Asmaa Malik

Graduate Program Director, Documentary Media, Associate Professor

Asmaa Malik’s research and teaching interests focus on journalism innovation, equity in media and collaborative approaches to graduate supervision. With her research partner, Gavin Adamson, she is the co-recipient of 2020 Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge funding to develop an AI-powered tool that assesses news sourcing and along with her colleague Sonya Fatah she is working on a SSHRC-funded project to create a diversity survey for Canadian newsrooms. She is also the Velma Rogers Research Co-Chair at the School of Journalism. She has held several editorial leadership roles at the Montreal Gazette and Toronto Star and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Walrus and Toronto Star. Her piece on “virtual gated communities” (external link) (external link) and Facebook neighbourhood groups first appeared in the Coach House Books anthology, Subdivided: City-builiding in an Age of Hyperdiversity (external link) (external link) .