Media
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Global fact-check network faces biggest challenge ever
Trustworthy journalism is an essential service that matters more than ever
Biography
Kathy English is a veteran journalist and current chair of the board of the Canadian Journalism Foundation. She served as public editor of the Toronto Star from 2007 to 2020, when she stepped down from the role of adjudicating audience complaints and upholding transparency and accountability standards across all platforms of Torstar Corp’s daily and community news organizations. She was a 2020/2021 journalism fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Global Journalism at University of Oxford. Her research focussed on journalism’s crisis of trust and its longstanding diversity failures. English was a tenured faculty member at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism from 1989-1999. In 2018, she received Western University’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Asper Teaching Fellowship, where she devised a graduate course on digital media literacy. English holds a Master’s degree in Canadian history from Western University with a thesis focus on the 20th century demise of family ownership of Canadian newspapers. She has reported and edited for six Canadian daily newspapers and launched websites for two Canadian media companies: Transcontinental and SunMedia. She also led the 2006 Canadian launch of BabyCentre.ca, for the San Francisco-based BabyCenter, a leading global parenting and pregnancy site.