August 19, 2024

Sarah Smellie, freelance journalist, has highlighted #MissusMonday, MUNFLA's social media campaign to identify the first name of women contributors who were previously identified only by some variation of their husband's name. Read the article titled "Do you know this missus? Newfoundland folklore archive hopes to give women their due: 'Missus Monday' tries to identify women who contributed remedies, recipes and more", on the web from CBC News NL, The Globe and Mail, or from The Canadian Press.

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June 4, 2024

Wayne Jones of Newfoundland Boy podcast spoke with Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivist, about her career as an archivist, the history of MUNFLA, our mandate, the professional decision making process around accepting or denying donations, discussion on some of the interesting collections you can find at the archive, and publications or projects that have come from our archival collections. Listen to Episode 9 Tons a Stuff, My Dear: An Archive of Newfoundland Culture and Language here.

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March 23, 2024

Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivist, of Memorial University's Folklore and Language Archive, and Nik Sexton, skateboarder and film maker, talk about the significance of the 1990s St. John's skateboarding scene on CBC's Weekend AM program with Heather Barrett. Click here to listen online.

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March 21, 2024

Paranormal NL (podcast) talked with Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivist, on various topics of Newfoundland folklore including, The Hag, evil Fairies, old weird remedies, surnames of NL, audio oral history recordings, contemporary urban legends, cultural traditions, and more. Click here to listen to the podcast online.

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January 14, 2024

Caroline Hillier with CBC Atlantic Voice visited MUNFLA to speak with Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivist, about the Newfoundland and Labrador accent and dialect. Listen to the podcast entitled "Is Newfoundland and Labrador English dying? No b'y, but it is changing".