Audio Journalism Fellowship Program
Immerse yourself inside Canadaland’s newsroom for four months and create exceptional audio journalism. Grow your skills while taking your project from pitch to publication.
The Canadaland Audio Journalism Fellowship is a paid program offering two early-career audio journalists a four-month placement in Canadaland’s newsroom. During this self-directed opportunity, Fellows will work alongside our team of seasoned audio storytelling professionals. Each successful applicant will research, report, script, and produce an audio piece from start to finish with some support from our newsroom team.
We are looking to recruit and place two third- or fourth-year undergraduate or masters students or new-to-audio journalists who have a deep interest in telling stories with sound and who have a story or project they are keen to report. This 16-week part-time fellowship at Canadaland’s Toronto office will take place from late-August to mid-December 2026. Over that time, fellows will each complete a project of 20-30 minutes in length that could be published on the Canadaland network.
Applications for the Fall 2026 program are open from May 28 until June 30.
Canadaland’s Audio Journalism Fellowship Program Application Requirements
2025 Audio Fellows
Originally hailing from Kingston, ON, Kallan spent her formative years in Toronto before moving to B.C. where she studied journalism at the University of British Columbia. She is an award-nominated magazine freelancer with bylines in the CBC, The Wren, Macleans, and Canadian Geographic, to name a few.
Listen now to her story: The Fantasia Cold Case
Shaistha Khan
Shaistha is a Toronto-based journalist and writer-editor with a global outlook. She's lived and reported from six countries, with Canada being her latest home base. You can find her bylines in places like BBC Travel, Al Jazeera, Teen Vogue, USA Today, TRT World, Vogue Arabia, National Geographic Traveller UK, Travel + Leisure, and more. Beyond journalism, she works with tourism boards, hospitality brands, and higher education clients to create marketing content.
2024 Audio Fellows
Mia is an audio producer and writer living and working in Toronto/Tkaranto. She hosted “Add This To Your Playlist” for CJTM 1280 AM and worked as an associate producer with “Lead Podcasting” — on the show Change Leadership Conversations. She was also the sound designer and mixer for season 2 of the podcast “We Met U When”. At Canadaland, she’s looking forward to picking up new technical skills and toeing the line between humility and wit.
Listen now to her story: The Painful Truth About IUDs
Leora is a multimedia journalist and college radio veteran. She has produced The Expanding Economics Podcast, helped investigate a Nazi gold scandal, and hosted an award-winning morning talk show for CJLO radio in Montreal. At Canadaland she hopes to learn where to find sharp and compelling guests, and figure out which pulses to keep her finger on.
Listen now to her story: Waste Management: Sh*t’s Complicated