Our Advocacy Work
April 5th, 2014The moment was both painful and telling. As the MC introduced me to the 250 teenagers assembled to engage in a discussion about the importance of media literacy in an […]
read more...When age is a valued credentialOur Advocacy Work
February 6th, 2014“You’re not making the best use of your prime real estate,” Chamika Ailapperuma told us. (Which was news to us: we didn’t even know we HAD real estate!) An experienced […]
read more...Pro Bono Expertise Transforms Digital Real EstateOur Advocacy Work
January 27th, 2014Last month, Informed Opinions’ Project Manager, Claire Bellefeuille published an op ed in the Ottawa Citizen expressing the wish that people would stop telling her daughter, Lily, how beautiful […]
read more...7 Ways to disable gender stereotypes for your daughterOur Advocacy Work
June 16th, 2013For a few years in the 1990s I had the enormous privilege of a regular column in the Vancouver Sun. Every week, I’d write 750 words on pretty much any […]
read more...Of privilege and prostitutionOur Advocacy Work
July 6th, 2012Don’t take my word for it… On the retrograde troll front, I defer to hip hop DJ and vlogger, Jay Smooth, who recently weighed in on the classic, cautionary Internet story […]
read more...Deferring to Jay Smooth on trollsMaster Media Engagement
June 4th, 2012What kinds of experts do journalists turn to most often? Last week in an effort to answer that question, Informed Opinions emailed several hundred editors, producers, hosts, columnists and reporters. […]
read more...What academic disciplines are most in-demand by journalists?Improve your Writing
April 23rd, 2012“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine.” “Tap-dancing child abuser. That’s what The Sunday New York Times […]
read more...Opening lines – make ’em workOur Advocacy Work
April 16th, 2012Readers often overlook the byline of a story indicating the writer’s name, and although reading an article without knowing who wrote it will still leave you informed, when it […]
read more...Calgary Herald Editorial Page Analysis – More Women’s Opinions NeededOur Advocacy Work
November 28th, 2011My mother grew up a Secord near Niagara-on-the-Lake, so I pay attention when someone slags my famous ancestor, and the story makes headlines. When it happened last week I took […]
read more...On Laura Secord, long skirts and women’s historyImprove your Writing
July 6th, 2011Scholars accustomed to sharing evidence-based analysis grounded in research and purporting to be fact sometimes express discomfort with the idea of expressing the kind of strong opinion favoured by op […]
read more...Commentary advice for scholars from Terry Milewski