Verse City

Verse City is a program aimed at getting racialized and marginalized youth interested in pursuing careers in news media. The program specifically targets youth from Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods who face multiple barriers to education, employment and access to community services. Our goal is to share the tools and skills necessary to participate in the process [...]

Journalism Students + Computer Science Majors = Better News Apps for All

Hey Verse City Guys, (Check out the article below which highlights how new technology is changing the face of journalism.) Students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism are coming up with new and creative ways of  making a journalists job a lot easier by introducing new technological tools that will  not only save them [...]

Changing Scarborough’s violent image

Once nicknamed “Scarlem,” this community finds itself at the forefront of a change. Matthew Gutwillig│April 13, 2009 The media portrayal of Scarborough as a violent-ridden community escalated during the “Year of the Gun” in 2005. Don Gillmor’s 2007 article in Toronto Life, “The Scarborough Curse” put the nail in the coffin for the area by [...]

Student project: Freephone Art Project offers the deported a chance to phone home*

Check out this story in the LA Times regarding a student project. UC San Diego students and artists are organizing the Freephone Art Project in Tijuana, Mexico, says Diane Haithman in the L.A. Times (5/21/09). They’re installing a phone on an outside wall of the student-run Lui Velazquez Gallery, at the Tijuana border, to provide [...]