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Angela Misri

Assistant Professor
EducationMasters in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario (1999)
Memberships/ServicesCAJ; SAJA; Writers Union; CANSCAIP; Crime Writers of Canada
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Angela Misri is a Toronto journalist and novelist who worked at the CBC for 14 years before becoming the Digital Director for The Walrus. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and a co-director for the Local News Research project, with a focus on research related to AI and news practice. Misri also runs the newsroom for the student masthead in the School of Journalism at TMU -- teaching the next generation how to report on their communities. She writes for many different media groups including the Globe and Mail, CBC, The Walrus, Global TV, and is the author of seven fiction novels.

Angela Misri's research investigates how technological change transforms journalistic authority, ethics, and public trust. Her research examines the ethics of using AI to create journalism, the governance of AI within newsroom workflows, and the evolving dynamics of authorship and credibility in AI-mediated podcasting and local-news production. Through design-science interventions, legal-ethical analysis, and qualitative audience research, she studies how transparency practices and institutional structures shape the legitimacy of contemporary journalism. Together, her projects form a cohesive inquiry into how journalists and communities negotiate the boundaries of credible storytelling in an era of growing automation.

  • Blanchett, N., & Misri, A. (2025). Rethinking Journalistic Role Conceptions and Role Performance as Artificial Intelligence Integrates Into Newsrooms. In A. Sarısakaloğlu & M. Löffelholz (Eds.), The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism (pp. 153–166). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394250424.ch10 (external link) 
  • Misri, A., Blanchett, N., & Lindgren, A. (2025). “There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom. Digital Journalism, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2495693
  • Misri, A. (2024). Poisoning an already poisoned well. AI & Society. doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01876-5
  • Misri, A. (2023). Newsroom Notes. Facts and Frictions: Emerging Debates, Pedagogies and Practices in Journalism Education, 3 (1), 135-138. doi: 10.22215/ff/v3.i1.15

  • Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence (TMU) Distinction (2025)
  • Seven Digital Publishing Awards, most recently for a General Excellence award for thewalrus.ca and Best Digital Editorial Package for the series Sex Ed Beyond The Classroom/The Walrus
  • Canadian Online Publishing (silver) award for best COVID-19 coverage
  • Four RTNDA awards for online documentaries
  • CBC President’s Award for rebuild of cbc.ca/radio main site and all /radio pages
  • Prix Italia for CBC4kids website
  • 2021 Hackmatack Award for Children’s Fiction for Pickles vs the Zombies