It is with great pleasure that I announce the incoming William Southam Journalism Fellows. The Fellows were announced last night at the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) Gala in Toronto. Please join me in congratulating them – and I look forward to introducing them to you all in the fall!
Garvia Bailey, Webster McConnell Fellow
Garvia Bailey is a co-founder of the award-winning production company Media Girlfriends, which amplifies underrepresented voices in media. A Jamaican-born, small-town raised Torontonian, Garvia’s career spans two decades as a producer, host, and columnist for the CBC and JazzFM and as a freelance journalist. Her work includes the award-winning Canadian Black history podcast series, Strong and Free/Fort et Libre, which she hosted, co-wrote and co-produced. She is the co-creator of Storytelling with a Focus on Podcasting, a Carleton University course. Garvia is a judge for the Hillman Prize for Investigative Journalism.
Julia Caron, CBC Radio-Canada Fellow
Julia Caron is the host of Quebec AM, Quebec’s only English-language province-wide daily morning show. Prior to working for the CBC she freelanced and was a regular contributor to Shameless Magazine, Racialicious, Jezebel and had successful features in Al-Jazeera and WORN Journal. She holds a BA Honours from Trent University and a Masters in Documentary Film Studies from Université Laval.
Hamutal Dotan, William Southam Journalism Fellow
Hamutal Dotan is an editor, editorial consultant, and journalism teacher in Toronto with fifteen years of experience in magazine, newspaper, digital, and broadcast journalism. Previously she was senior editor at The Walrus, Focus editor at the Globe and Mail, and editor-in-chief of Torontoist, as well as a political analyst for the CBC. Features she has edited have been nominated for or won National Magazine Awards, National Newspaper Awards, and the Canadian Association of Journalists Award, among others. Her particular loves are long-form storytelling, editorial strategy, and building more equitable newsrooms.
Anna Mehler Paperny, St. Clair Balfour Fellow
Anna Mehler Paperny is an award-winning reporter with Reuters, covering everything from migration to health to justice. Her debut book, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person, was a national bestseller and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. She’s worked at The Globe and Mail and developed globalnews.ca’s award-winning Investigative Data Desk. Her work on deaths in Canadian prisons won an RTDNA Dan McArthur Award for investigative journalism.
Beatrice Senadju, Gordon N. Fisher / Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) Fellow
Beatrice Senadju is an award-winning Broadcast Journalist with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). With over ten years of experience Beatrice has risen through the ranks to become an Editor. Beatrice is the recipient of the Ghana Leadership Awards Journalist of the Year, 2022 as well as the Young Africa Media Centre’s Journalist of the Year Award in Disability Reporting. She is a philanthropist, who through her foundations, has transformed and inspired many lives through several mentorship and skill training programs. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Development Communications from the African University College of Communications, Accra.
Hasan Shaaban, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) / Massey College Fellow
Hasan Shaaban is a freelance photo journalist originally from Beirut, Lebanon who recently moved to Canada after facing death threats for his reporting. He was covering water shortages in a village in southern Lebanon when Hezbollah members threatened and attacked him. After covering Lebanon for years, the risk became too great, and he was forced to flee.
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Also at last night’s Canadian Journalism Foundation Gala Senior Fellow Haroon Siddiqui was awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award from CJF for his decades-long groundbreaking career in Canadian journalism and his commitment to diversity, journalistic integrity and social justice.
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MEETING OF MINDS
We are currently accepting applications for mentees and mentors for the 2023-2024 Meeting of Minds program. More information about a Meeting of Minds can be found on our website, here.
We would like to encourage Senior Fellows, Quadrangle Society Members and alumni (that are more than five years out from their graduate work) to apply and participate in this important program. It is a wonderful way to engage with and support our Junior Fellows.
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Massey Is Lunch pairs Junior Fellows with Senior Fellows, Quadrangle Society Members and alumni (that are more than five years out from their graduate work) for an informal lunch in Ondaatje Hall.
This program will continue through June andJuly .
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Exhibition in the Robertson Davies Lower Library
Legal charters in a Scots dialect. A letter from Queen Elizabeth I’s most powerful advisor. Parchment slips recording the lives of a tenant family in early modern England. A battered handwritten ledger bound with uncut pages of a printed book of which no other record exists. What are they doing in an archival box on a shelf in the Robertson Davies Library? Following clues found in books on the library shelves, in archives near and far, and in scraps left behind by antiquarian bookdealers, BOX 15 asks of each item in this modest white box: What is it? Who made it? What does it say or do? And how on earth did it land here?
Box 15, the latest exhibition by Guest Curator Christopher Patton is on in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College – I encourage you all to come and see it.
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Jackman Humanities Scholars-in-Residence
Through the month of May, five undergraduate students from a variety of programs at U of T worked in the Bibliography Room to begin a research-creation project that considers the potential of feminist and queer poetics to reimagine archives, libraries, and special collections. This program was supported by the Jackman Scholars-in-Residence Program housed at Victoria College.
The students created posters using some of the collection’s wood type; redescribed and reorganized some of the metal type; and examined and analyzed many of the amazing manuscripts, books, and artifacts relating to global print culture in Massey’s library collection, under the expert guidance of library assistant and BHPC program coordinator Chana Algarvio.
A collaboration between the David Fernandez at the Fisher Library, Kit MacNeil at Massey, and Claire Battershill in the Faculty of Information and the Department of English, the broader project of which these students’ work was part combines creative activations of historical materials with a critical information studies approach to collections development and management in order to find new ways of seeing and accessing library spaces for contemporary audiences.
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60th ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
On July 8, the Massey 60th anniversary celebrations launch with the first event of the season – the Massey College Alumni Association (MCAA) BBQ and Annual General Meeting! Come to have some great food and drink, reconnect with the College and the broader community, and hear updates on the state of the Alumni Association.
From the MCAA:
We encourage everyone interested to consider running for the MCAA Council by submitting a nomination – three positions are opening up, and we look forward to having you on our team as we revitalize the Alumni Council and their place at Massey!
We would also like to solicit project proposals for the MCAA Fund – a new initiative modelled on the JFI and QCF that seeks to increase the agency of Alumni in shaping Massey’s physical plant and activity offerings.
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Kreigsfilme – voting for the fourth round of the film selection is open now. Weigh in on what will be screened during our 60th Anniversary Celebrations.
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Awards/Honours
Felix Menze and Jamie Duncan – 2023–24 Schwartz Reisman graduate fellows
The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society is proud to announce its 2023 cohort of fellowship recipients, welcoming four new faculty fellows and sixteen new graduate fellows from across the University of Toronto. From computer science, medical biophysics, and applied engineering to architecture, psychology, and philosophy, Schwartz Reisman fellowships support interdisciplinary research projects that build new approaches to examine the complex relations between technology and society. https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/schwartz-reisman-institute-welcomes-2023-fellowship-recipients
Junior Fellow Otuto Chukwu and his supervisor have received Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Interdisciplinary Research Cluster Implementation Science Seed Funding. Otuto will be leading a study that aims at improving access to childhood cancer medicines in Nigeria by exploring the feasibility and readiness to enhance access.
Alum Julian Posada’s dissertation received an honourable mention and was a finalist at this year’s Association of Internet Researchers and iSchools’ best dissertation awards, respectively.
Junior Fellow Christine Tran won the Top Paper Award at the Canadian Game Studies Association Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noGx4Kh2ZI0
News
Alum Sivani Baskaran published in the Royal Society of Chemistry Environmental Science: Atmosphere https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/EA/D3EA00046J
Alum Marc Desormeaux comments on Canadian job numbers released by the federal government last week. Listen here. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1986785/le-debut-du-ralentissement-de-leconomie-canadienne-
Senior Fellow Jeffrey Dvorkin talks about freedom of information system in Canada on Global News Radio. Listen here. https://archive.tveyes.com/18120/4553853-202376/0f18cb1e-41f3-46a6-a16c-2fdc1244c757/CARADCHML_06-09-2023_15.39.04.mp3
Is the Medium Still the Generational Message? Senior Fellow Paolo Granata on TVO’s The Agenda. Watch it here. https://www.tvo.org/video/is-the-medium-still-a-generational-message
Journalism Fellow Alum Hannah Hoag wrote an Op-Ed in The Star about forest fires. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/06/09/climate-change-is-setting-making-forest-fire-season-longer-more-extreme.html
Alum Tajja Isen wrote Is CanCon Obsoete? in The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/is-cancon-obsolete/
Senior Fellow Akwasi Owusu-Bempah Discusses the Cannabis Act on CityNews. Watch it here. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/06/09/cannabis-act-canada-big-story-podcast/
Senior Fellow Shoshanna Saxe comments on traffic solutions pitched by Toronto mayoral candidates. Read it here. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/06/11/toronto-election-reality-check-how-the-mayoral-hopefuls-would-unclog-city-streets.html
Junior Fellow Leighton Schreyer published on developing a platform for collaboration of post-secondary students in Canada. Read here. https://celt.uwindsor.ca/index.php/CELT/article/view/7072
Leighton has also recently published a letter in the CMAJ in response to the impact of health disclosure on medical licensure registration in Canada. Read it here.
Senior Fellow Robert Vipond celebrated retirement after 42 years as a professor at UofT Political Science. Congratulations!
Senior Fellow Armine Yalnizyan on Global News weighing in on carbon hikes and the high cost of living. https://globalnews.ca/news/9758703/carbon-price-increase-cost-of-living/Sign off…..
