Asmaa Malik’s research and teaching interests focus on journalism innovation, equity in media and collaborative approaches to graduate supervision. With her research partner, Gavin Adamson, she is the co-recipient of 2020 Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge funding to develop an AI-powered tool that assesses news sourcing and along with her colleague Sonya Fatah she is working on a SSHRC-funded project to create a diversity survey for Canadian newsrooms. She is also the Velma Rogers Research Co-Chair at the School of Journalism. She has held several editorial leadership roles at the Montreal Gazette and Toronto Star and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Walrus and Toronto Star. Her piece on “virtual gated communities” and Facebook neighbourhood groups first appeared in the Coach House Books anthology, Subdivided: City-builiding in an Age of Hyperdiversity.
Published
2018
Malik, Asmaa. (2018). Towards an algorithmic journalism assessment tool: Accounting for source diversity in local digital news. In The Future of Local News: Research and Reflections. (Academic paper). Read here.
2017
Malik, Asmaa. (2017, July 13). The five whys for diversity in a startup. Teaching Media Entrepreneurship. (Article). Read here.
Malik, Asmaa and Ivor Shapiro. (2017). “What’s Digital? What’s Journalism?” The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. ed. Bob Franklin and Scott Eldridge II. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis.
Malik, Asmaa. (July 13, 2017). “The Five Whys for Diversity in a Startup.” Teaching Media Entrepreneurship. Read here.
2016
Malik, Asmaa. (April 28, 2016). “Neighbourhood Watch.” The Walrus (excerpt). Read here.
Malik, Asmaa. (2016) “Neighbourhood Watch: Racial profiling and virtual gated communities” Subdivided: City-building in an age of hyper-diversity eds. Pitter, Jay., and Lorinc, John. (Coach House Press)
2015
Malik, Asmaa. 2015. Do I really belong in ‘inclusive’ Toronto? Toronto Star. May 14. Available here.
Malik, Asmaa. 2015. Twitter fuels important conversation on race. Toronto Star. June 28.
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In the News
2018
Betakit: April 9, 2018. “Facebook and the DMZ announce winners of Digital News Innovation Challenge” quotes Asmaa Malik. Click to read.
2017
Canada NewsWire (Press Release): Dec. 15, 2017. “Yes, journalism has a future! JHR helps ignite innovative journalism in Africa” quotes Asmaa Malik about the JAMLAB accelerator project. Click to read.
The Eyeopener: Dec. 1, 2017. “Syrian refugees are not well represented in the media, Rye study says” quotes Asmaa Malik and Kamal Al-Solaylee. Click to read
“JHR-Ryerson, Wits Universities Teaming Up For Journalism Lab Modeled After FrontPageAfrica” mentions Asmaa Malik, who is working to develop curriculum for the program with her colleagues at Wits. Click to read.
2016
J-Source: July 6, 2016
“Ryerson reporting project on Truth and Reconciliation makes waves” about Asmaa Malik and her master students’ work on telling the stories of Indigenous people. Click to read.
2015
J-Source: Nov. 26, 2015
Republished RJRC story about new app developed by instructors Asmaa Malik and Gavin Adamson. Click to read.
CBCRadio q with Shadrach Kabango: Oct. 16, 2015
Discussion with Asmaa Malik on the implications of Conde Naste’s purchase of Pitchfork. Click to listen.
CBCRadio q with Shadrach Kabango: Oct. 16, 2015
Discussion with Asmaa Malik on the implications of Conde Naste’s purchase of Pitchfork. Click to listen.
Toronto Star: May 14, 2015
“Do I really belong in ‘inclusive’ Toronto?” op-ed written by Asmaa Malik. Click to read.
2014
CBC’s Q, March 6, 2014
Asmaa Malik participated on Q’s media panel.