Sharon J. Riley
Managing editor
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
Meet Paloma Pacheco, a new assistant editor at The Narwhal
6 min. readWho’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...
A deep and tangled web in Alberta
In this week’s newsletter, we talk about how Prairies reporter Drew Anderson tracked down the...
How U.S. steel tariffs could impact Canadian coal mines
The majority of coal produced in Canada is used to make steel, leaving the industry...
What on earth is potash? A massive Canadian export in the eye of the U.S. tariff storm
As tariff talks increasingly focus on Canada’s giant potash supply and its role in U.S....
This year’s most memorable photos from the Canadian Prairies
Photojournalists share behind-the-scenes reflections on some of their favourite photographs for The Narwhal in 2024
Musician Corb Lund on Alberta coal mines: ‘they’re going to ruin our ground water’Â
The country and western singer-songwriter on the insights that ranchers, like his late grandfather, can...
Wind energy? These rural Albertans aren’t buying it
Some neighbours of a proposed wind farm development say they felt powerless in negotiations with...
