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Angela Misri

Assistant Professor
Education
Masters in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario (1999)
Courses  
JRN 271: Designing Journalism (Fall 2024)
JRN 851/JN8301: Newsroom Masthead (Fall 2024 and Winter 2025)
JRN 272: Feature Writing and Current Affairs (Winter 2025)

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.

  • 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
  • CAJ
  • SAJA
  • Writers Union
  • CANSCAIP
  • Crime Writers of Canada

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