Full-time or part-time reporting:
New Canadian Media (NCM) has full-time or part-time reporting opportunities for immigrant writers based anywhere in Canada, particularly smaller communities with fewer newcomers.
These roles will require, in general: three bylined stories per week, active participation in editorial news meetings, regular pitches, strong original reporting (including interviews and sourcing), fast and reliable turnaround on deadline and breaking news stories, and a collaborative approach to editing and revisions. Reporters will be encouraged to focus on one area of professional development over the next year.
Writers will be expected to work in Google Docs, provide supporting links and source materials where relevant, include proper attribution and basic fact-checking notes, and submit clean copy with headlines, photo suggestions, and caption details when available. Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada and available to take on substantial time commitments.
Interested? Please fill out this Google Form.
Freelance opportunities:
NCM reports on immigration, diversity, and the lived realities of newcomers and immigrant communities. We’re building a steady pool of highly productive, accurate, collaborative freelance journalists for these beats:
- Women newcomers: Changed lives — How immigration and the policies that shape it are transforming immigrant women’s lives, from barriers and setbacks to opportunities and success.
- Diaspora Politics: The push and pull — How political parties and community leaders engage immigrant communities, and how “ethnic vote” strategies shape participation, polarization, and power.
- An altered landscape: Impact of immigration on local communities — On-the-ground coverage of how rapid demographic change is reshaping Canadian towns and cities socially, culturally, and economically.
- Immigration Policy: Who gets in? — Clear, critical reporting on federal and provincial immigration decisions and reforms, and how they affect newcomers and communities in real time.
- Foreign Credentials — Why skilled newcomers still struggle to get credentials recognized, and where progress is being made or blocked across key professions and industries.
Preference will be given to immigrant reporters.
Interested? Please fill out this Google Form.
George brings 30 years of writing and newsroom management experience to New Canadian Media. He began his journalism career with The Times of India in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), followed by stints at the Khaleej Times in Dubai and as managing editor of The Peninsula in Qatar. A journalist with high ethical standards, George won the prestigious Nieman scholarship at Harvard University (1994-95), and more recently, pursued a Master’s in Journalism at Carleton University (2004).