People

Robert Cribb, Founder & Director

Robert Cribb is founder and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau. He has received national and international reporting awards 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 Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation in 2017. Cribb is founder of the National Student Investigative Reporting Network, past president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, the first international board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and co-author of Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter’s Research Guide (Oxford University Press). Cribb is recipient of both the Massey Journalism Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy Reporting. He teaches investigative reporting at the University of Toronto. rcribb@ijbureau.org

Blair Bigham, Senior Editor

Blair Bigham is an award-winning journalist, scientist and physician who trained in emergency and critical care medicine at McMaster and Stanford Universities. He was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Associate Scientist at St Michael’s Hospital before joining the faculty of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, newscasts, podcasts and medical journals. He is co-host of the CMAJ Podcast.

As an education scientist, his academic program uses contemporary approaches to understand how clinicians can be taught to build trust and communicate effectively with the communities they serve.

He witnesses the relationship between wealth and health on a daily basis, and reports on the undertold stories of patients, healthcare providers, and the systems that help or fail them. bbigham@ijbureau.org

Wendy-Ann Clarke, Reporter

Wendy-Ann Clarke is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Toronto. She is known for her investigative reporting on healthcare injustices impacting the most vulnerable. Her work focuses on exposing systemic gaps and holding public institutions accountable. A former track-and-field athlete and coach, Clarke previously a senior reporter at CBC Sports, covering major sporting events such as the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, in addition to reporting for outlets like The Catholic Register and the Toronto Star. wclarke@ijbureau.org

Masih Khalatbari, Reporter

Masih Khalatbari is an award-winning, Persian-Canadian investigative reporter based in Toronto. His work spans print, podcasting and documentary film, including in-depth exposés on human smuggling operations on the Canadian border, deception in the drug trial industry, and the federal government’s concealment of a toxic spill in drinking water. His research interests include national security, organized crime, environmental health risks and drug safety. mkhalatbari@ijbureau.org

Lori Culbert, Senior Reporter, Postmedia Fellow

Lori Culbert is a senior reporter who has spent most of her career at the Vancouver Sun, but has also worked at six other Canadian newspapers including the National Post, Hamilton Spectator and Toronto Star. She has been nominated for several awards, including the Michener Award for public service journalism for stories about the preventable overdose death of a university student; dire outcomes for teens aging out of foster care; the covered-up death of a foster child; and Missing Women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She has also been nominated for a number of National Newspaper Awards and B.C. Webster Awards. She can be reached at lculbert@postmedia.com.

Anna Mehler Paperny, Senior Reporter

Anna Mehler Paperny is an award-winning journalist based in Toronto. Her bestselling book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. She’s chased stories ranging from incarceration to migration, from post-quake Haiti to Guantanamo Bay. Her work on deaths in Canadian prisons won an RTDNA Dan McArthur Award for investigative journalism. Reach her at amehlerpaperny@ijbureau.org.

Emma Jarratt, Reporter

Emma is Toronto-based investigative journalist and has worked at the national levels in both print and television in Canada. Her work has triggered real-world impact and won awards, but, most importantly, it has driven powerful public discussions on under-reported issues and issues of vital public interest across many different sectors and industries. Her investigations have probed Canada’s controversial surrogacy laws, medical malpractice, workplace abuses and exploitation of vulnerable populations. Emma has reported from around the world including covering the early adoption of EVs in Norway to the Syrian civil war. Emma can be reached at ejarratt@ijbureau.com.

Stacey Kuznetsova, Reporter

Stacey Kuznetsova is a Toronto-based multimedia journalist focused on human rights, public policy, and healthcare reporting. She is in her final year of the bachelor of fine arts honours program at York University in Cinema and Media Arts with an emphasis on documentary filmmaking. Stacey used to serve as News Editor at Excalibur Publications – the York University community newspaper, reporting on institutional accountability and campus investigations. Stacey can be reached at skuznetsova@ijbureau.org.

Jenna Olsen, Reporter

Jenna Olsen is a journalist and photographer from Guelph, Ontario. She is in her fourth year of the bachelor of journalism honours program at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a minor in international development at Dalhousie University. Jenna is the editor-in-chief of the Dalhousie Gazette and previously served as the paper’s news editor. She is passionate about telling multimedia, community-based stories and reporting on freedom of information requests. Jenna can be reached at jolsen@ijbureau.org

Myrialine Catule, Reporter

Myrialine Catule is a multimedia reporter based in Toronto and Montreal. She is currently interning with the Investigative Journalism Bureau as a recipient of the CJF-IJB Black Journalism Fellowship. Previously, she worked with local Montreal newspapers, including The Rover, Nouvelles d’Ici, and The Link, mostly reporting on social injustice and community-based stories. Myrialine can be reached at myrialinecatule@gmail.com.

Fatima Faruq, Epidemiology Researcher

Fatima Faruq is a Master of Public Health student in the Social and Behavioural Health Sciences stream at DLSPH. She is especially interested in race-based data collection and how it can be used to uncover systemic gaps in care and inform more equitable health policy. With experience in grassroots advocacy, municipal and provincial politics, and community organizing, she is drawn to work that examines lived experiences, bridges community and institutional priorities, and supports more people-centered and accountable health systems.

Lance Roller, DLSPH Journalism and Health Impact Fellow

Lance Roller is a researcher, data analyst and Dalla Lana School of Public Health Journalism and Health Impact fellow. Throughout his career, he has co-written numerous publications in academic journals that include The Lancet and the BMJ. His proficiency in analytics allows him to skillfully handle databases for investigator and industry-led projects, using Python, SQL and Tableau. Through his analytical expertise and tech savvy, Lance is poised to make an impact in investigative journalism.

Neil Seeman, Senior Academic Advisor

Founder and Chairman of Riwi Corp., and Senior Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.