Myrialine Catule, recipient of the 2025 CJF-IJB Black Investigative Journalism Fellowship, will spend the next six months working on public-interest investigations with the IJB.
“As an emerging journalist, I am proud to take my first step in the investigative field with the Investigative Journalism Bureau,” says Catule, a native Montrealer and recent graduate of Concordia University who joined the IJB team in Toronto this week. “It is an honour to work alongside award-winning reporters who aren’t scared to shed light on public matters, search for the truth, or challenge lawmakers with their discoveries.”
As part of its highly competitive Black Journalism Fellowship Program, the Canadian Journalism Foundation secures early-career placements each year at leading media outlets across the country, including CTV, CBC, the Globe and Mail and the IJB.
The IJB fellowship, which is focused on investigative reporting, was a natural fit for Catule.
In 2023, she co-produced a documentary highlighting the work of a plastic recycling factory in Uganda that creates employment for the community while cleaning the streets of discarded plastic bottles. Over the past few years, Catule’s work has appeared in Montreal’s local newspapers, including The Rover, Nouvelles d’Ici, and The Link.
Catule joins a line of distinguished fellowship graduates.
Wendy-Ann Clarke, the inaugural Black Investigative Journalism Fellow at the IJB, received a National Newspaper Award in the Investigative Reporting Category and the Gold JHR/CAJ Award for Human Rights Reporting this year for her groundbreaking investigation into the troubling backgrounds of therapists approved for a federal First Nations mental health care program.
“At the IJB, the ideas and the ideals of journalism get refined to a razor’s edge,” says Démar Grant, the 2024 CJF/IJB Fellow, now with The Hamilton Spectator. “The standard of care and the standard of journalism is probably the highest that I’ve seen in Canada.”
Grant’s IJB investigation into the Ontario nurses staffing crisis has triggered protests across the province.
Learn more about the fellowship and how to apply: https://cjf-fjc.ca/cjf-black-journalism-fellowship-program/
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