Call for Content: ‘Olympic Footprint’
Protest against the Olympics in Vancouver. Criticisms of the Olympic Games continue, but most Canadians still feel they are beneficial. Where do you stand? Credit: thedarkerside.to CC2.0
In our last newsletter we included a call for content for ‘Olympic Footprint’, a new dossier planned for end of January/beginning of February. We’re excited by all the great ideas that have come in so far, but we have room for more, so we’re extending the deadline to Friday, January 22nd.
We’re looking for your photos, videos, audio pieces and articles about the impact of the Olympics, both over the next month, but also over the medium and long term. We’re also able to offer small stipends to original, unpublished material.
Read on for more details about the dossier and how to submit pitches. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at
info@citizenshift.org
CALL FOR CONTENT
>> Olympic Footprint
The 2010 Vancouver Olympics will be one of the largest international events in Canadian history. It will be subject to some of the most intense media coverage imaginable: television stations plan on broadcasting the games 22 hours per day, and thousands of journalists from around the world will cover the event.
The Olympics have also become highly controversial and contested. Residents of Vancouver, Whistler and surrounding areas, Indigenous communities of Coast Salish Territories, and people from coast to coast have been criticizing the event’s impact on land rights, the environment, housing, social services and civil liberties. All this seems in contradiction to the Olympics’ mission of friendly
competition and promoting peace and good relations between countries.
Olympic Footprint is CITIZENShift’s call for media on how you see the Olympics: Does the goodwill it’s meant to foster outweigh local
criticism? What kind of ‘footprints’ (environmental, economic, social, etc) are the Vancouver games leaving on that city and what
kinds of ‘footprints’ have past Olympics left on other hosting cities?
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Category : Seeking Submissions
Tags: 2010, dossier, Olympics, Vancouver
