About Audrey Carleton

Audrey Carleton

Audrey Carleton is a freelance journalist based in Toronto. She recently completed the Globe and Mail's summer staff program, after getting her start at The McGill Tribune. She enjoys going for long runs and tending to her house plants.

What’s happening to the street beat?

By Audrey Carleton • Business, People, Feature

Adjusting to new COVID-19 realities around physical distancing and an increasingly cashless economy, street papers across Canada are adapting to continue publishing and keep vendors at work

11 months ago

What does it take to run a sustainable news startup?

By Audrey Carleton • Business, Innovation, Field Notes

Canada has seen a sharp increase in the number of media startups in the last few years. Here’s how four have managed to sustain themselves

2 years ago

Broadly’s stock image project fills gaps in media representation of gender diverse communities

By Audrey Carleton • News

The collection is making waves internationally, a resource with potential to help increase visibility and ‘go beyond the clichés’

2 years ago

Here’s why Concordia students are striking against school internship policies

By Audrey Carleton • News, Labour, Education

Following in the footsteps of a legacy of student activism in Québec, students are protesting unpaid labour within and far beyond their university’s journalism program

2 years ago

Telling stories from all directions

By Audrey Carleton • Innovation, Education

This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. It was an overwhelmingly humid summer day in Hong Kong when Adrian Ma, professor at the Ryerson School of Journalism, found himself sitting at a plastic table, crammed in next…

2 years ago

The Pointer launches for Brampton readers

By Audrey Carleton • News, Business, Innovation

“In a city with 700,000 people, roughly, (and) only one (English-language print) media outlet, it leaves a big space for others to come in:” Joel Wittenbel.