Journalism Projects

The house that plastic built

Our world is flooded with cheap subsidized plastic. How did we get here? Part II of an investigation with NBC News.

Collaborators: NBC News, Peter Klein and Jane Lister (UBC)

Inside the factories that make your clothes

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented levels of poverty, indebtedness and exploitative conditions in the garment industry, according to the findings of a joint Toronto Star/Global Reporting Centre investigation in collaboration with researchers from the University of Sheffield.

Collaborators: Genevieve LeBaron (University of Sheffield) and Rob Cribb (The Toronto Star)

Genevieve LeBaronRob Cribb

America's Medical Supply Crisis

The coronavirus has exposed deadly weaknesses in global medical supply chains. Why was the U.S. left scrambling for PPE and other critical medical supplies — and why do problems persist now, months into the crisis? For the past seven months, our team has been interviewing manufacturers and government officials, analyzing records, and tracing key medical supplies along a fragile chain.

Produced by the PBS series FRONTLINE, The Associated Press, and the Global Reporting Centre, America’s Medical Supply Crisis is a joint investigation examining the failures and unheeded warnings of a system at risk. 

Collaborators:
Martha Mendoza (AP), Juliet Linderman (AP), Raney Aronson-Rath (FRONTLINE), Peter Dauvergne (UBC), and Deborah Cowan (UofT) - for a full list of collaborators please visit our credits page.

The Anthropocene Project

We have reached an unprecedented moment in planetary history. Humans now affect the Earth and its processes more than all other natural forces combined. The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth. 

Edward Burtynsky

Seafood from Slaves

An AP investigation helps free slaves in the 21st century

Over the course of 18 months, Associated Press journalists located men held in cages, tracked ships and stalked refrigerated trucks to expose the abusive practices of the fishing industry in Southeast Asia. The reporters’ dogged effort led to the release of more than 2,000 slaves and traced the seafood they caught to supermarkets and pet food providers across the U.S. For this investigation, AP has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The articles are presented here in their entirety.

Martha Mendoza

Fighting the Giant

Samsung workers in South Korea fighting for acknowledgement their illnesses and cancers were caused by the chemicals they worked with. After a decade of fighting Samsung - including 3 years protesting on the sidewalk - the company agreed to a compensation plan and a promise to improve the workplace environment.

Sandra Bartlett