2017 - By allisonr

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    What role does advocacy play in today’s journalism? Join us for a panel discussion

    September 20, 2017 - By allisonr

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