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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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Collaborator Profile: Neil Seeman
The IJB profiles our collaborators from time to time. Our inaugural piece features Neil Seeman, whose work was integral to the recently-published Generation Distress investigation. Seeman is the founder, chief executive officer, chief privacy officer and chairman of RIWI Corp. He leads overall company strategy and RIWI’s work in global public health security –– and in global security… Read more
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RSJ investigative reporting course has stories published in the Toronto Star
By Jonathan Bradley 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.… Read more
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IJB launches series on North America’s youth mental health crisis
By IJB staff Something is happening inside the minds of young people. One in five Canadian youth are part of a mental health crisis that is undermining—and far too often ending—their lives as they struggle to find effective help that may never arrive, a year-long investigation has found. This generation of children and young people… Read more
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University of Toronto’s new investigative bureau met with praise amid pandemic
The Investigative Journalism Education Consortium, a consortium which brings together the experience and knowledge of university journalism professors who teach investigative reporting, wrote about the IJB. They arebased at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read more
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Opinion: Dalla Lana’s new IJB is a promising development in investigative journalism
Article via The Varsity By Mélina Lévesque Whether it’s sitting in front of a television screen at home watching the daily updates on COVID-19 or reading about the latest developments of a potential vaccine in your copy of The Globe and Mail, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic rest at the core of current journalistic inquiry. During… Read more
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Reactions to the IJB launch…
We are grateful for all of the inspirational messages of support in response to the IJB official launch on October 22. Here’s a sampling: Read more