Value and Values in the Interstices of Journalism and Journalism Studies: An Interview with Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young

Rick Harp; Candis Callison; Mary Lynn Young

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11514

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Rick Harp INDIGENA Creative Group
Rick Harp is the Winnipeg based host, creator, and producer of the weekly podcast, MEDIA INDIGENA. He is a citizen of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in what’s now known as Northern Saskatchewan. While pursuing his BA as a student of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, he got bit hard by the radio bug at the campus and community station, CKCU-FM. Thus begat a twenty-plus-year career in broadcast media, including national and regional stints at CBC Radio, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), and NCI-FM. A former Artistic/Managing Director of the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, he is a co-founder and president of the INDIGENA Creative Group (MI’s parent company).
Candis Callison School of Journalism, Writing, and Media & Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-3574
Candis Callison, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, jointly appointed in the School of Journalism, Writing and Media and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014) and the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford University Press, 2020). She is a citizen of the Tahltan Nation (an Indigenous people located in what is now known as Northern British Columbia), a former journalist, and a regular contributor to the podcast, MEDIA INDIGENA.
Mary Lynn Young Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia
Mary Lynn Young, PhD, is a Professor, co-founder and board member of The Conversation Canada, a recently launched national non-profit journalism organization, and affiliate of The Conversation global network. She has held a number of academic administrative positions at UBC, including Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts (2011-2016), Director of the UBC School of Journalism (2008-2011), and Acting Director (June-December 2007). A former journalist, she is co-author with Candis Callison of Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford, 2020).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11514

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Indigenous Media, Journalism, Organizational Structure, Values

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In this interview, Professor Candis Callison and Professor Mary Lynn Young, along with MEDIA INDIGENA podcast creator Rick Harp, provide a deep and sometimes personal set of insights as to why the field of journalism studies came to function the way it did and why that field so often falls short in its analysis of issues related to race, indigeneity, gender, and colonialism. Both Callison and Young highlight the arguments they make in their recent book, Reckoning: Journalism's Limits and Possibilities, about the role and practice of journalism as it relates to methods, ideals, aspirations, social order, and ethics. They conclude with a discussione of the theoretical and epistemological frameworks that undergird their analyses in the book, and address the tensions between value and values in the news.

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