Francesca Fionda
Director of newsroom development
Francesca Fionda is The Narwhal’s director of newsroom development, a role she took on after working as our mining reporter for almost two years. Since graduating from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, she’s worked on investigative teams with the three major news broadcasters across Canada and produced meaningful journalism at start-ups and local journalism outfits in her home-province of B.C. Francesca has a deep love for research and data journalism. She was recently awarded the first ever Lieutenant Governor’s BC Journalism Fellowship for an in-depth project looking at the challenges of people who have been evacuated because of climate disasters.
Stories by Francesca Fionda
Uncovering the history of Nova Scotia’s Black miners
7 min. readA researcher in Canada's Atlantic region uncovers ‘striking’ similarities between the historic treatment of Black...
The little fern that could move a mine
A federal emergency order could stop a proposed open-pit mine near Rossland, B.C., but the...
A mineral rush and a hiring crisis: Canadian mining’s ‘dirty’ image is scaring off recruits
Pick axes and coal dust aren’t selling a new generation on jobs in mining. Can...
Costs to clean up Teck’s B.C. coal mines are billions higher than previously thought: report
A new report finds the price tag to treat water contaminated with selenium in the...
Collab alert: behind our mining investigation with The Globe and Mail
In this week’s newsletter, mining reporter Francesca Fionda talks about a story idea that brought...
British Columbia’s multimillion-dollar mining problem
The true cost of cleaning up mine pollution in B.C. is growing, an investigation by...
Access denied: trying to get into Canada’s ‘premier’ pro-coal gathering
The Narwhal was not given a media pass to the Coal Association of Canada's conference,...
What will B.C. do when disaster strikes again?
Experts weigh in on proposed changes to province's decades-old emergency legislation
Mineral claims require First Nations consultation, B.C. Supreme Court rules
The decision transforms the province’s mineral rights regime, which previously allowed almost anyone to stake...
