LOCATION: Alma Van Dusen and Peter Kaye Room, Subground. Check-in opens 30 minutes before the session starts.

Part of the Women Deliver Satellite Sessions , presented by the City of Vancouver.

In this session, Vancouver's women journalists will examine how the stories of our world are (or are not) shaped by gendered and diverse perspectives. You'll leave this session with a better understanding of what stories get told in your world and why, and what the future of shaping our stories might be.

PARTICIPANTS:

HOST - KATHRYN GRETSINGER

Kathryn Gretsinger is the lead instructor in the School’s Integrated Journalism program. She also contributes to the International Reporting program and the Reporting in Indigenous Communities course. She also runs the School’s Internship program.

Kathryn’s career in journalism began in the late 80s when she joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Canada’s public broadcaster. Kathryn is committed to public service journalism and she has worked to develop her journalistic skills to reflect the technological change in the industry. She works across platforms, but her first love is audio. Her documentaries, programs and interviews have been recognized locally and nationally. She frequently guest hosts radio programs at CBC and continues to work with reporters, producers and editors to train journalists in audio storytelling techniques.

Kathryn’s commitment to the industry is reflected in her approach to the internship program. She has helped to place students in professional practicums across the country and around the world.

SARANAZ BARFOUROUSH

Saranaz Barforoush is a sessional lecturer at the UBC School of Journalism. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2017 with her dissertation, “The Dictator & The Charmer: U.S News Media Coverage of Chinese and Iranian Leaders.” Her research interests include foreign affairs, international reporting ethics, political communication, implications of new media technology on foreign news reporting, immigrant, and framing studies. Previously, Dr. Barforoush earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran and worked as a reporter and translator for more than a decade in Tehran, where she reported on various subjects such as women’s issues, arts, culture and technology. She completed a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies and Media from the University of Tehran in 2008, where she studied the social effects in popular Iranian cinema before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution. After moving to the United States in 2011, she earned a Master of Science degree from Southern Illinois University in 2011, where she wrote a thesis on the news production of Persian television channels broadcast from Britain and the United States.

ERIN MILLAR

Erin Millar is the founder and CEO of The Discourse, where she's reimagining the community newspaper to better represent all of us. Under her leadership, The Discourse has become an award-winning, international innovator creating a new business model for journalism — an industry in massive transition. Millar was a Bob Carty Fellow with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, a solutions journalism fellow with Ashoka Canada and an AMEX Emerging Social Innovator. Previously she worked for The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Reader’s Digest, The Walrus, The Times of London and other publications. She is a published author and former journalism instructor at Quest University and Langara College.

CHARMAINE DE SILVA

Charmaine de Silva is not your typical newsroom boss. A brown-skinned lesbian millennial, Charmaine has spent her career challenging norms in media - and now enjoys blurring the lines between her roles as a journalist and advocate.

As News Director of NEWS 1130, Charmaine leads one of Canada's largest local newsrooms. Prior to that, she was Assistant News Director and a senior investigative reporter at CKNW and spent several years anchoring the news at CBC Radio One across British Columbia. She has won multiple National Radio Television Digital News Association awards - most recently for helping shed light on serious flaws in the family justice system.

Charmaine is also a passionate community leader, who serves as Co-Chair of the Vancouver Pride Society. She has been so proud to work with an organization dedicated to creating safe and inclusive events for Vancouver's LGBTQ2+ community. And just this past year, she joined a Rainbow Refugee fundraising circle - working to bring a mother and her three children to Canada from Central Africa.

Charmaine's favourite thing to do with her valuable spare time is to share it with her family. She can often be found roaming the West End with her wife and children. Coffee, wine and cheese help her tackle the challenges of parenting a teenager and a toddler.

ANGELA STERRITT

Angela Sterritt is an award-winning journalist, writer, and artist from British Columbia. Sterritt has worked as a journalist for close to twenty years and has been with the CBC since 2003. Her reports have appeared in the Globe and Mail, The National, CBC’s The Current, and various other national and local news programs. She currently works with CBC Vancouver as television, radio and online reporter. She is a proud member of the Gitxsan Nation.

In the fall of 2017, Sterritt launched “Reconcile This,” a CBC column that explores the tensions between Indigenous people and institutions in British Columbia. Almost immediately the column had a significant impact, leading to policy changes and wracking up multiple awards including an international Gabriel award. A column comparing the Ministry of Child and Family Development’s advertisements of children in care to those ads from the Sixties Scoop compelled MCFD to remove them. In another, a publisher removed a book being used in the B.C. school system after it was alleged that is caused harm after parents called it racist. More recently ‘Reconcile This’ uncovered MCFD social worker’s failure to connect to Indigenous communities while giving the optics of doing so via an MCFD “Form A” which led to the ministry to look at major policy shifts within.

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