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Robert Cribb
Founder & Director - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Instructor - Investigative Reporting
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Shelley Robertson
Bureau Chief
Instructor - Clean Writing
Fellowship in Global Journalism
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Robert Steiner
Director, Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism
Dalla Lana School of Public Health Sciences
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Robert Steiner
Robert Steiner is Director of the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. The Fellowship is the first journalism program designed specifically to teach outstanding specialists with graduate degrees or professional experience in a field how to cover their own disciplines as freelance reporters for media around the world. Mr. Steiner began his career as a global finance correspondent for...
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Naheed Mustafa
Naheed Mustafa is an award-winning producer, writer and broadcaster. She began her career as a freelance reporter when she moved to Pakistan, where she worked for both local English language media as well as newspapers back home in Canada. After returning to Canada in the mid-90s, Naheed began working as a writer and researcher for documentary films and for publications in the early days of the internet. In 2000, Naheed...
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Radiyah Chowdhury
Radiyah Chowdhury is a multidisciplinary journalist and poet who’s worked in a range of mediums, from radio to television to print. Born and raised in Scarborough, she completed her journalism degree at Carleton University in 2016. Since then, she’s worked at various organizations from CBC, TVO, The Discourse, Canadaland, and spent time in Washington, D.C. interning at National Public Radio. She currently serves as assistant editor at Chatelaine and is...
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Colin MacKenzie
Colin MacKenzie teaches in the fellowship in global journalism program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He began his career in journalism in Ottawa and has held senior positions at a variety of major Canadian publications. He was managing editor, editor of the Report on Business and a Washington correspondent for the Globe and Mail. At the Toronto Star his roles included business editor, national editor and foreign editor. MacKenzie...
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Royson James
Royson states his positions with passion and pulls no punches when he senses injustice or foot-dragging from civic and government officials. A fearless advocate for the underdog and dispossessed, he regularly goes to bat for youth, the poor and the less fortunate. Royson is a native of Jamaica and attended Cornwall College before immigrating to Canada in 1969. He attended Harbord Collegiate in downtown Toronto and had his journalistic training at...
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Brett Popplewell
Brett Popplewell’s reporting has taken him from the rubble of an earthquake in Haiti, to the site of a plane crash in Russia, a chess tournament in Iceland, and to the base of Mount Everest. He has written for The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Sportsnet, Maclean’s, The Walrus, and more. His work has also appeared in The Best American Sports Writing, and has been made into documentaries and produced for broadcast. His first book, the memoir of a...
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Dan Misener
Dan Misener is a radio producer and technology columnist with CBC. He produces the national technology and culture program Spark, and he’s heard weekly on 19 local afternoon radio shows across Canada. He also hosts the award-winning live event and podcast series Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids, and teaches audio production in Ryerson’s RTA School of Media.
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Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb is founder and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau and an investigative reporter at the Toronto Star. He has received national reporting awards and citations for investigations into offshore tax evasion, child exploitation, human trafficking, dangerous doctors, environmental threats and public safety. He was part of the international reporting team that produced the Pultizer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation in 2017. Cribb is founder of the National Student Investigative Reporting...
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Richard Lautens
Richard Lautens has been a photojournalist at the Toronto Star since 1987. He began his career there as a summer student while studying history and political science at the University of Toronto, and working as a freelance news photographer. In his career he has covered news and events all over the world including politics, fashion, sports, civil strife, and features. His work has taken him to every province and territory in Canada,...
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Shelley Robertson
Shelley Robertson is a writer, editor, journalism teacher, and print junkie. She worked as a reporter at the Winnipeg Free Press, as a story editor for CBC radio and television in Toronto, and at The Toronto Star, where she was a copy editor, assistant national editor, entertainment editor, and finally editor of the Life, Food, Fashion, and Home sections. She later was a partner in the desktop publishing firm Inprint Editorial Services,...
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Samantha Levine-Finley
Samantha Levine-Finley spent more than 12 years as a professional journalist covering national politics, homeland security, human interest stories, and breaking news for several leading print publications in the Washington, DC, area, including US News & World Report, The Houston Chronicle, Kiplinger’s, and Congressional Quarterly. Samantha has also been published in Marie Claire magazine, The Washington Post Express, the Washington City Paper, and several large U.S. newspapers, including The Palm...
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Shanita Hubbard
Shanita Hubbard is the Chair of the Freelance Task Force for the National Association of Black Journalists. She is passionate about amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. Her passion for amplifying typically muted voices stems from a personal understanding of how families of color are disproportionally impacted by mass incarceration. This passion has been translated into action in the form of a justice-centered career and education. After receiving a MSCJ,...
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David Weisz
David Weisz is a data journalist and educator passionate about storytelling, spreadsheets and pandas (both furry and Python varieties). When he’s not teaching, David explores new ways to collaborate on data-driven storytelling as a co-founder and director of Humber College’s StoryLab.
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Bernard Simon
Bernard Simon has worked as a reporter and editor in Canada and South Africa. He was the Financial Times’ Canada correspondent for 17 years, also covering the North American auto industry. He was joint managing editor of Canada’s Financial Post from 1987 to 1990, and deputy editor of Business Day in Johannesburg from 1997 to 2001. He has also been a regular correspondent for The New York Times, The Economist, and US News & World Report, among others. Bernard...
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David Common
David Common is the Host of World Report, CBC Radio’s flagship national morning newscast. He is also a CBC News Correspondent, currently based in Toronto, but previously stationed in New York, Paris, London, and locations throughout Canada. David has travelled extensively to more than fifty countries, covering wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and natural disasters in Haiti, Japan, the United States, and Canada. He has been awarded a Gemini for Best...