Tag Archives: Rochelle Baker

Education

Why media like the Cortes Island Academy

A tiny education program on Cortes has been getting a lot of media attention lately.

“We were featured on the National Observer with our local journalism initiative reporter, Rochelle Baker.  She did a fabulous piece on this program that was picked up by the Vancouver Sun and then was picked up by some Vancouver radio stations and by the CBC. So as nearby as Cortes Currents and as now far away as the reach of CBC,” explained Manda Aufochs Gillespie, one of the organizers of the Cortes Island Academy.

Continue reading Why media like the Cortes Island Academy →
Animals, Environment

Environmental issues in small Vancouver Island communities

In this edition of the Folk U Radio’s Reporters Roundtable, our journalists talk about environmental issues in some small Vancouver Island communities. 

Continue reading Environmental issues in small Vancouver Island communities →
Rivers & Oceans

Reporter Roundtable: Fish farms and seaweed production

5 Comments

In partnership with Cortes Community Radio & Cortes Currents, Folk U Radio offered its first Reporter Roundtable: Fish farms and seaweed production. 

The panel:

Continue reading Reporter Roundtable: Fish farms and seaweed production →
Arts

2020: Linda Solomon Wood Talks About Cortes Island & Journalism

Many of you probably know Linda Solomon Wood as the Editor-in-Chief of the CANADA’S NATIONAL OBSERVER, but the award winning investigative journalist lived on Cortes Island for five years after 9/11. While she currently lives in Vancouver, Linda returns every summer. I recently had a chance to interview her about her life and why, as the editor of a national publication, she recently hired a reporter to cover Cortes and Quadra Islands. 

Continue reading 2020: Linda Solomon Wood Talks About Cortes Island & Journalism →