Good to have you here.
Shared Bylines is back for 2024. We are a mentorship and scholarship program. We’re here to help BIPOC student journalists who are ready to take the next step in their career. We’re looking for journalists who want to support the next generation. We’re asking for donations to better share the wealth. We need you.
Shared Bylines is a scholarship and mentorship program, backed by seasoned journalists, who know that breaking into the industry is no easy task, especially for Black Canadians, Indigenous peoples and other people of colour. Shared Bylines aims to overcome those barriers by offering financial and professional support for promising student journalists who have set their sights on much-needed change, who have traditionally been underrepresented in Canadian media and who are ready to do the work.
Special thanks
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Unifor Local 87-M
Shared Bylines launched in 2021 out of Unifor Local 87-M with $3,000. In 2023, Unifor upped its commitment to $9,000.
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Postmedia
In 2022, we proudly launched with $15,000 in funding from Canada’s largest media companies, including Postmedia’s contribution of $6,000.
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The Globe and Mail
After contributing $3,000 in 2021 and 2022, The Globe and Mail increased its 2023 Shared Bylines contribution to $6,000.
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Torstar
Torstar has supported Shared Bylines with $3,000 donations in 2021 and 2022. These contributions are bolstered by our crowdfunding campaign i.e. you! Help us reach our goal of $18,000. TIA!
Why apply?
You are the next generation of journalists who value equity and inclusion. You don’t settle for the status quo. You want to produce journalism that truly speaks to underserved communities. Whose stories get told? Who gets to tell them?
It should be you, and Shared Bylines want to help.
This is us.
SIERRA BEIN is an editor at The Globe and Mail and author of their Globe Climate newsletter. She has previously worked stints with VICE and the National and Financial Post, and is a proud alumni of the TMU independent student newspaper, The Eyeopener. She is a 2022 FASPE fellow and one of the OG founders of Shared Bylines from the Unifor 87-M equity committee.
CLIFF LEE is an editor at The Globe and Mail, chair of the Globe union and chair of the Unifor 87-M equity committee. Over a decade and a half, he has contributed to a wide range of news and culture coverage, from city politics as Assistant Toronto Editor to the best in Canadian literature as Books Editor. He is currently the Letters Editor and one of the OG founders of Shared Bylines with Sierra. He went to TMU forever ago and is a proud alumni of The Eyeopener.
ROSA SABA is a business reporter at the Canadian Press. She previously worked for Toronto Star as a business reporter, and StarMetro covering everything under the sun, but especially agriculture, human rights and politics. She has also worked at The Globe and Mail as a digital editor. She was the first person to graduate from Carleton University's Journalism and Humanities program, and was editor-in-chief of campus newspaper The Charlatan.
TABASSUM SIDDIQUI is a Toronto-based journalist with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, editor and producer who has worked for most of the country's top media outlets, including the CBC, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, Maclean's, NOW Magazine and many more. She has deep roots within Toronto’s arts and culture scene, particularly as a longtime music critic who also serves on the Polaris Music Prize and Prism Prize juries.
Shared Bylines organizers past and present: Nadine Yousif | Chris Hannay | Ming Wong | Jessie Willms | Kiran Rana | Evan Annett | Adrian Lee | Timothy Moore | Shree Paradkar | Sara Mojtehedzadeh | Jim Rankin | Jennifer Yang | Noor Javed | J. Kelly Nestruck | Robyn Doolittle | Iain Boekhoff | Beatrice Paez | Nawa Tahir | Mark Ramzy | Kelly Pedro | Jadine Ngan | Andrea Yu | Jake Edmiston | Kat Eschner | Sal Farooqui | Mike Hager | Tom Cardoso | David Crosbie | Caora McKenna | Alisha Sawhney