LJI Journalist Vicki Hogarth who is the News Director at CHCO Television in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee medal in recognition of her outstanding COVID-19 coverage for New Brunswick during the pandemic as well as for her dedication to providing local content to the underserved area of Southwest New Brunswick.
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, the Honourable Brenda Murphy, and Member of the Legislative Assembly for St. Croix, Kathy Bockus, awarded Hogarth her medal at a ceremony in St. Stephen at the Garcelon Civic Centre. Hogarth was selected to receive the medal by MLA Bockus who awarded 25 medals in total to deserving citizens from her riding.
Hogarth has been with CHCO Television for five years and has been an LJI journalist sponsored by CACTUS Media and the Government of Canada for three years.
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LJI Impact is the section of commediaportal.ca where the journalists and their organizations participating in CACTUS' Local Journalism Initiative can share their greatest successes.
Through the written stories, photos and videos you see in the LJI Impact section, you'll be able to read first hand accounts about how the presence of a community journalist is making a difference in communities across Canada through the Local Journalism Initiative and the Community Media Portal.
The Community Media Portal is a gateway to the audio-visual media created by community media centres across Canada. These include traditional community TV and radio stations, as well as online and new media production centres.
Community media are not-for-profit production hubs owned and operated by the communities they serve, established both to provide local content and reflection for their communities, as well as media training and access for ordinary citizens to the latest tools of media production, whether traditional TV and radio, social and online media, virtual reality, augmented reality or video games.
The Community Media Portal has been funded by the Local Journalism Initiative (the LJI) of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and administered by the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) in association with the Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec (the Fédération). Under the LJI, over 100 journalists have been placed in underserved communities and asked to produce civic content that underpins Canadian democratic life.
