As thousands of terrified people packed up their belongings last week after an evacuation order in Yellowknife, N.W.T., local news site Cabin Radio was providing line-by-line, minute-by-minute updates on where to go and what to expect.
Ollie Williams, a former BBC sports reporter, wrote many of those lines from inside a pickup truck on which sat a satellite dish held steady by heavy bags of dog food. He was fleeing, too.
Cabin Radio has become a lifeline for people in the Northwest Territories who need immediate and accurate information as raging wildfires threaten their homes and communities. In local Facebook groups, people post screenshots of Cabin Radio articles, or copy and paste the text. Meta is blocking Canadian news content to protest federal policy, and the Cabin Radio team encourages the workarounds.
Williams founded Cabin Radio with four other people — Andrew Goodwin, Scott Letkeman, Sarah Pruys and Jesse Wheeler — to fill what they perceived as a hole in the media coverage of the Northwest Territories, he said. It seemed to him an interesting challenge to build an outlet that brought the speed and production value of the BBC's coverage to a small community.
Rene Roy agrees. He's the editor-in-chief of the Wreckhouse Weekly, a small local paper in Port aux Basques, N.L., a town of about 3,500 people on Newfoundland's southwest tip. Last year, as post-tropical storm Fiona bore down on his community, Roy snapped a photo of a blue house dangling over the edge of the ocean. The picture was published in news outlets as far away as Kuala Lumpur, he said, showing the world how changing weather patterns upended lives in a far-away town.
"Nobody can quite duplicate what they do," she said in an interview."They are where people turn — to their local radio station, to their local paper — for solid information in times of crisis." First Nations University launched a program last year specifically aimed at training community journalists who can continue this work, she said.
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