Trish Audette-Longo

Biography

Trish Audette-Longo teaches digital journalism and reporting, and she is the editor-in-chief of Canada’s only journalism studies journal, Facts & Frictions / Faits et frictions, an open-access, bilingual, online publication dedicated to critical exploration of and engagement with journalism practice, education and emerging challenges. Trish holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University, an MSc in Media, Communication and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University.

She covered the environment, politics and crime beats for The Edmonton Journal and managed digital engagement for National Observer. Her reporting has appeared in a cross-section of Postmedia publications, J-Source, Alberta Views, and the Hill Times, and her academic work has been published in Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, the International Journal of Communication, Resilience, Topia, Development in Practice and the Canadian Journal of Communication.

Trish’s research interests include: digital, start-up and alternative journalism and media; journalism education; climate change and petroculture studies. She is currently working on a research project supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2024). In 2023 she received a New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award at Carleton University, and in 2022 she received the Faculty of Public Affairs Teaching Fellowship Excellence Award. With Prof. Nana aba Duncan, she is the co-founder and co-coordinator of the Annual Mary Ann Shadd Cary Lecture Series: Voices of Change in Canadian Journalism.