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Shaghayegh Tajvidi. Photo by Philippe Maurice

Shaghayegh Tajvidi joins National Observer as Director of Digital Strategy and Creative Production

Shaghayegh Tajvidi will oversee the expansion of CNO’s climate reporting into new forms of storytelling that will bring us to the cutting edge of modern journalism.

Canadian media stand united in support of all journalists against online hate, threats and harassment

While criticism is an integral part of journalism and democracy, there can be no tolerance for hate and harassment of journalists or for incitement of attacks on journalists for doing their jobs.

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson. Photo by Yolanda Clatworthy

Canada’s National Observer plastics investigation up for Webster environmental reporting award

Canada’s National Observer has been nominated for the Jack Webster Foundation’s Environmental Reporting Award for Marc Fawcett-Atkinson’s “Canada is drowning in plastic waste — and recycling won’t save us.”

'Demigods' of journalism take prestigious award as National Observer's David McKie wins it for a second time

Canada’s National Observer’s deputy managing editor David McKie won a top award from the Canadian Association of Journalism (CAJ) Saturday evening.

Bill McKibben calls Trudeau 'a lucky guy' in wide-ranging interview

Veteran climate activist Bill McKibben joined Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood last week to talk about Canada's climate future.

Conversations

Meet the columnists joining Canada's National Observer in 2021

Karyn Pugliese, a.k.a. Pabàmàdiz; Julian Brave NoiseCat; Max Fawcett; and Andrea Reimer join Canada’s National Observer as regular columnists in 2021.

We asked Michael de Adder to sum up 2020

As America is ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump squats with his eyes glued to his phone, tweeting. A petulant grin on his face, he seems oblivious to the virus spilling out all around him in this cartoon by Michael de Adder.

Biden says he'd transition America away from oil industry to renewable energy 'over time'

U.S. Election 2020

How disinformation threatened the 2019 federal election, and what journalists and governments did to fight it

Disinformation had already played an enormous role in the 2016 Brexit vote and in the U.S. presidential election held the same year. Canadian authorities were issuing warnings, but no one knew how the federal vote would play out.

Democracy and Integrity Reporting Project

Coming on Zoom: Former CSIS director on disinformation and national security

To celebrate five years of award-winning independent journalism, Canada’s National Observer is releasing an in-depth report on election disinformation, Digital Fractures: Disinformation, Democracy and the Media, and presenting a special six-part instalment of its Conversations series.

Conversations