I was selected as a finalist for the CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism for my years-long investigations into the RCMP Tactical Internet Operation Support unit (TIOS).

Read about the nomination here (newswire.ca) and here (thetyee.ca). Watch the award Ceremony hosted by CBC’s Ginella Massa and actor Eric McCormack here.

Main story considered for the award was here:

Co-nominees included Jesse Brown for Canadaland, Sarah Cox for The Narwhal, Maan Alhmidi for “Open Canada”, and Terry Pender for The Record in Waterloo, ON.

The annual award honours Canadian publications that “embody exemplary journalism and have a profound positive impact on the communities they serve.”

Update June 10: The Narwhal won it for their (deserving) dive into Site C.

I co-hosted Canadaland’s SHORTCUTS related to my exclusive Tyee story on new court documents showing Torstar and Postmedia both knew they would close newspapers after their 2017 swap-and-close deal.

I discuss with host Jesse Brown the documents I obtained showing the non-compete agreements the pair discussed and later signed. Listen to the episode HERE.

“Facebook quietly stopped apps from harvesting users’ private data just two weeks ago”

The Telegraph (largest circulation broadsheet in the UK)  got in touch with me and published a piece on the issue I presented to Facebook & wrote about for The Tyee.  Read the full piece HERE (premium content – needs registration).

Excerpt:

Mr Carney alerted Facebook through its bug bounty programme. He was told the taggable API wasn’t a risk because the data collected on friends had been set to public, but it was removed days after.

I was interviewed in This Magazine last month (by Hannah Lee).  Excerpt:

The change, aimed to curb fake news, could leave indie outlets stranded. But it may also promote a move to more meaningful content—the stuff independents are best known for

[Carney] says that Facebook’s popularity, especially with advertisers, has devalued advertising on the Tyee’s site. “We’re not so tied to the fortunes of Facebook, nor do we feel any sort of loyalty to them,” he says. “It’s not likely there’s any love lost when it turns out Facebook will be less and less important for news. I hope this can be a positive development, that it’ll cause people to rethink the way we consume news and aggregate it and curate it… I think there’s a potential for this to be a positive in the industry for people to do something about it.”

Read the full piece @ THIS magazine