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
‘Really good content’ from the TC tower
When a story keeps unravelling, it takes two newsletters to paint the whole picture. This...
Behind The Narwhal’s reporting on a leaked TC Energy recording
Here’s how we went about investigating claims made by an executive working for Coastal GasLink’s...
‘I think it’s shameless’
Our investigations on industry are drawing attention from lobbyists and MPs alike — and we...
Flames, forests and hope
From coast to coast, Indigenous-led efforts are underway to save our remaining wilderness. We bring...
‘We’re off to a fast start’: wildfire season is here
Northwest B.C. reporter Matt Simmons was working away on a story about proactive solutions to...
Pause. What’s happening in Alberta?
We got a hold of docs that tell us about Alberta’s pause on renewables. They...
Where are the moose?
On the land looking for moose — and one nation’s efforts to bring them back....
Minor miners, where’ll we find’er?
The mining industry has a bit of a reputation problem, and it's getting in the...
Meet Atenas Contreras, The Narwhal’s director of operations and finance
4 min. readA nerd about numbers, organizing things and playing board games — have we been blessed...