About us
Magda Konieczna is beginning a PhD in journalism at the University of Wisconsin this fall, focusing on local news and science reporting.
She has been a staff writer and freelancer at more than a dozen Canadian publications, from weeklies to daily newspapers, magazines, and journals, and has been published in Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.
She won the 2007 Ontario Newspaper Award for municipal affairs reporting, and was nominated for National and Ontario newspaper awards in 2006. She was also a finalist in the Canadian Blog Awards in 2008. She has written long-form journalism about Guelph’s garbage; the extraordinary journey of the patriarch of a local development company; and the history of a hotly disputed but tremendously dilapidated shoe workshop.
Her academic writing has involved a qualitative study about why a particular health care delivery model did not gain traction in the U.S., and a content analysis of health information on the internet.
Ryan Chen-Wing has extensive experience writing, reporting and experimenting with the delivery of news. He founded a not-for-profit news organization as a university student and wrote a quarter million words covering university issues. He broke the story of a controversial deal between Microsoft and the University of Waterloo, a story that was later written about by news media around the world.
He is a copy editor at the Waterloo Region Record, and has written stories and created news videos for the Toronto Star, the Record and for therecord.com.