Magda Konieczna, PhD

Magda Konieczna is associate professor of journalism, and founder and co-director of Documenters Canada, which trains and pays community members to document public meetings. We have a Toronto site, in partnership with The Green Line, and a Montreal site, in partnership with Pivot. We are also conducting research on community members' roles in decision-making, and would love to chat with you if that's something you're interested in as well.

She loves talking with students about their journalistic endeavours, both practical and theoretical, and teaches and advises in both areas. 

JOUR 398, Hyperlocal Journalism

JOUR 208, Intermediate reporting

JOUR 205, Principles of Journalistic Thought and Practice

JOUR 605, Digital Innovation in Journalism

Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Konieczna, M. and Girardin, B. (2024). Missed opportunitiesfor community engagement: An examination of the government-funded LocalJournalism Initiative. Facts and Frictions.

Konieczna, M. and Santa Maria, E. (2023). ‘I can’t beneutral or centrist in a debate over my own humanity’: A study of objectivityand journalistic edge cases. Journalism Studies, 24(15), 1839-1856.

Buozis, M. and Konieczna, M. (2021). Conservative newsnonprofits: Claiming Legitimacy Without Transparency. Journalism: Theory,Practice and Criticism, 24(6), 1211-1231.

Konieczna, M. (2020). Reimagining Newsroom Collaboration:How two European news nonprofits are inviting citizens in. Journalism Practice, 14(5), 592-607. 

Konieczna, M. (2020). The collaboration stepladder:How one organization built a solid foundation for a community-focused cross-newsroom collaboration. Journalism Studies, 21(6), 802-819. 

Konieczna, M. (2020). Entrepreneurship versus philanthropy:can the market fund innovation in the news sector? Journal of Media Business Studies, 17(2), 132-147.