A journalism program for northerners, by northerners in the N.W.T.

With the launch of NJTI, CBC published our initiative details and call for applicants for our March 27-April 21, 2023, training, and interviewed Louie Goose (Advisory Committee) and Kaila Jefferd-Moore (Project Director).

Many southern journalists come to the North to cut their teeth in the news business. Some later move on to larger centres and larger roles in the industry, while others stay and make their lives in the North. What happens less frequently is northerners finding their way into journalism to report on and cover their own land, drawing on their own experiences of growing up northern. Now several current and former journalists — some northern by birth, some by choice — head up a program to help increase northern representation in journalism in the Northwest Territories.

- CBC North, February 10, 2023

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