Today on Stateside, a new initiative called the Mishigamiing Journalism Project has created six month long fellowships for Indigenous journalists at the Traverse City Record Eagle. Plus, a conversation with two Michiganders about dealing with family separation along the Canadian border. And should masks be mandatory throughout the state?
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Should masks be mandatory? Rochelle Riley thinks so.
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Stateside’s conversation with Rochelle Riley
- Rochelle Riley is Detroit's director of Arts and Culture and former columnist with Detroit Free Press.
Families and neighbors in forced separation between Michigan/Ontario during COVID
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Stateside’s conversation with Amy Miller and Anne Stevanovich
- Amy Miller is a former WDET producer whose family has long-owned property on Lake Erie in Ontario.
- Anne Stevanovich is a Canadian citizen who lives in Michigan. Her elderly mother is in Windsor.
Michigan media is missing the perspective of Indigenous journalists. A new project hopes to change that.
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Stateside’s conversation with sierra Clark, Meghan Goopta, and Kaye LaFond
- Sierra Clark is Odawa-Ojibwe, and a reporter with the Mishigamiing Project
- Meghanlata Gupta is Ojibwe from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, founder of Indiggnizing the News.
- Kaye LaFond is a data journalist and Report for America fellow at the Record Eagle
