Media Girlfriends

Media Girlfriends

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Media Girlfriends episodes

  • Nicole Amarteifio created An African City as a defense mechanism

    NICOLE AMARTEIFIO

    A Ghanaian-American, Nicole Amarteifio had a successful career in international development working on African government policies. She shifted gears and created a web series featuring young African returnees. It hit a million views within the first several weeks of its release. Hollywood wants her now, and she has a movie coming out.

    www.anafricancity.tv

    www.twitter.com/anafricancity

    Photo by Mantse Aryeequaye of accradotaltradio.com.

     

    WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID 

    Nneka Elliott is last season’s TV news reporter who quit CP24 (Toronto) and started her own lifestyle show for the Caribbean diaspora. She talks about one thing she regrets from her old life in TV.

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    30 min
  • Rachel Giese Says It's Not Always Talent That Rises
    Rachel Giese is a writer and editor-at-large Chatelaine magazine who guest hosts on CBC Radio shows like Day 6 and q. She also has an upcoming book on boyhood and masculinity. We talk about her book, who gets hired in Canadian media and how some of the industry's decision-makers think. Reference for this episode: Robert Jago on his work at The Walrus: https://twitter.com/rjjago/status/868201063912013827 On cultural appropriation: https://thewalrus.ca/on-cultural-appropriation-canadians-are-hypocrites/ Thread where Robert Jago explains that Jon Kay (of The Walrus) asked him to write the piece before Jon Kay quit https://twitter.com/rjjago/status/865339033068687360

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Garvia Bailey Interviewed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Like A Boss
    It's the first Media Girlfriends check-in conversation. Host and producer Garvia Bailey talks about why she was in tears before interviewing novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Nana aba whines about moving house and the first few weeks of her new job. Keep up with Garvia on twitter @garveyschild.

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    28 min
  • Sajae Elder Just Realized She's A Podcast Producer
    Digital content producer Sajae Elder is co-host of Gyalcast, a podcast hosted by a crew of black women from Toronto who make space for honest conversation and a perspective they haven't seen anywhere else. Sajae talks about Gyalcast's organic origin and how she didn't quite realize her work on the podcast makes her its producer.

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    24 min
  • BONUS EPISODE: Hadiya Roderique Made Herself White On OkCupid
    Hadiya Roderique is a lawyer, Walrus-Massey fellow and host on the Canadaland Commons podcast. She wasn't getting the same hits as her white girlfriends on OkCupid so she experimented with her profile picture to see what would happen. She wrote about the results for Walrus magazine.

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    38 min
  • Hannah Sung Talks About Race A Lot
    Hannah Sung is a video producer and co-creator of Colour Code, The Globe and Mail's podcast about race, with Denise Balkissoon. It was named one of iTunes' best podcasts of 2016. Hannah talks about the pressure of working on the podcast, being 'the Asian VJ', and the appropriateness of the yellow-face emoji.

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    44 min

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Media Girlfriends is a podcast that gives you a behind the scenes look at women who work in media. We talk accomplishments, impostor feelings, making money, intersectionality and sometimes even…