Ivor Shapiro

Ivor Shapiro, emeritus professor and former chair of the School of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University, is now senior fellow of the Centre for Free Expression (cfe.torontomu.ca) and principal investigator of an international, interdisciplinary study of “essential standards” for news reporting for Centre d’études sur les médias at Laval University. 

He has taught media law and ethics, his scholarship on journalists’ professional identity and practice has been published in leading international journals and collections, and he is an editorial board member of Journalism Studies. 

Previous roles have included chair of the ethics advisory committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists, principal investigator for Canada of the Worlds of Journalism Study, founding editor of J-Source.ca, managing editor of Chatelaine magazine, and contributing editor of Saturday Night. His latest book is The Disputed Freedoms of a Disrupted Press (Routledge, 2024)