Shared Bylines

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SHARED BYLINES IS BACK FOR 2022. We’re all about journalism scholarships and mentorship. We’re here to help BIPOC student journalists who are ready to take the next step. 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 – and succeeding – 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.

Shared Bylines was first launched in 2021 out of Unifor Local 87-M with $3,000. From there, we raised a total of $18,000 that we turned into $3,000 scholarships for six Shared Bylines students.

In 2022, we’re proud to launch with $15,000 in funding from Canada’s largest media companies. This year, Postmedia joins the Shared Bylines family with a contribution of $6,000. Thank you!

We’re honoured that The Globe and Mail, Torstar Corporation and 87-M are recommitting to Shared Bylines, with each organization contributing $3,000. Thank you!

These generous contributions are bolstered by our crowdfunding campaign i.e. you! Check it out today and help us match last year’s total of $18,000 in scholarship funds. 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.

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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 and employment reporter at the Toronto Star. She previously worked for StarMetro covering everything under the sun, but especially agriculture, human rights and politics, and 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.

NADINE YOUSIF is a journalist at the Toronto Star, currently writing about mental health and adjacent issues. She previously worked at Maclean's Magazine as an assistant editor, and at Star Edmonton as a health, immigration and politics reporter based in Alberta. She is a graduate of Carleton University's School of Journalism and former editor-in-chief of its 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.

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