2026 Jury

Desmond Brown – Chair

Real Estate Agent, Life In The 6ix, RE/MAX Hallmark Realty Ltd.; Former Reporter, CTV, National Post, Toronto Star

Nathan Downer 

Television Journalist and Co-Anchor of CTV News at Noon and CTV News at Six

David Thurton

Senior reporter in CBC’s Parliamentary Bureau

Rob Cribb

Investigative Journalist, Toronto Star; Founder and Director, The Investigative Journalism Bureau at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health

 

Melissa Stasiuk

Head of Newsroom Development, The Globe and Mail

Sophia Skopelitis

Director, Content Creator Talent & People Resources, Bell Media

Tina Verma

Inclusion Strategy Lead for CBC News