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Saskatoon StarPhoenix criminal justice reporter Bre McAdam and reporter Matt Olson have been nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award for their work on the She’s Gone podcast.
The six-episode series, which explored the stories of four Saskatchewan women who were victims of violent crime, is nominated in the “Broadcast News” category. The podcast was reported by McAdam and produced by Olson.
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“When you look at the statistics, the rates of domestic violence involving women, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and femicide in Saskatchewan are pretty concerning for our small province. The cases I detail in She’s Gone those of Karina Wolfe, Carol King, Brittney Gargol, Dorothy Woods while unique in their own ways, also highlight this larger issue,” McAdam said when the podcast
From its top-notch speakers and fascinating topics of discussion to studentsâ enthusiastic reception, Hebrew Academy High Schoolâs first-ever Media Literacy Week was a tremendous success.
âMedia literacy âis the ability to identify different types of media and understand the messages they re sendingâ, from traditional media, like newspapers and TV, to the media of today, which includes social media, memes, and viral videos,â said Head Librarian Zehava Cohn, who organized the event with librarian Andrea Whaba. âWe graduate students to whom we ve taught the fundamentals of Torah, math, science, history, and languages, but we also teach our students how to navigate the world in which they live. Media literacy is an important â I would say, crucial â aspect of this knowledge acquisition because our students are involved in, interacting with, and will inevitably work in a media-literate world.â
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