2025 Digital Publishing Awards Jury

The National Media Awards Foundation is pleased to introduce the roster of judges for the 2024 Digital Publishing Awards. We are immensely grateful to each of these judges who volunteered their expertise and time to help us select and celebrate the tremendous talent within the Canadian digital media industry.

Our Jury

Sue Allan

Sue Allan is POLITICO‘s Canada editor. She is on the board of World Press Freedom Canada and a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. Prior to joining POLITICO, she worked as a senior editor at Maclean’s, iPolitics, and the Ottawa Citizen.


Bert Archer

Archer has worked for dailies, weeklies across the continent, most recently as editor in chief of the Montreal Gazette. He has been a columnist for Toronto Life, a regular contributor to En Route, and a reader of Canadian magazines since childhood.


Oona Barrett

Oona Barrett est vidéojournaliste pour le média Pivot. Elle couvre une variété de sujets sociaux, tels que l’itinérance, la crise du logement et les enjeux migratoires. Elle a aussi réalisé plusieurs enquêtes de longue haleine, notamment sur l’exploitation des travailleurs immigrants aux Québec et sur les biais des médias dans la couverture du conflit israélo-palestinien. En ce moment, elle réalise son premier long-métrage documentaire qui explore la lutte pour la préservation de l’identité rohingya après le génocide, alors qu’une grande partie de cette communauté vit en exil au Bangladesh, dans le plus grand camp de réfugiés du monde.


Magdaline Boutros

Magdaline Boutros est journaliste depuis une vingtaine d’années. Depuis 2018, elle couvre les enjeux sociétaux et l’actualité internationale pour le quotidien Le Devoir. En 2021, elle a été nommée journaliste de l’année au Concours canadien de journalisme, conjointement avec sa collègue Améli Pineda. Au fil des ans, elle a réalisé plusieurs reportages à l’étranger, notamment en Ukraine, au Pakistan, au Liban, au Kazakhstan, en Argentine et au Groenland. Elle a publié en 2024 le recueil Lettres d’Ukraine — récits intimes d’un pays en guerre aux Éditions Somme toute — Le Devoir.

Alexia Boyer

Alexia Boyer is the editor in chief of Quartier Libre, the University of Montreal’s independent student newspaper. She also contributes to various publications as a freelancer, and hosts the podcast Québec au pluriel about building its identity as a Quebecer.


Richard Burnett

Dubbed “Mr. Montreal” by CBC Arts, Richard “Bugs” Burnett is a journalist and columnist for various media. His pioneering column Three Dollar Bill is the only syndicated LGBTQ column in Canadian publishing history. Bugs has interviewed everybody from Cher to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and knows Montreal like a drag queen knows a cosmetics counter.


Constance Cazzaniga

Constance Cazzaniga est journaliste pigiste. Elle collabore notamment avec les cahiers spéciaux du Devoir et le magazine Châtelaine, pour lequel elle est également édimestre. En 2024, elle a été nommée aux National Magazine Awards dans la section Article court pour son texte « Être une tradwife: promouvoir l’extrême droite dans le confort de son foyer », publié dans Elle Québec. Auparavant, elle a notamment été cheffe de la section culturelle du journal Métro.


Nathalie Cusson

Nathalie Cusson is a multidisciplinary Creative Director with 20 years in the Advertising and Design industries. She brings extensive hands-on experience in editorial design, corporate identity, branding design, and art direction, as well as motion design and film making. She has worked on many iconic Canadian brands, including; LCBO, Air Canada’s enRoute, Fairmont Hotel & Resorts, CIBC, Telus and Canada Post, as well as not-for-profit organizations such as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Rethink Breast Cancer, BlackCAN, Unicef Canada and MILA (Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute). Nathalie is currently Executive Creative Director of Design for The Humanity Agency.


Julie Do

Julie is a design leader passionate about creating inclusive, accessible digital experiences that transform how people interact with technology. She specializes in growing and scaling design teams, driving craft and execution, and fostering collaboration between product and design.
Julie is trained as a Graphic Designer and is currently building and leading a Product Design team at RBCx, designing a youth banking experience to help the next generation financially thrive.


Marc Edge

Marc Edge has written for Hockey (1978-82), The National (1990-2001) and Monitor (2016-19). He worked for the Calgary Herald and Vancouver Province (1974-1993), then took his doctorate and taught Journalism for 20 years. He has written eight books.


Ximena González

Ximena González is an independent journalist based in Calgary. A background in architecture and environmental design guide Ximena’s nuanced reporting on urban affairs, housing, and real estate. Her work has appeared in local and national outlets, including the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Tyee. In 2023, Ximena won a Digital Publishing Award for best feature article (short).


Andre Goulet

Andre Goulet is director and strategic planner at unrigged.ca, Canada’s community of 27 independent progressive journalism publishers, and executive director at harbingermedianetwork.com, Canada’s community of 80 progressive podcasts. Goulet is also the audio producer for more than 700 podcast episodes with breachmedia.ca, at pivot.quebec, at spacing.ca and others and hosts the nationally syndicated ‘Harbinger Showcase’ radio show and the long-running and internationally-acclaimed history, society and culture podcast The Korea File.


Natalie Harmsen

Natalie is an associate producer at CBC Music. Prior to joining CBC, she was the assistant editor at Complex Canada and Slice. Her writing has appeared in Global News, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, Elle Canada and more. She has won a gold Canadian Online Publishing Award and received an honourable mention for best personal journalism at the National Magazine Awards.


Katie Jensen

Katie Jensen is a podcast producer who specializes in arts & cultures, news & current events, and science audio storytelling. She runs Vocal Fry Studios, a podcast production company in Toronto and she has made podcasts for CBC Podcasts, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, The Globe and Mail, Canadaland and many others.


Pascal Lapointe

Pascal Lapointe est journaliste scientifique depuis 30 ans et rédacteur en chef de l’Agence Science-Presse (ASP), un média à but non lucratif dont les textes sont repris par plusieurs médias francophones à travers le Canada. Avec sa collègue Josée Nadia Drouin, il a contribué à créer en 2016 la rubrique de vérification des faits (« fact-checking ») Le Détecteur de rumeurs et à engager l’ASP dans l’éducation à l’information, par l’intermédiaire de contenus vidéo et audio, et d’ateliers en classe. L’ASP a récemment créé un cours en ligne gratuit de littératie scientifique à l’intention des professionnels de l’information, Décoder l’info scientifique. Pascal est également chargé de cours en journalisme à l’Université de Montréal et a publié quelques livres, notamment sur la vulgarisation et le journalisme à la pige.

Eve Lazarus

Eve Lazarus is the author of 11 books of non-fiction, and she is the host and producer of the true crime podcast Cold Case Canada. Her books include the BC bestsellers Cold Case BC; Murder by Milkshake; Blood, Sweat, and Fear; and Cold Case Vancouver. Her latest book is Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck coming out this April.www.evelazarus.com


Katia Lo Innes

Katia Lo Innes is a writer and journalist based in Montréal. She is the Associate Producer at The Breach. Her writing has appeared in Maisonneuve, Hobart Pulp, ExPat, and others.


Sayyara Mammadova

Sayyara is a journalist specializing in disinformation, fact-checking, OSINT. A Research Associate at DFRLab, she focuses on disinformation and influence operations. She trains in digital investigative tools; assesses fact-checkers at IFCN and EFCSN.


Emma McIntosh

Emma McIntosh is a Toronto-based reporter for The Narwhal, where she writes about environmental policy and the natural world in Ontario. She was part of the joint Narwhal/Toronto Star team that won a Michener Award in 2024 for investigating Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal. Stories she’s worked on have also been recognized by the National Newspaper Awards, the Canadian Association of Journalists and the Digital Publishing Awards.


Megan McPhaden

A journalist turned digital content strategist, Megan McPhaden has spent the past ten years managing the production and strategy of editorial content for print, digital, and broadcast media organizations.


Shalu Mehta

Shalu Mehta is the Island editor for The Discourse and is based on the traditional land of the lək̓ʷəŋən People (Victoria, B.C.). She works with reporters in the Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo and Comox Valley. Prior to this, she was a reporter for The Discourse Cowichan, as well as other local newspapers on Vancouver Island and in Ontario. Shalu has a deep passion for trauma-informed journalism and aims to centre voices that aren’t often heard. She also enjoys environmental reporting and examining the intersections between social and environmental issues. Shalu takes a listening-first approach to her work and endeavours to ground it in learnings from the community.


Angela Mullins

Angela Mullins is the editorial director at Pink Triangle Press, Canada’s longest serving 2SLGBTQIA+ media organization and the publisher of Xtra magazine. She has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist in the U.S. and Canada


Ashley Okwuosa

Ashley Okwuosa is a GTA based journalist and a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School where she received the African Pulitzer fellowship. Her work has been nominated for a 2022 National Magazine Award and a 2023 Digital Publishing Award.


Paloma Pacheco

Paloma Pacheco is a Vancouver-based journalist who writes about culture, social issues and how humans and the natural world interact. Her reporting and essays can be found in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, Canadian Geographic, Maisonneuve, The Tyee and Best Health Magazine, among others.


Améli Pineda

Améli Pineda est journaliste d’enquête au journal Le Devoir. Elle s’est démarquée par sa couverture des dossiers de violences sexuelles et conjugales dans la foulée du mouvement #MoiAussi. Elle affectionne les affaires judiciaires et sociales et privilégie le travail de terrain, qui permet de mettre des visages sur des enjeux d’actualité.

Anusha Runganaikaloo

Originaire de l’île Maurice, Anusha est diplômée en médiation culturelle et communication de l’université de Montpellier (France). Fondatrice du magazine littéraire Soleil hirsute, elle est bénévole depuis plusieurs années au sein d’un centre de soins palliatifs pédiatriques à Montréal. Elle intègre l’équipe de la maison d’édition L’Esprit libre en 2021, où elle est présentement responsable du balado Voix libres et membre de l’équipe chargée de la communication sur les réseaux sociaux.


Alexis Riopel

Alexis Riopel est journaliste au Devoir depuis 2018, où il couvre la science, l’énergie et l’environnement. Il signe également la chronique «Nouvel équilibre» dans Québec Science depuis 2024. Après un baccalauréat en physique (Université de Montréal) et une maîtrise en sciences atmosphériques et océaniques (Université McGill), il a été lauréat de la bourse Fernand-Seguin en journalisme scientifique en 2017.

Lela Savic

Lela Savic is the founding editor of La Converse, a francophone community-powered media. She has worked at Journal Métro in Montreal, covering politics and human rights, CBC’s investigative show Enquête, La Presse and regularly presents lectures on biases and positionality in the media in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Psychology from Concordia University and a certificate in Journalism from the University of Montreal. The misrepresentation of her people in the media, the Roma, pushed her to the world of journalism.


Bifan Sun

Bifan Sun est journaliste spécialisée dans les enjeux de racisme et d’anti-racisme pour Pivot. Elle s’engage à faire entendre les voix issues des communautés racisées, sous-représentées dans la sphère médiatique francophone. Elle a notamment couvert des actualités liées à la justice migratoire et à la justice environnementale.


Maryse Tessier

Maryse Tessier est Montréalaise d’adoption. Elle est diplômée de l’Université de Montréal en traduction et en journalisme. Elle occupe la fonction de journaliste au pupitre web et mobile de La Presse depuis 2010. Elle a assuré pendant plusieurs années la présence du quotidien montréalais sur les réseaux sociaux. Depuis 2019, elle crée de la vidéo. Elle se passionne pour les sujets un peu champ gauche, en plus d’avoir à cœur l’expérience utilisateur. Depuis 2022, elle rédige l’infolettre L’angle positif, toujours pour La Presse.


Sophie Allard

Sophie Allard est actuellement rédactrice en chef des magazines jeunesse Les Explorateurs et Sport Débrouillards. Pendant 20 ans, elle a été journaliste au quotidien La Presse où elle a remporté plusieurs prix. L’an dernier, elle faisait partie de l’équipe du magazine 100°, finaliste du Prix d’excellence en publication numérique. Autrice, elle a publié à ce jour plus d’une douzaine de titres.


Leslie Andrachuk

Leslie Andrachuk has worked in the digital media and marketing space for over 25 years, working for a variety of companies launching and operating digital media such as Eyeweekly.com, CanadianImmigrant.ca, Sway Magazine, Real Estate News and others. Her marketing experience includes time at The Globe and Mail and at HomeStars where she was Director of Marketing at both companies. Leslie is currently the Digital Director at The Health Insider. Prior to this, she founded a multi-platform media network called Alpha Woman. As a fluent speaker of French and English, Leslie also worked overseas with a number of global brands, launching an ISP for Vodafone Romania and heading up an account team for McCann Erickson Romania where she managed brands such as Coca-Cola, L’Oreal and Unilever. Additionally, she is the co-founder of Canada’s Top 25 Immigrants Awards.


Jesse Andrushko

Since joining APTN’s digital news team eight years ago, Jesse has contributed to the development of podcasts, live streaming initiatives, web page development and expanding the networks’ reach. Métis, with a passion for technology and video, Jesse is committed to creating high-quality, impactful digital content. A former intern the Journalists for Human Rights program, he continues to explore innovative ways to connect audiences.


Nathaniel Basen

Nathaniel Basen is the senior editor for TVO Today.

Christopher Bond

Chris is an award winning art director with over 25 years experience working for some of Canada’s top brands in both print and digital publishing and marketing. Chris recently joined the team at Zoomer magazine as Art Director, working on the magazine and all digital channels.

Previously, he worked as Associate Creative Director on the Sobeys account at St. Joseph Communications and prior to that, at a variety of iconic Canadian magazine brands, including Canadian Living, Style at Home, ELLE Canada and HELLO Canada. During this time he worked with development, digital and editorial content, sales and marketing teams to facilitate the creation, implementation and management of digital best practices, technical innovation, partnerships and strategy across all print and digital platforms.

Chris lives on the east side of Toronto with his husband and Pug, Piper.


Jean Bourbeau

A graduate in literature from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Jean Bourbeau has been a journalist since 2020. From local stories to major global issues, he has traveled across four continents, capturing the world through immersive, first-person journalism that seamlessly intertwines narrative and photography. His acclaimed work draws inspiration from the New Journalism movement, embracing immersion, intimacy, and a subjective lens to bring reality to life with depth and nuance.


Sheima Benembarek

Sheima Benembarek is a Moroccan Canadian journalist, writer, and magazine publishing professional. She has worked as a special reports editor at Strategy, a senior editor for Toronto Life, an events manager for The Walrus (where she focused on developing programming for The Walrus Talks series that featured underrepresented voices), a business development and brand communications lead at Corporate Knights, and as an associate editor at Broadview. Currently, she is a contributing writer for The Walrus. Sheima is also the author of Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America.


Jamie Bradburn

Toronto-based freelance writer/historian, who primarily writes for TVO Today. Past winner of a National Magazine Award (2014, Blog category). Have previously judged for both NMA and DPA.

David Bruser

David is the Toronto Star’s Investigations Editor. He previously worked as a reporter and deputy editor on the Investigations team.

He first joined the Star as an intern in 2003, when he returned home from his first reporting job in McComb, Mississippi.


Mathieu Carbasse

Après avoir occupé notamment un poste de producteur à Noovo Info ou de rédacteur en chef adjoint à L’actualité, Mathieu Carbasse a choisi de renouer avec le travail de terrain. Reporter généraliste au Devoir, il couvre le secteur de l’économie et s’intéresse aux grandes questions de société, au Québec comme à l’étranger. Titulaire d’un baccalauréat en journalisme de l’Institut Supérieur des Médias de Lyon (France), il a remporté en 2024 la Médaille d’argent aux Prix d’excellence en publication numérique pour le documentaire «Témoin C.F.».


Matteo Cimellaro

Matteo Cimellaro has spent the past three years reporting on the intersection of climate change and Indigenous affairs for Canada’s National Observer. His work on wildfires awarded him an international climate journalism award. He is now writing on the public service for the Ottawa Citizen. Matteo is mixed-race with ancestral ties to Ermineskin Cree Nation and Southern Italy.


Kate Daley

Kate Daley is an award-winning journalist and communications professional. She was an editor at leading Canadian magazines, worked brand strategy at SickKids Foundation and is currently the Associate Director of Communications at Campfire Circle.


Ralph Elawani

Ralph Elawani est écrivain, journaliste et éditeur. Il est l’auteur d’une biographie du romancier et cinéaste Emmanuel Cocke, C’est complet au royaume des morts (2014), d’un essai sur la contre-culture au Québec, Les marges détachables (2014), ainsi que d’un recueil de poésie, Tout ce que la police ne sait pas (2025). Depuis 2010, il a rédigé plusieurs centaines de portraits et d’articles dans la presse spécialisée, en plus de contribuer à une dizaine de chapitres dans divers ouvrages collectifs publiés en français et en anglais. En 2020, il a codirigé, avec Guillaume Lafleur, l’ouvrage XPQ: traversée du cinéma expérimental québécois. Il a également coécrit les textes de l’album Exposition individuelle du groupe Hippie Hourrah, paru en 2023. En tant qu’éditeur, Ralph Elawani est responsable de la création des collections NITRATE et FILMÉCRITURE aux éditions Somme toute, qui ont publié plusieurs livres consacrés au septième art.


Vanessa Grant

Vanessa Grant is the editor-in-chief of Today’s Parent. With more than 15 years of experience in journalism and content marketing, she’s shaped engaging content for some of Canada’s top media brands.


Alyshah Hasham

Alyshah Hasham is a journalist with the Toronto Star, currently covering city hall after several years on the courts beat.


Matt Joycey

Matt Joycey has worked in Montreal’s news media industry for the past 13 years. He has shot and edited award winning long and short form pieces of content for VICE, Québecor and Le Devoir. He is now freelancing and continues to gain experience on the field working as a reporter, photojournalist and director of photography with collaborators like The New York Times, and l’Actualité.


Philippe Lépine

Philippe Lépine is the deputy editor-in-chief at Châtelaine. He has worked for Quebec francophone news outlets Métro, HuffPost, La Presse, L’actualité as a journalist and multi-platform director. He thrives in digital environments and covers social issues and style trends.


Carly Lewis

Carly Lewis is a journalist living in Toronto. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and Digital Publishing Awards. In 2023 she received the Dave Greber Magazine Writing Award.


Jessica MacDonald

Jessica MacDonald is an editor based in Toronto, ON, with over five years of experience working in the Canadian magazine industry. She is currently Managing Editor at the Inuit Art Quarterly.

Dominique Maheux

Forte d’une vingtaine d’années d’expériences professionnelles, Dominique a collaboré avec de nombreux médias : Journal Voir & Hour, MusiquePlus & MusiMax, À la Di Stasio, Super Écran, Canal Vie, Z, VRAK, Muramur, FraichementPressé & Sympatico, Stingray, et URBANIA.

Gestionnaire de contenu aguerrie, les points forts de Dominique sont la conception-création, la scénarisation du contenu et sa mise en image.

Dominique, c’est aussi une passionnée de design, de culture, d’architecture, de stylisme, de bouffe et de vin.

Maddy Mahoney

Maddy Mahoney is a features editor at Toronto Life magazine. Their work has also appeared in Xtra, Maisonnueve and CBC.


Jackie McKay

Jackie McKay is a Métis journalist working for CBC Indigenous covering B.C. She was a reporter for CBC North for more than five years spending the majority of her time in Nunavut. McKay has been honoured to tell stories from Indigenous communities across Canada. Her work has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalism awards, The Canadian Screen Awards, the Indigenous Media Awards, and the Digital Publishing Awards.  


Katie Mercer

Katie, a strategist at Blue Engine Collaborative, excels in digital editorial innovation and audience growth. As the former VP of Content at Glacier Media, she expertly merged digital strategies with storytelling, enhancing online media presence.


Sasha Nagy

Sasha Nagy is a veteran journalist turned video producer, who has worked in visual storytelling with some of the country’s largest media brands from the Globe and Mail, Huffington Post Canada and Yahoo. He currently leads Forty First Street Media.


Valérie Ouellet

Valérie Ouellet is a bilingual investigative reporter with CBC News in Toronto. She focuses on data-driven storytelling, often reporting on women’s health, Canada’s carceral system and social injustices. She has won a CAJ Data Journalism Award, an Amnesty International Media Award and the prestigious St. Clair Balfour Fellowship in 2022. She also teaches data journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University and mentors early-career journalists through the Canadian Association of Journalists.


Neil Parmar

Neil supports the marketing team at SickKids Foundation, which fundraises for The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). He’s also a board member at Community Foundations of Canada and the Edmonton International Film Festival.


Mark Pupo

Mark Pupo is the author of Sundays (Appetite, Penguin Random House Canada). He has contributed to Toronto Life, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, The Globe and Mail, Cottage Life, Reader’s Digest Canada and Chatelaine.


Della Rollins

Della is a Toronto-based freelance producer, photographer and photo editor. She has worked as Photo Editor at Studio Wyse, overseeing photography for Canadian Business, University of Toronto Magazine, Toronto Metropolitan University Magazine, Willamette Magazine, Voyageur Magazine, Queen’s Alumni Review and other clients. Prior to joining Studio Wyse, she was a Contributing Photo Editor and Freelance Video Producer at Maclean’s. Her photo and video work has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines and she also shoots for a large roster of some of the world’s top organizations.


Maryam Siddiqi

Maryam Siddiqi is a Toronto-based editor, writer and editorial consultant specializing in the social impact of travel and lifestyle trends. Her journalism work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Geographic, Afar, Food and Wine and National Geographic among other publications.


Marylène Têtu

Ancienne réalisatrice radio et réalisatrice numérique avec l’équipe de Radio-Canada, à Vancouver, Marylène Têtu est actuellement cheffe de projets numériques pour les Médias régionaux. Elle compte parmi ses tâches, la coordination des récits Empreintes, à l’échelle du pays.


Sandrine Vieira

Sandrine Vieira couvre la politique fédérale à titre de correspondante parlementaire à Ottawa. Avant cela, elle a été journaliste de données, où ses projets ont été récompensés pour leur excellence en publication numérique.


Hannah Yakobi

Hannah Yakobi is the Editor-in-Chief of FAJO Magazine, and an award-winning journalist & communications executive. Over the last 24 years, she has interviewed and photographed many icons, such as Al Pacino, Isaac Mizrahi, Kate Winslet & Kenzo Takada.



Kate Allen

Kate Allen is an award-winning climate change reporter at the Toronto Star. She is based out of the Toronto City Hall press gallery, and covers the global climate crisis with a sharply local lens. She has been writing about science and the environment for more than a decade, and has covered subjects as varied as Japanese jellyfish blooms, a two-year-old’s access to greenspace, and the fate of a dead blue whale skeleton. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.


Luc Archambault

Journaliste, auteur, éditeur, Luc Archambault se démarque par sa grande curiosité intellectuelle, sa passion pour le cinéma et son appétit pour les destinations lointaines. Ainsi, il a bourlingué un peu partout en Amérique du Nord, a vécu deux ans en Allemagne, un an au Maroc, un an en Inde et trois ans en Chine, sans compter les innombrables heures à explorer les méandres de l’expérience humaine via son immense bibliothèque personnelle.


Marie-Lou Bernatchez

Professionnelle polyvalente, j’ai développé une expertise en rédaction et en gestion de projets au fil de diverses expériences. Actuellement, je travaille en tant que rédactrice francophone adjointe chez Universities Canada, où je me consacre à la recherche et à la rédaction d’articles de fond. Auparavant, j’ai été journaliste indépendante pour plusieurs publications telles que Last Mountain Times Ltd. et Sasktoday.ca. J’ai également occupé des rôles de leadership au Journal l’Eau vive en Saskatchewan, où j’ai été directrice générale , tout en poursuivant ma carrière de journaliste. Au cours de ma carrière, j’ai eu l’honneur de recevoir plusieurs distinctions pour mon travail journalistique. J’ai été finaliste pour l’article d’actualité de l’année en août 2023, décerné par Réseau.presse, ainsi que pour l’article Arts et culture de l’année en septembre 2022, attribué par l’Association de la presse francophone, en lien avec mon travail pour le Journal l’Eau vive. En 2022, j’ai également été récompensée pour ma photographie, en recevant les titres de Photographie de l’année et de « Une » de l’année lors des prix de l’Association de la presse francophone. De plus, en 2020, j’ai remporté le prix du Meilleur article de l’année dans la catégorie Arts & Culture, toujours en collaboration avec le Journal l’Eau vive.


Kathy Buckworth

I’m the author of six published books and hundreds of articles on parenting and travel, in print and online. Website kathybuckworth.com

Dmitry Beniaminov

Dmitry is a web guru and technology consultant specializing in digital transformation, technology education, streamlined process operations and all things web.


Cristina Carpio

Cristina is a TV personality, storyteller, and brand strategist. with over ten years of experience in media, producing on multiple platforms. Most recently, one of the main hosts of CTV Morning Live and she owns digital publication Evolvemagazine.ca


Marine Corniou

Marine Corniou est la rédactrice en chef du magazine Québec Science depuis janvier 2024 ; elle y travaille depuis 2011, d’abord comme journaliste puis comme rédactrice en chef adjointe. Formée en agronomie et biologie moléculaire, elle a travaillé dans la presse médicale et grand public en France et au Québec. Elle se passionne pour tous les sujets scientifiques, de la physique des particules à l’environnement, des nouvelles technologies à la médecine. Lauréate de plusieurs prix de journalisme, elle est aussi l’autrice du livre C’est quoi être accro? paru aux éditions Auzou en 2023.


Matthew DiMera

Matthew DiMera is a journalist whose work focuses on the intersections of race, media and power. They are the founder of The Resolve, an independent media outlet in Canada centring and celebrating Indigenous, Black, and racialized stories.


Chris Gallipeau

Chris is a content development strategist with a passion for telling compelling, engaging and informative stories. His background is in video production, digital content development and strategy. Chris currently serves as the Director of Video, Audio & Apps at Postmedia. In this role he develops video and audio content strategies for Postmedia’s network of newsrooms and leads the product strategy for Postmedia’s digital properties with a focus on video, audio and apps.


Valérie Gaudreau

Valérie Gaudreau Chroniqueuse politique, Le Soleil Entrée au Soleil en 2003, Valérie Gaudreau a travaillé aux faits divers, au pupitre et aux arts et spectacles avant de couvrir la scène municipale de Québec 1 de 2011 à 2017. Elle a fait cette année-là le saut à la direction comme directrice de l’information avant d’être nommée rédactrice en chef du Soleil, poste qu’elle occupe de 2018 à janvier 2024, qui marque un retour à l’écriture à titre de chroniqueuse politique municipale et nationale. Elle est aussi impliquée à la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec et accompagne depuis 2011 les jeunes journalistes du magazine de rue La Quête. Valérie est passionnée de politique, de littérature et de culture pop.


François Grenier

François Grenier, issu des sciences humaines, est un communicateur scientifique de métier. Il a d’abord amorcé sa carrière en muséologie, à titre de rédacteur et de concepteur, entre autres pour le Biodôme de Montréal et le
Jardin botanique. Il a ensuite pratiqué les métiers de journaliste, de scénariste, de rédacteur en chef et de réalisateur dans le genre du documentaire scientifique tout en continuant de collaborer à de nombreuses expositions, notamment pour le Centre des sciences de Montréal et la Biosphère. Comptant plusieurs cordes à son arc, François se distingue par sa rigueur, sa méticulosité et l’originalité de son écriture qu’il met au service de M361, depuis plus de huit ans, à titre de conseiller spécial.


Madi Haslam

Madi Haslam is the digital editor of Toronto Life. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of Maisonneuve. She is editor of the anthology Letters From Montreal: Tales of an Exceptional City (Véhicule Press, 2022).

Lito Howse

Lito is a Toronto-based video producer, photographer and editor. They have previously worked as a senior writer and producer for CBC News Network tracking developing local, national and international news, and as a video producer with Xtra Magazine highlighting queer and trans narratives. Currently, they work as a video producer in the public sector and as a freelancer.


JP Karwacki

JP Karwacki is the managing editor of the Montreal cultural storytelling magazine The Main and its weekly newsletter The Bulletin. Previously the inaugural editor of Time Out Montreal, his bylines have appeared in NUVO, the Montreal Gazette, Time Magazine, Eater, and Cult MTL. He has been a juror for the Digital Publishing Awards since 2023. You can follow him on Instagram at @johnnycrust.


Wency Leung

Wency Leung is a reporter for The Local, an independent news magazine focusing on urban health and social issues in Toronto. She was previously a health reporter for The Globe and Mail, and she has worked at The Prague Post, The Vancouver Sun, The Cambodia Daily, and Reuters.


Genelle Levy

Genelle Levy is a journalist who has contributed to over 20+ publications including national newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, NBC News, Condé Nast and CBC News. In the past year she has covered climate change and its impact on Indigenous communities, the art sector in Toronto and the youth mental health crisis. Alongside her journalistic work, Genelle also teaches news and feature writing at Toronto Metropolitan University and Humber Polytechnic.


Minelle Mahtani

Minelle Mahtani is a scholar, writer and broadcaster. She won a gold medal in the Digital Publishing Awards for her piece in The Walrus and was nominated for two national magazine awards for her work in THIS magazine and Geist. Her work has further appeared in Maisonneuve, carte blanche and Southeast Review. Her memoir May it Have a Happy Ending is out now with Doubleday/Penguin Random House and was named one of the top 30 books to read this winter by CBC and one of the top 10 memoirs of the year by Audible Canada. It was also chosen by Books for Inmates as a book to be read in penitentiaries across Canada.


Erin McLaughlin

I launched ELLE Gourmet in Canada (print and digital) with business partner Jacqueline Howe. We publish ELLE Gourmet through our content company ELLISPark.co. I was formerly editorial director of Canadian Living, Style at Home & Canadian Gardening.


Angela Misri

Angela Misri is an award-winning journalist, author and educator who has worked in the industry for over 25 years at The Walrus and the CBC. She’s currently an assistant professor in TMU’s School of Journalism.


Marie-Christine Noël

Depuis 15 ans, Marie-Christine Noël porte plusieurs chapeaux, dont réalisatrice, scénariste, autrice et journaliste. Elle signe la réalisation des documentaires médiatisés Témoin C.F. sur le processus judiciaire de Catherine Fournier, agressée par l’ex-député Harold Lebel, ainsi que Drogues du viol sur le fléau de la soumission chimique au Canada. Elle est récipiendaire d’un prix Gémeaux pour son incursion dans le milieu des préposées aux bénéficiaires pendant la pandémie. En plus d’un documentaire, elle porte comme journalise la série balado (true crime) Par pure vengeance, l’histoire de Normand Dubé, un pilote qui a saboté les lignes d’Hydro-Québec avec son avion. Son premier livre Une médaille à tout prix sur les dérapages dans le milieu du patinage artistique au Québec a fait écho dans différentes organisations sportives au Canada. Elle signe aussi un documentaire sur le même sujet. En 2024, elle a remporté la très prestigieuse Bourse Michener-Deacon accordée par la gouverneure générale du Canada pour le journalisme d’enquête qui vise à promouvoir l’excellence en journalisme d’intérêt public.


Shannon Pécourt

Shannon Pécourt est journaliste au pupitre web au Devoir depuis 2019, où elle a participé à la stratégie du média sur les réseaux sociaux. Son affinité avec les chiffres l’a amenée à travailler pour La Presse canadienne en tant que journaliste de données. Elle s’intéresse également à l’immigration et à tout ce qui touche aux nouvelles technologies.

Maude Petel-Légaré

Maude Petel-Légaré est réalisatrice de documentaires sonores, formatrice et journaliste. Son écriture est principalement guidée par la parole et le ressenti de ceux et celles qu’elle rencontre. Au cours des dernières années, Maude a développé un fort intérêt pour les sujets en lien avec la violence basée sur le genre. Sa première série balado qui porte sur le sujet est Synthèses III: Le cas Catherine Daviau, un true crime féministe qui dénonce les féminicides au Québec, réalisé avec Claudia Larochelle et l’équipe de Transistor. Ce dernier leur a valu le prix du meilleur podcast hors France au Paris Podcast Festival en 2022.


Geneviève Raymond

Œuvrant dans les médias québécois (Radio-Canada, Québecor, Groupe Pixcom, TC Media, Musique Plus) depuis plus de 18 ans à titre de rédactrice en chef, journaliste, réalisatrice et experte en création de contenu multiplateforme, Geneviève a un intérêt marqué pour le numérique ainsi qu’une excellente notoriété dans le domaine. Elle partage aujourd’hui son expérience avec les étudiants et les étudiantes au certificat en journalisme de l’Université de Montréal.


Inori Roy

Inori Roy is a Toronto-based feature writer and associate editor at The Local magazine. She specializes in longform reporting that pairs revelatory data analysis with narrative and insights from people with lived experience. She has previously been published in the Toronto Star, CBC, and The Narwhal, and been nominated for the Digital Publishing Awards and Canadian Association of Journalists awards.


Kharoll-Ann Souffrant

Kharoll-Ann Souffrant is a social worker and doctoral candidate in Social Work at the University of Ottawa. She is a columnist for Noovo Info and À Babord! As an author, she has published Le privilege de dénoncer – Justice pour toutes les victimes de violences sexuelles (Éditions du remue-ménage, 2022) who has been chosen for the Jury’s Selection of the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal 2023. Her writing has appeared in Policy Options, Possibles, Liberté, Le Devoir, La Conversation Canada, The Globe and Mail and La Gazette des femmes.


David Topping

David is the Newsletters Director at the Toronto Star and Torstar’s other titles. Among other NMA and DPA wins over his career, he has racked up half of all the awards ever given for Best Infographic. (Okay, they only had it twice, but still.)


Alexandra Whyte

Alexandra Whyte is a writer and editor in Toronto who has covered everything from how coconuts ended up on the shores of New Brunswick to federal elections and interviews with the best chefs in the world. Her work has been published in House & Home, Toronto Life, Toronto Star, Canadian Business and more.

Fadi Yaacoub

Fadi Yaacoub is a media and brand strategist with 20+ years of experience across television, digital, mobile, social, and podcasts in both French and English markets. He has helped talents and businesses reinvent themselves and thrive in an evolving digital landscape. As the founder of FYRST, he works with executives, entrepreneurs, and creatives to build authentic brands that adapt and lead in the AI era. A returning jury member for the Digital Publishing Awards, Fadi is passionate about shaping the future of digital media.


Lucy Uprichard

Lucy Uprichard is a British writer, editor and fact-checker based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her current role is as the staff fact checker at The Walrus and she was previously the editor-in-chief for Maisonneuve and a contributing editor at The Breach. She has an interest in journalism that supports social justice movements and local DIY/literary projects.