Angela Misri is an assistant professor in TMU’s School of Journalism and a co-director of the Local News Research Project. Her research focuses on the use of AI to create content, including journalism products. She has presented at several conferences, including the Canadian Communications Association conference (2025, 2024), ReImagining Political Journalism (2024), JRP conference (2023) and Unstable Diffusions conference (2023). Her academic work has been published in Digital Journalism, Facts & Frictions and AI & Society.
Misri is an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she runs the newsroom for the student masthead in the School of Journalism at TMU — teaching the next generation how to report on their communities. She writes for many different media groups including The Globe and Mail, CBC, The Walrus, Global TV, and is the author of seven fiction novels.
Published/Research
Misri, A., Blanchett, N., & Lindgren, A. (2025). “There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom. Digital Journalism, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2495693
Misri, A. (2024). Poisoning an already poisoned well. AI & Society. doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01876-5
Misri, A. (2023). Newsroom Notes. Facts and Frictions: Emerging Debates, Pedagogies and Practices in Journalism Education, 3 (1), 135-138. doi: 10.22215/ff/v3.i1.15
Windhorst, U., Kirmayer, D., Soibelman, F., Misri, A., & Rose, R. A. (1996). Effects of neurochemically excited group III–IV muscle afferents on motoneuron afterhyperpolarization. Neuroscience, 76(3), 915–929. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0306-4522(96)00396-x
May 2023: AI Ethics paper submitted for publication, at the 2023 JRP Conference and Montreal Unstable Diffusions conference in May 2023
On the Editorial Board for April Lindgren’s News for the Data Hub project: https://localnewsdatahub.ca/editorial-team/
Member of Nicole Blanchett’s XJO projects: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15QQAjjhVrv8HjMSLJqxVLz_IkYvMx_icsLWzqD2YXeo/edi
In the News
Host of Canadian Time Machine podcast (2023, 2024, 2025)
Interviewed by CBC about Google’s new AI Video tool, VEO 3: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/google-ai-videos-1.7545853
Interviewed by The Toronto Star about errors in an AI-generated ‘Summer Reading List’
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/readers-outraged-after-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-featuring-fake-novels-appears-in-u-s/article_6339e944-4e0f-40cb-9657-9a6daad72d0d.html
We Don’t Need Threads. We Need a Break – The Walrus
Interview on Global News about How ChatGPT is impacting learning
Why Are There Still So Few Women Leaders in Politics? – The Walrus
Ask No questions about Samosas – Chatelaine
Interview with CBC Yukon on writers and AI technology
Interview with Antony Robart from Global TV about AI and journalism
Interviewed by Trish Longo about AI and education for JSource (Nov 4., 2023)
Interviewed for Magnet article on AI (Aug 28, 2023)
Interviewed for CBC Ottawa TV on AI & Journalism (Aug. 18, 2023)