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In this episode, we talk with Michelle Lynch, president of the Canadian Association of Black Journalists (CABJ). Michelle is also Coordinator of Volunteer Services for Rogers TV – York Region.
From she was eight years old, Michelle wanted to get involved in the media. She went to Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario for journalism. It was not what she expected. So after her first year she changed her program to French and attended York University in Toronto. After graduating from York University, she left the media world for a few years. While working for a large sporting goods company, she started blogging when blogging was not as big thing. Blogging allowed her to she reacquire with her love of media and she has been involved with the media since (3 years at CBC – in the area of Business Affairs and Audience Communications and the last 6 ½ years at Rogers as as Volunteer Supervisor – York Region).
During out interview which was recorded in late December 2010, Michelle talks about and shares about various subjects including practicing doing newscasts from she was very young (Oprah was her first influence), how she got involved in journalism and became President of CABJ, the state of Black journalism in Canada, how Blacks can get involved in journalism and the digital world’s effect on journalism.
To find out more information about the Canadian Association of Black Journalists, please go to their website at http://cabj.ca/
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