Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal PeopleDespite setbacks and cutbacks, Canada leads the world in northern and Aboriginal communications. This book provides a comprehensive survey of communications in the circumpolar region, focusing on the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic but also looking at the circumpolar North (Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, and the Nordic/Saami nations). Radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and web sites are all covered. As technologies and access improve, Aboriginal people are increasingly taking control of their own representation and consolidating their presence in northern media. Alia concludes that Canada will maintain its leadership in northern communications in the years ahead, given the topic's far-reaching importance and international context. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Portrayals of the North | 13 |
Language Literacy Politics and Education | 36 |
3 The Evolution of Communications in the North | 60 |
Networking Broadcasting and Accessing the Future | 97 |
5 Communications in Yukon | 122 |
6 Print Media Coverage Up Here and Outside | 140 |
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Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Aboriginal broadcasting Aboriginal journalists Alaska Alberta Alia Amagoalik Association British Columbia Canada Canadian North CBC Northern Service CHON-FM circumpolar Community radio Council coverage Cree CRTC cultural Dene eastern Arctic English federal film Friendship Centre funding Globe and Mail Greenland Gwich'in headline included indigenous Inlet Internet Inuit Broadcasting Corporation Inuktitut Inuvialuit Inuvialuktun Inuvik Iqaluit issues journalism Labrador language literacy magazine mainstream Métis Monthly Nanook Nations Native Broadcasting Yukon Native Communications Society Newsletter NNBY NNNC Non-native northern Aboriginal northern communications northern media Northern Native Broadcasting northern Quebec Northern Tutchone Northwest Territories NorthwesTel Nunatsiaq Nunavik Nunavut Ontario Ottawa Pelly Crossing PJNP political Press Independent print media produced projects provinces published radio stations region reporter Sámi Saskatchewan satellite South Slavey southern story Television Northern Canada tion Toronto TVNC weekly Western Whitehorse Star Yellowknife Yukon College