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IJB Audio Brief: Lead in Drinking Water
Moving forward, we will be releasing short audio briefs explaining the stories we report. They’re meant to be a quick way to learn what we’re working on. We hope that you’ll listen. First up in this new feature is reporter Inori Roy discussing the recent investigation into lead in the drinking water of Ontario schools… Read more
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A third of Ontario schools still have dangerous levels of lead in drinking water – two years after the province pledged to fix it. Search our database to see the results
The most recent data shows one in 10 water quality tests from Ontario schools and daycares found lead levels above Health Canada’s maximum accepted concentration of 5 parts per billion (ppb), a Toronto Star/Investigative Journalism Bureau investigation has found. See the results in our database. Read more
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Collaborator Profile: Ebyan Abdigir
The IJB profiles our collaborators from time to time. Ebyan Abdigir is a multimedia journalist and producer in Toronto. She has worked in all mediums of journalism: community radio, print, digital, broadcast radio, TV and podcasts. Her work has appeared in the CBC, Toronto Star, and more. Ebyan was part of a team that spent… Read more
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Neil Seeman joins IJB as academic advisor
Neil Seeman, founder, Chair and CEO of global trend-tracking and predictive analytics firm RIWI Corp., is joining the Investigative Journalism Bureau as a senior academic advisor. Neil was recently named a Senior Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME). In this senior academic advisor role with the IJB, Seeman will… Read more
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IJB announced as finalist for CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism
The Investigative Journalism Bureau is honoured to be announced as a finalist for one of Canada’s top journalism awards our inaugural series Generation Distress, which looked at North Americas expanding youth mental health crisis. The prestigious CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism honours news organizations that produce exceptional journalism and have a far-reaching and… Read more
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Four Distinguished Young Reporters to Join the Investigative Journalism Bureau for Summer 2021
The Investigative Journalism Bureau is pleased to announce this year’s two Unifor Summer Interns and two IJB interns who will spend four months with the organization working on in-depth journalistic projects with academics and senior journalists. Inori Roy and Danielle Orr will be this year’s Unifor Summer Interns. The Bureau is also pleased to welcome… Read more
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High school reporters contribute to continental investigation into youth mental health crisis
North America’s youth are facing an unprecedented crisis in mental health and COVID-19 has only made it worse. Over the past year, more than two dozen young journalists, including many from the youth-run blog A Teen Perspective, conducted interviews with their peers as part of Generation Distress, an Investigative Journalism Bureau/Toronto Star investigation, to understand… Read more
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Collaborator Profile: Urbi Khan
Urbi Khan is a reporter at the Toronto Star and a 2020 graduate of the Ryerson School of Journalism. She was one of more than 70 researchers who worked on Generation Distress and played a key role with the team of journalism students from Ryerson University. Q: What was it like being a student working… Read more
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Unifor Summer Investigative Journalism Intern (two positions available)
The Investigative Journalism Bureau is hiring! Come work with the Investigative Journalism Bureau as a Unifor Summer Investigative Journalism Intern. Organization: The Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto (U of T). The Bureau conducts in-depth public interest journalism involving students, professional journalists, academics and researchers in… Read more
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RSJ investigative reporting course has stories published in the Toronto Star
via Ryerson School of Journalism Newsletter Students from the Ryerson School of Journalism’s investigative reporting class from the Winter 2020 semester have had some of the stories they were working on appear in the Toronto Star. The package of stories, called Generation Distress, external link, started appearing in the Toronto Star on Nov. 23. Generation Distress… Read more
