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WIJA 2012 Calling for Entries

Deadline: Dec. 31, 2011

WITBN's new initiative, the WITBN Indigenous Journalism Awards, WIJA, honours excellence in television journalism that demonstrates superior journalistic skills in a form and manner best representing Indigenous storytelling. WIJA especially acknowledges the significance of journalism that best delivers the Indigenous perspective and contributes to leverage the public understanding of the Indigenous reality nationally and internationally.

Submit your stories now and share the perspective with the world!

Welcome to WITBN!

The World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network (WITBN) is a global alliance which aims to unify television broadcasters worldwide to retain and grow Indigenous languages and cultures.

CONGRATULATIONS TO FNX
WITBN congratulates First Nations Experience, the first Native American channel in the United States.

WITBC '12
The third World Indigenous Television Broadcasting Conference (WITBC '12) will be hosted by NRK Sápmi in Norway in March 2012. For more information, go to WITBC.

For more information about WITBN or to submit your news or event listing, email: info@witbn.org.

WITBN Update

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New WITBC '12 Web Site Whole New Indigenous Insight WITBN Welcomes New Members

OUTLOOK

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NEWSLETTER

  • TITV: Standing Still, Side by Side with Allies
    TITV: Standing Still, Side by Side with Allies One day in mid-June, I walked into the KVCR-TV building in San Bernardino, California, U.S., with Jim Mather, chief executive of Māori Television in New Zealand. We had only just gotten in to Los Angeles late the previous night after an international media conference in Guadalajara, Mexico. Read more...
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  • APTN: World's First Indigenous National Broadcaster
    APTN: World's First Indigenous National Broadcaster Aboriginal Peoples in Canada were invisible to almost all Canadians until APTN went to air on September 1, 1999. Before that date, the only opportunities for Canadians to see Aboriginal Peoples, who consist of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples, were only on newscasts when they were the news item. Often, that was for the wrong reason: a protest, a conflict, a major breakdown in relations. Read more...
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  • Māori Television: Restructuring for the Future
    Māori Television: Restructuring for the Future As Indigenous broadcasters, we have to contend with a multitude of challenges on a daily basis. With our respective Indigenous languages and practices under constant pressure from the majority cultures, we need to stay relevant and actively compete for the attention of our own people and others in a world of numerous options. Read more...
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  • NRK Sápmi: Telling Our Part of the Story
    NRK Sápmi: Telling Our Part of the Story The Sámi Broadcasters are developed in a varied degree in the four countries inhabited by the Sámi people. In Russia it is non-existing, while in Norway, Sweden, and Finland it is organized under the national broadcasters and of varied size. Read more...
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  • NITV: The Old and the New
    NITV: The Old and the New July 21, 2011, marked the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan, the media guru who, amongst many other things, coined two famous expressions: “the medium is the message” and “the global village”. Read more...
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