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Tag: GISF

  • Indigenous fellows shine in culminating projects

    Fellows in JHR’s Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship conclude their six-month placement at APTN with a final project that brings together everything they’ve learned through the program. JHR is proud to present the final projects of the fellowship’s first cohort, Angela Belleau and Veronica Blackhawk, and second cohort, Ryan Cunningham, Rose Jacobs and Julia Ross. Angela

  • Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship: Meet the latest cohort

    JHR is thrilled to welcome the second cohort of fellows in the 2025 Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship! Jointly developed with the Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA) and APTN News, with support from the Google News Initiative, this program equips First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people to pursue careers in journalism in what is currently known as

  • Veronica Blackhawk and Angela Belleau share their GISF fellowship journeys with APTN

    JHR’s Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship (GISF) fellows, Veronica Blackhawk and Angela Belleau, were recently interviewed by APTN News about their experiences as emerging journalists and the powerful projects they produced in their time in the newsroom. Veronica contributed to more than 25 stories for APTN’s daily news programs and created a five-part series titled Face

  • Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship: Meet the first cohort

    JHR is excited to announce the first three fellows in the Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship, a new initiative launched in partnership with the Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA) and APTN News, with support from the Google News Initiative. The program helps create more channels for Indigenous people to pursue careers in journalism in what is currently

  • Journalists for Human Rights blog post

    À embaucher: boursiers en journalisme, Programme pour le développement des conteur·euse·s autochtones

    TITRE DE POSTE: boursier en journalisme [6 postes] TYPE DE POSTE: temps plein, temporaire, contrat durée de 6 mois, janvier-juin 2025 OU juillet-décembre 2025 LIEU DE TRAVAIL: Travailler en personne à Winnipeg, Halifax, Montréal, Ottawa, Vancouver, ou Whitehorse; vous devrez avoir le droit de travailler au Canada. SALAIRE: Base de 35 heures par semaine [possibilité

  • New program Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship featured on CBC North Radio 1

    On October 15, the Growing Indigenous Storytellers Fellowship (GISF) – JHR’s newly launched program in partnership with the Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA) and APTN News, funded by the Google News Initiative – was featured on CBC North Radio 1.  On the morning show Qulliq with Teresa Qiatsuq, our partner Francine Compton (Associate Director at IJA)