Jessica Johnson is an award-winning Canadian journalist and a media scholar. From 2023 to 2025, she was a senior fellow at McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy, where she led the national research project “What Should the CBC Be?”. From 2017 to 2023, she served as editor-in-chief of The Walrus, one of Canada’s few non-profit publications. Jessica teaches journalism and media studies as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. Her essays, columns and reviews appear in the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, the Guardian, and Maclean’s as well as in the forthcoming anthology “Elbows Up: Canadian Voices of Resilience and Resistance” (McClelland & Stewart, October 2025.)
