{"id":57840,"date":"2021-08-23T08:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T12:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=57840"},"modified":"2021-08-24T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:01:58","slug":"jen-st-denis-looking-back-at-one-year-covering-the-downtown-eastside-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/jen-st-denis-looking-back-at-one-year-covering-the-downtown-eastside-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen St Denis: Looking back at one year covering the Downtown Eastside beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jen St. Denis is now a staff reporter with <a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Tyee<\/a>, an online, independent publication focusing on B.C. One year ago, St. Denis was hired by The Tyee as a beat reporter, covering Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Eastside. Funding for the new position was provided through Heritage Canada\u2019s Local Journalism Initiative, the same program that funds The Pulse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 10px; height: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>One year in, and Jen St. Denis reflects on her time as the DTES beat reporter. She mentions her experience as a reporter covering Vancouver City Hall, \u201c...and as part of that City Hall coverage...all reporters in Vancouver cover the Downtown Eastside because it's such an important neighborhood in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 10px; height: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Since people in the neighbourhood have for decades been exploited, and stigmatized, it came as a surprise to St. Denis when she introduced herself as a new beat reporter, \u201c...[W]hat I found was that there was actually...a huge belief in in the power of journalism, which you actually don't see in the wider public.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 10px; height: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>After the first round of LJI funding came to an end, she joined The Tyee as a staff reporter and continues to cover the DTES beat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 10px; height: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>You can follow Jen St. Denis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenstDen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JenStDen<\/a>, and read her stories at <a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Bios\/Jen_St__Denis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Tyee<\/a>..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen St. Denis is now a staff reporter with The Tyee, an online, independent publication focusing on B.C. One year ago, St. Denis was hired by The Tyee as a beat reporter, covering Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Eastside. Funding for the new position was provided through Heritage Canada\u2019s Local Journalism Initiative, the same program that funds The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":17856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[7915,678,1410,4569,8966],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57840"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=57840"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=57840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}