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    Better understanding of indigenous issues needed in Canadian newsrooms says CBC’s Jody Porter

    By LEAH HANSEN Special to the RJRC Students crowded into the Venn last week for CBC journalist Jody Porter’s talk on how indigenous issues are covered in Canadian media. “Stories about indigenous people in this country rarely satisfy editors unless the main character is dead, drunk or drumming,” said Porter, who is based in Thunder Bay. “I’m not sure the newsrooms in this country are prepared to spend the necessary resources to get at the stories that Canadians have yet to hear from Indigenous peoples in this country.” Porter’s presentation, which was organized by the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre, focused on the four central components…