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
B.C. has a growing mine waste problem. The risks could be catastrophic
As the province permits mines to hold more tailings slurry behind ever-growing dams, a new...
How digital prospectors are staking First Nations land and private property in B.C.
The province saw a 70 per cent increase in land staked the year the mineral...