Funding engaged journalism

Episode 4 May 20, 2025 00:17:14
Funding engaged journalism
Re-engaging: Exploring new ways of doing journalism
Funding engaged journalism

May 20 2025 | 00:17:14

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Show Notes

As you've heard throughout this podcast, journalism is facing a lot of challenges. But sometimes, the biggest one comes down to dollars and cents. 

In this episode, journalism professor Meg Wilcox sits down with a panel of media makers and discusses the financial roadblocks they face and how they continue to tackle and overcome them. From giving up their own salaries to going on the hunt for grants, Ana Sofía Hibon, André Goulet, Gaëlle Engelberts discuss how they fight to fund their community engaged journalism.

This series is a collaboration between the Community Podcast Initiative at Mount Royal University and J-Source.

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