Click here to watch a video of the December 3 presentation.


From ryakuga.org (1992) to ethicaljournalism.ca (2020)



Problem 1: 1987 - Bern Bromley's Northern Pen wins awards as the best
community newspaper in Atlantic Canada. Newfoundlanders received information
from a myriad of locally owned newspaper and radio stations.

2021 - Most local media have closed - the remainder are owned by
foreign corporate media - Saltwire and Scorpion.



Problem 2: The Political Deskilling of Rural NL Communities (Roger Epp).



Problem 3: Regionalization = Amalgamation = Resettlement.



Click here to watch a YouTube of Say No to Resettlement (1996).



Possible solution 1 - Principles of participatory media

Link to the YouTube.

Together We Can Do This: A Work in Progress. Building the Seventh Wave
of Participatory Development Support Communications
for the Sustainability of Rural NL Communities.

Link to the project proposal.


Stranger in a Strange Land.



Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.

Watch the Moses Coady NFB film.

A conversation with with Calvin White.

Thematic influences:

1. 12,000 years of indigenous wisdom - Mi'Kmaq



2. Open systems theory - Australia



3. Antigonish movement - kitchen meetings/university of the air



Possible solution 2 - challenge co-opted language - participation, people

Fieldworker's Guide - spectrum of community intervention

Possible solution 3 - partners, together we can do this, our project

Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador Annual Meeting, November, 2021







Flat Bay Vision Community Radio Special Event





IWA