Karan Saxena
Audience Engagement Editor
Karan Saxena is an immigrant settler living on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territories. Karan is The Narwhal’s audience engagement editor, with a focus on the intersections of journalism and community-building. A recent graduate from UBC’s Master of Journalism program, Karan worked at 5X Press as an associate editor expanding the reach of the publication’s newsletter — something he is a nerd about — and was the audience engagement intern at Xtra Magazine in 2021. Karan finds it hard to shut up about French pop music, the fashion industry, the politics of climate change, environmental racism and Lorde.
Stories by Karan Saxena
Buried history: Black miners in Canada’s Atlantic region
‘This doesn’t happen by accident,’ says former mining reporter Francesca Fionda in our latest newsletter
If a tree falls in a private forest …
In the drought-stricken Kootenays, residents of Wynndel, B.C., worry about the impact of unchecked logging...
The plan to take the chemicals out of Chemical Valley
Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the federal government will work together on a pilot project to...
A climate activist is facing deportation from Canada — again
8 min. readIf Zain Haq is forced to leave, Canada could become one of the first countries...
A wish upon a star
In this week’s newsletter, we tell you about one west coast First Nation’s plans to...
The dirt on the deciduous dead
In this week’s newsletter, we chat with B.C. biodiversity reporter Ainslie Cruickshank about British Columbia’s...
Dive deep with 5 silly narwhal cartoons
How many narwhals does it take to make a pun about journalism? We asked cartoonist...
Alberta loses 3-year battle to keep names of alleged oilsands rule-breakers a secret
We filed an official complaint and consulted a lawyer to get the names of oilsands...
It’s not like flipping a switch
A decade ago, Ontario stopped burning coal for power. Could past lessons apply to a...
