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Robert Steiner
Director, Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism
Dalla Lana School of Public Health Sciences
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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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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...
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Danielle Bochove
Danielle is a cross-platform beat reporter with Bloomberg News in Toronto. Before joining Bloomberg she worked as a television/radio anchor for CBC News, hosted her own business show on Canada’s Business News Network, and spent seven years with Reuters in Chicago, Tokyo, and London. She majored in International Relations at the University of Toronto, and studied journalism at Ryerson University.
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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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Mary Lou Finlay
Mary Lou Finlay is an award-winning Canadian writer and broadcaster with more than 35 years experience in reporting, documentary production and voice-over; also in producing, writing and hosting radio and television current affairs programmes, including Live It Up at CTV and Take 30, Finlay and Company, and the award-winning Journal, Sunday Morning and As It Happens programmes at CBC. She has an undergraduate degree in English and French literature from...
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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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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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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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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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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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David Weisz
David is a Toronto-based journalist specializing in data-driven reporting. He currently works as the in-house data journalist at Zolo, having previously worked for the Toronto Star, QP Briefing and Global News, among others. David is also the founder of Data Driven, Canada’s largest symposium dedicated solely to data journalism.
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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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Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb is an investigative and foreign affairs 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 and public-health threats. Cribb is recipient of both the Massey Journalism Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy Reporting. He is past president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, current president of Canadian journalism charity Veritas...
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Sarah Martin
Sarah hosts and produces the podcast Home Cooked. She is a seasoned international radio reporter, producer & documentarian. Sarah worked in Mumbai (CBC), Paris (IHT, NPR, BBC, CBC, CBS), Prague (RFE/RL) and Hanoi (Voice of Vietnam). Prior to her independent podcast series, she worked as a staff producer at As it Happens.