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Hi everyone, my name is Max Leighton. I\u2019m a ComDev student from Canada\u2019s Yukon Territory. On a map, you\u2019ll find me just below the Arctic Circle (although it\u2019s still a 14 hour drive north of me!), just next to Alaska.<\/p>\n

At 37, I have been a journalist for most of my adult life.<\/p>\n

I began my career with the Whitehorse Star daily newspaper. Back then I was a general assignment reporter covering everything from territorial politics to northern environmental science and Indigenous self-government.<\/p>\n

Since 2013, I have mostly worked for the CBC. I started working in current affairs radio production while living in Toronto. I have also worked with CBC in Iqaluit in Canada\u2019s eastern arctic, as well as my home region of Kitchener-Waterloo.<\/p>\n

I was once the guy who wrote the scrolling ticker at the bottom of Winnipeg\u2019s morning TV news show. I also worked a stint as a dis\/misinformation trainer for the NGO Journalists for Human Rights, where I trained reporters across Canada to help identify misinformation. One of my favourite non-reporter jobs was doing legal outreach work in rural Southern Ontario in a mobile legal clinic we called the \u201cLaw Van.\u201d<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago I returned to the Yukon for a job working in communications for the Carcross\/Tagish First Nation, a self-governing First Nation in the Southern Lakes region of the Yukon. Now I am back at CBC working as a current affairs radio producer in charge of three daily radio shows.<\/p>\n

I am a student of communications for development because I believe that communications and journalism are skill sets that can be put to use working for social, economic, and political justice.<\/p>\n

When I am not working, I am hanging out with my kid and my wife, or doing activities on the land like fly fishing, harvesting edible plants, and hunting. I am a huge music lover who listens to a lot of old soul, blues, and American roots music.<\/p>\n

With this blog, I plan to explore my interest in the intersection of technology and journalism and communications, especially where those themes crossover with development, human rights, and justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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