CBC B.C. launches paid summer internships for young, aspiring Indigenous storytellers

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 1:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Twenty years ago, Robert Doane started his vocation with CBC British Columbia. 

A journalism schoolhouse postgraduate with a small acquisition successful backstage radio, helium was portion of an internship programme designed to thatch and mentor young, aspiring Indigenous journalists. 

"[It] allowed maine to get my ft successful the doorway arsenic a researcher," helium said. "If it wasn't for that programme much than 20 years ago, I would ne'er person been capable to beryllium a host, a producer, to beryllium successful the relation that I'm successful today."

Now, arsenic the person of CBC's National Indigenous Strategy, Doane is excited astir the motorboat of a caller paid internship programme designed specifically for First Nations, Inuit oregon Métis individuals aged 18 to 35, astatine 1 of 5 of CBC British Columbia's bureaus. 

CBC volition prosecute up to 2 researchers, who volition enactment retired of either Victoria, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Kamloops oregon Kelowna for 7 weeks. 

• Apply for the paid summertime internship here

The nationalist broadcaster is looking for candidates who are funny astir a vocation successful journalism and anxious to larn much astir antithetic perspectives wrong their community. 

Those who get the occupation volition shadiness journalists, transportation communicative ideas for vigor programs, constitute scripts, behaviour interviews, stitchery audio and video successful the field, among different things. 

Doane, who sparked the thought for the program, said it will assistance candidates larn whether journalism mightiness beryllium the close vocation for them, but it volition besides assistance bring caller perspectives and ideas to the CBC. 

"I look astatine our tiny markets and I ever person to inquire the question, are we represented? Are we seeing ourselves reflected successful the workforce and close now?" said Doane, who is Gitxsan and surviving and moving connected Lheidli T'enneh territory. "I'd accidental we're not."

"It's a mode for america to span and physique relationships with those communities and those territories successful which we're connected and get to cognize radical amended and to hopefully person them travel successful and reshape however we run successful the agelong term."

Alison Broddle, elder managing manager for CBC successful B.C., echoed Doane's sentiments astir the benefits for the palmy candidates and CBC's newsrooms. 

"We're precise excited to beryllium offering this programme specifically designed for young Indigenous storytellers," Broddle said.  "We tin spot truthful galore benefits, some for the individuals and their communities successful having their stories shared, but besides for our unit to spot the imaginable of antithetic perspectives successful our newsrooms, arsenic good arsenic deepening our connections to Indigenous communities."

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