Blog by John Miller

Let's get it right

June 16th, 2020
How can Canadian news organizations recognize and cure systemic racism? It’s hard work. But it’s work that needs to be done. Prompted by Black Lives Matter protests and fueled by years of empty promises to make themselves more representative of society, some news organizations and schools of journalism are wrestling with demands for change. Some, like the CBC, are hemorrhaging in public, w ...

Call it racism

June 9th, 2020
I spent most of my academic career documenting the lack of racial diversity in Canadian newsrooms, and studying the stereotypical and inaccurate coverage it often helped to produce, particularly when the news involved Muslims, Blacks and Indigenous people. I politely called it “blind spots” or being “out of touch with your community.” It was really something much worse—institutional or syst ...