The Toronto Advantage
Toronto is a unique incubator for emerging leaders from anywhere in the world who wish to become global journalists.
The Toronto Advantage
After New York City and London, Toronto is one of the English-speaking world’s great media centres—a wellspring of talent to teach journalism
and entrepreneurship:
- Toronto is home to four national broadcasters, more than 20 national cable channels, four major newspapers, two national general-interest magazines, more than 100 national niche, trade, and ethnic publications. It is also corporate headquarters for seven national news organizations.
- Toronto is one of North America’s top centres for mobile-application development. Many of these applications serve as platforms for new models of journalism and thus add to Toronto’s importance as a hub for media innovation.
Roughly 50% of Torontonians were born abroad; for New York and London that figure is around 30%. That makes Toronto the democratic world’s most globally diverse city, a hothouse for global news judgment, and a comfortable home-base for a global cohort of Fellows.
The University of Toronto Advantage
The University of Toronto is one of the world’s leading research-intensive universities with a more diverse portfolio of academic strengths than most of its peers. This makes us a powerful intellectual community for Fellows reporting on any number of disciplines:
- U of T consistently ranks fourth in the world for research output and impact.
- In an annual survey of 10,000 academics by the UK’s Times Higher Education—QS, U of T is consistently one of the only universities in the world ranked in the top 20 for not one but all five major academic disciplines: Engineering, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Natural Sciences.
- The Munk School of Global Affairs in the University of Toronto is one of the world’s most innovative centres for research and teaching in
global affairs. - The University of Toronto, through Massey College, is also host to the Canadian Journalism Fellowships—the country’s most prestigious fellowship for mid-career journalists
