Sharon J. Riley
Managing editor
@sharonjriley 
Sharon is an award-winning journalist based in Edmonton. Her writing has also been published by The Walrus, Harper’s, The Tyee and Maisonneuve, among others. Her work for The Narwhal has been nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award and a Digital Publishing Award. She was also named a finalist in the 2017 National Magazine Awards' Best New Magazine Writer category, was a 2017 recipient of the Access Copyright Foundation's Marian Hebb Research Grant for literary arts and won the Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism in 2020. Sharon was born and raised in rural Alberta, and if she's not at her computer she's probably in the Rockies with her family.
Stories by Sharon J. Riley
218 requests: another year in the fight for government transparency
3 min. readGovernments don’t make it easy to access documents they’d prefer to keep out of the...
When the cheques stop coming
In rural Alberta, landowners stopped receiving lease payments from an oil and gas company called...
The former head of Canada’s busiest national park reflects on ‘dark times’ and what to do about them
‘When people organize their lives around matters of principle, they become unstoppable,’ Alberta nature writer...
When a story sends waves across Alberta politics
Prairies reporter Drew Anderson asked Alberta Premier Danielle Smith a question — with some salty...
Back to (wildfire) school
Summer vacations are wrapping up, but wildfire season isn’t. As my kid starts kindergarten, I’m...
Meet Will Pearson, a new assistant editor at The Narwhal
What do you get when you combine a love of local, non-profit news with a...
Meet Paloma Pacheco, a new assistant editor at The Narwhal
Who’s an experienced journalist with one heck of a keen eye on our stories these...
Alberta spent $30M on unpaid land rent for delinquent oil and gas companies in 2024
When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay their land rent, the...
The Narwhal picks up National Magazine Award nomination for Amber Bracken’s oilsands photojournalism
Bracken was recognized for intimate portraits of residents of Fort Chipewyan, Alta., who told her...
