All Canadian deserve media coverage that's
fair, balanced and accurate, including Canadians

of colour.

That's proven to be difficult.

For many years, racialized Canadians have
highlighted insensitive media coverage of

their communities and systemic racism in media
hiring and promotion.

Now, J-School's Canada has a new resource
to help you teach your students about this

important issue.

It's a diversity database on the members-only
webpage of J-Schools Canada to help you augment

your curriculum, making sure students can
learn the full story about Canada's diverse

communities and how to cover them.

J-Schools Canada has also given you the latest
research into diversity in Canadian media.

Turns out there's not much data.

Partly because print and digital publications
are not required by law to gather data on

the racial makeup of their staff.

Ryerson professors Asmaa Malik and Sonya Fatah
summarize the problem and potential solutions

in an article on theconversation.com.

If you want to teach students how to cover
our increasingly diverse country, teaching

them how not to do it can be useful.

Here's an example from the New York Post.

A cartoon shows a police officer who's just
gunned down a chimpanzee.

Now remember, Barak Obama was president at
the time.

The caption reads, "They'll have to find someone
else to write the next stimulus bill".

At first, the Post claimed this cartoon wasn't
racist but they later apologized.

Here's a newspaper cover from this side of
the border.

The Toronto Sun drew criticism for a headline
that was a play on the name of a rapper who

had been shot and killed.

This cover could be used to teach a number
of things including a lesson in sensitivity

toward murder victims.

J-Schools Canada has links to a number of
town halls analyzing racial discrimination,

including this one, from CBC Vancouver.

It's dangerous to speak up.

It's dangerous to talk about it and call it
racism because then sometimes you're no longer

up for promotion.

People exclude you from team meetings, etc.,
so it's really challenging for people to be

in a space like that.

J-Schools Canada has award-winning examples
for you to show your students including work

from the legendary Adrienne Clarkson, the
first racialized network host in Canadian

history.

And we have work from David McKie.

He was part of a team who won the Michener
Award in 2008 for investigating the RCMP's

deadly use of tasers.

And CTV's Maya Johnson caught up with a man
who survived the deadly mosque shooting in

Quebec City.

All this material and much more is available
for you at J-Schools Canada, including a growing

database of diverse guest lecturers for your
courses.

They can speak on a host of topics including
science, business, courts, sports, arts and

culture and there are also specialists on
the issue of race to teach students how to

cover racialized communities respectfully
and thoroughly.

All of these resources are on the members-only
webpage of J-School's Canada.

Take a look this semster.