People
Staff

Robert Cribb, Founder & Director
Robert Cribb is founder and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau and an investigative reporter at the Toronto Star. 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, current president of Canadian journalism charity Veritas – Advancing Journalism in the Public Interest and is 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 Ryerson University’s School of Journalism and the University of Toronto. robert.cribb@utoronto.ca

Declan Keogh, Senior Reporter & Partnership Coordinator
Declan Keogh is an award-winning investigative reporter. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including CBC, Global News, the National Observer, NOW Magazine and the Toronto Star. He is also a gold-medal graduate of the Ryerson School of Journalism. Before becoming a journalist, he built houses and travelled the world playing music in a DIY punk band. declan.keogh@utoronto.ca

Robert Steiner, Assistant Professor and Director of Fellowship in Global Journalism, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Robert Steiner began his career as a global finance correspondent for The Wall Street Journal with postings in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, won two Overseas Press Club awards and the Inter-American Press Association Award. After leaving The Wall Street Journal Steiner received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business, at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked as a business strategy executive, first at The Boston Consulting Group and later as Group Vice President in charge of Strategic Planning for Bell Globemedia, parent of the Globe and Mail and CTV. From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Steiner served as Assistant Vice President of the University of Toronto in charge of Strategic Communications. He lives in Toronto with his wife, daughter and son.

Charlie Buckley, Reporter
Charlie Buckley is an investigative journalist who specializes in data reporting and audio production. He is based in Toronto and has worked with the IJB since its founding in 2020. His accolades include awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists, Ryerson School of Journalism and Ryerson Journalism Course Union, as well as nominations for the CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism and Michener Award for Public Service Journalism.

Denise Haggerty, Journalism Fellowship Administrator
Denise Haggerty is the Journalism Fellowship Administrator for the Fellowship in Global Journalism and the Certificate in Health Impact at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Denise has fulfilled this administrative role since the fall of 2018. Prior to joining U of T, Denise worked for six years as the Administrative Co-ordinator at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes. When Denise is not busy managing the administrative aspects of Dalla Lana’s journalism programs, she can be found drinking coffee, occasionally writing, listening to audiobooks, watching mysteries and spending time in nature.

Naama Weingarten, Reporter
Naama Weingarten is a third-year student at the Ryerson School of Journalism. Prior to joining the IJB, she conducted investigations for outlets like Vice and CBC and coordinated the morning newscast for her university radio station, CJRU 1280AM.

Masih Khalatbari, Reporter
Masih Khalatbari is a Toronto-based multimedia reporter and a fourth-year student at the Ryerson School of Journalism. In radio, he has worked as a crime reporter for Radio Regent and produced a book review talk show at CJRU 1280AM. In video, he was an editor and videographer for Mum’s the Word, an award-winning interactive documentary. He co-founded Burnout Digital, an online publication based in Toronto, and is a senior reporter at Investigative Chronicles, a publication dedicated to chronicling the 1987 murder of a high school freshman.

Max Binks-Collier, Reporter
Max Binks-Collier is an award-winning journalist based in Toronto. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, the Toronto Star, and Healthy Debate, among other outlets.

Owen Thompson
Owen Thompson is a fourth-year media studies student with a specialization in journalism at the University of Guelph-Humber. He is the substantial editor and contributing writer for the U of GH Emerge Magazine.

Mariyah Salhia
Mariyah Salhia is a third-year student at the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Journalism, and a freelance journalist. Her work can be found in The Eyeopener, the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, where she worked on the Inside L6P project.

Thea Gribilas
Thea Gribilas is an award-winning journalist and third-year student at the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Journalism. Before the IJB, she worked as a news editor at The Eyeopener, Ryerson’s independent student newspaper, where she wrote breaking news, conducted investigations and managed a team of volunteers.
Academic and Scientific Consultants

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.

Dan Werb, Scientific Lead
Director, Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation; Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health, University of California San Diego; Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto;
Academic and Editorial Advisory Board

Rebecca Coombes
Head of News and Views, The British Medical Journal (London, UK)

Erica Di Ruggiero
Director, Centre for Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Iris Fischer
Partner, Lawyer, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Toronto)

Will Fitzgibbon
Senior ICIJ Reporter, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (Washington, DC)

Kathryn Gretsinger
Associate Professor of Teaching, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia

Karl Kabasele
Professor; Family and Public Health Doctor (specialty in addictions), Clinical Public Health Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Angela Mashford-Pringle
Associate Director of the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health; Director, Collaborative Specialization in Indigenous Health; and Indigenous Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Lynn McAuley
Former Associate Editor, The Toronto Star (Ottawa)

David McKie
Deputy Managing Editor, Canada’s National Observer; Journalism Instructor, Carleton University, University of King’s College and Ryerson University

Ron Nixon
Global Investigations Editor, The Associated Press (Washington, D.C.)

Julian Sher
Senior Investigative Journalist, Author, former Senior Producer of CBC’s The Fifth Estate. (Montreal)

Ross Upshur
Division Head, Professor, Clinical Public Health Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
IJB Business Advisory Board
John Honderich, Honorary Board Member (1946-2022)
Former publisher of the Toronto Star and honorary IJB board member
Gerry Gotfrit
IJB co-chairman
Katherine Lee
Former president and CEO of GE Capital Canada; Director of BCE and Colliers International
Peter Aghar
Toronto-based real estate investor, developer and venture capitalist
Andrew Guido
President of ERTH Homes