CACTUS puts a call out for 10 journalists

OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Community Television Stations and Users has posted openings for 10 journalists, spread across the country.Under the Local Journalism Initiative announced by the Department of Canadian Heritage, CACTUS is one of the administrative organizations chosen by the department to deploy journalists to media organizations in underserved communities. CACTUS represents non-profit community-owned television station.“The role of the journalists to be hired is to produce civic journalism, defined as reportage about the activities of the country’s civic institutions (for example, courthouses, city halls, band councils, school boards, federal Parliament or provincial legislatures) or subjects of public importance...