RNAO Media Awards

Helen Tran is a part-time professor of communications at Niagara College and a freelance journalist. She is also a poet and novelist who has had poetry, flash fiction and short fiction published in literary magazines and anthologies throughout Canada. Her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Augur Magazine, Carousel Magazine, and Ricepaper Magazine’s Currents anthology, among others.

Robert Cribb is founder and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau and an investigative reporter at the Toronto Star.

Declan Keogh is an award-winning journalist and the Investigative Journalism Bureau’s senior reporter. His work seeks to enlighten the public on important issues — ranging from tainted drinking water, to the devastating overdose crisis, to the state of youth mental health.

Mashal Butt is a Vancouver-based journalist currently with The Walrus as an editorial fellow. Driven by forwarding equality, equity and social justice, Mashal focuses on the intersection between gender, race and sexuality, while centering the human experiences of those she reports on. She has previously worked with the Investigative Journalism Bureau, the Global Reporting Centre and The Tyee.

Steve McKinley is the Atlantic Canada correspondent for the Toronto Star.

Carolyn Jarvis is Global News’ chief investigative correspondent. Carolyn was awarded the 2018 Canadian Screen Award for a series that exposed shortcomings in Ontario’s probation system.

Andrew Russell is a national investigative journalist with Global News. He got his start in journalism in 2013 with an internship at Global after completing degrees at the University of Toronto and Humber College. His reporting has tackled issues like Canada’s COVID-19 response, problems in the long-term care industry, First Nations’ lack of access to safe drinking water, financial crimes and the opioid crisis.

Emanuela Campanella is a video journalist on the investigative team at Global News. Her work has garnered a Radio Television Digital News Association Award and several Canadian Digital Publishing Awards.

Jigar Patel is a former journalist at Global News. He joined Global in the summer of 2019, after graduating from Seneca College. Jigar is passionate about digital investigations and telling stories that matter to everyday people. Throughout the pandemic he has worked on stories ranging from investigations to daily reporting. He left Global News in 2022 and is currently based in Toronto.

Joanna Lavoie is a Toronto-based bilingual, award-winning journalist with more than a decade of diverse experience. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s (formerly Ryerson University) journalism program, she was a long-time breaking news/social justice reporter for toronto.com. As of May 2022, Joanna began a new role as a digital journalist with CP24's web team.

Imani Walker is a Toronto-based journalist with CBC Radio and CBC News. From cultural stories to politics, sports and health reporting, Imani's coverage focuses on Black, Indigenous and other racialized communities.

Caryn Lieberman shares her love of news with viewers as a senior reporter for Global News Toronto. A Concordia University journalism and communications graduate, who furthered her studies at the prestigious Poynter Institute, Caryn first joined the Global News team in Montreal before moving to CTV National.