Jagg Carr-Locke

Teacher. Journalist. Cat person. Dedicated follower of Shinrin-Yoku and Liverpool Football Club.

Jagg Carr-Locke has had dual careers in journalism and education for more than 30 years.  She began her academic journey in Montreal, attaining her undergraduate degree in journalism and history from Concordia University. She began work on her graduate degree at McGill, but moved to Toronto with the CBC and finished her M.A. in political science at the University of Toronto.  Her first job in journalism was as regional reporter with CBC Radio in Montreal. In Toronto she became a writer and editor in the National Radio Newsroom at CBC Toronto, before moving to television and work as writer, producer, and editor at CBC Newsworld and The National. While hard news formed the backbone of her CBC career, Jagg also worked outside public broadcasting, as a daily segment producer at the Discovery Channel.

Jagg’s love of news competes with her love of teaching for top spot in her professional heart, so she finds herself very happily at the confluence of the two, in the Ryerson School of Journalism. She has been on faculty since the turn of the new century, teaching various courses in broadcast news at both introductory and senior levels, and since 2014 overseeing the undergraduate internship program. In 2020-21 she is also teaching sections in JRN103-104.