The Northern Journalism Training Initiative, established to help NWT residents access the world of journalism and broadcasting, has run out of funding and will close next month. NJTI was formed after a group of northern and Indigenous media workers gathered in 2020 to create an organization that would “empower northern people to tell northern stories.”By 2023, the initiative was delivering its first four-week intensive program to an all-Indigenous class of prospective storytellers in Inuvik. A second four-week program ran in Hay River last year, offering workshops with journalists alongside classroom based and on-location training. Now, Jefferd-Moore says NJTI’s mission will need to live on in the people who participated in its programming – and in newsrooms like CBC North and Cabin Radio. She described asking newsroom editors if they would be inclined to hire northerners graduating from a four-week NJTI program over southerners with a four-year journalism degree.

Source: CBC News January 25, 2026 01:35 UTC