Sonya Fatah
Assistant Professor
The Creative School
School of Journalism
Toronto, Ontario
sonya.fatah@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 556397
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Sonya Fatah joined Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism in 2017 and is currently an Assistant Professor. She has taught at other journalism schools both in Canada and in India and has taught Feature Writing, Law and Ethics, Social Issues in Journalism, Narrative Writing, Magazin...
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Bio/Research
Sonya Fatah joined Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism in 2017 and is currently an Assistant Professor. She has taught at other journalism schools both in Canada and in India and has taught Feature Writing, Law and Ethics, Social Issues in Journalism, Narrative Writing, Magazine Workshop and Reporting and Writing. Over the last two years, she has co-led the Ryersonian and the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
At Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), Fatah is working on several research projects, including one with Journalists for Human Rights on the impact of journalism training on marginalized communities, specifically remote and urban Indigenous communities in Ontario. She is also working with School of Journalism Associate Professor Asmaa Malik on a larger research project on diversity and the Canadian media. She is the editor-in-chief of J-Source.
Fatah is also working on a research-cum-teaching project on live journalism. That project - stitched! - has been part of a inter-disciplinary FCAD course that explores the development of a narrative project for a live audience. This semester stitched! is part of a Global Campus Studio portfolio and will be in partnership with LSBU’s journalism students in London. Sonya is also the recipient of a FOLiE! grant through a partnership between FCAD’s live entertainment lab and Cirque du Soleil.
Sonya’s narrative feature work has been published in several magazines across the world, including Fortune, Columbia Journalism Review, Caravan, The Groundtruth Project, Walrus magazine and many others. She has also received several grants to pursue narrative projects, including the Centre for Science and the Environment, the Panos-South-Asian Fellowship and the International Women’s Media Fund. She is currently working on a digital project to expand on her latest Walrus piece on the impact of surveillance on life in Akwesasne.
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At Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), Fatah is working on several research projects, including one with Journalists for Human Rights on the impact of journalism training on marginalized communities, specifically remote and urban Indigenous communities in Ontario. She is also working with School of Journalism Associate Professor Asmaa Malik on a larger research project on diversity and the Canadian media. She is the editor-in-chief of J-Source.
Fatah is also working on a research-cum-teaching project on live journalism. That project - stitched! - has been part of a inter-disciplinary FCAD course that explores the development of a narrative project for a live audience. This semester stitched! is part of a Global Campus Studio portfolio and will be in partnership with LSBU’s journalism students in London. Sonya is also the recipient of a FOLiE! grant through a partnership between FCAD’s live entertainment lab and Cirque du Soleil.
Sonya’s narrative feature work has been published in several magazines across the world, including Fortune, Columbia Journalism Review, Caravan, The Groundtruth Project, Walrus magazine and many others. She has also received several grants to pursue narrative projects, including the Centre for Science and the Environment, the Panos-South-Asian Fellowship and the International Women’s Media Fund. She is currently working on a digital project to expand on her latest Walrus piece on the impact of surveillance on life in Akwesasne.
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