MUNFLA in the Media

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.


 March 23, 2024

Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivists, 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.


 March 21, 2024

Paranormal NL (podcast) talked with Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivists, 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.


 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".