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About the Role
The Toronto Star is seeking a skilled journalist to cover the urgent and consequential housing beat. This reporter will explore affordability, development, tenant rights, municipal policy, and the impact of economic factors on housing, producing agenda-setting, accurate journalism for Star readers.
Responsibilities
- Break and develop housing news across a broad range of topics including affordability, development, tenant rights, municipal policy, the rental market, real estate trends, and the intersection of housing with broader economic and social issues.
- Generate original story ideas rooted in strong sourcing, data literacy, and a genuine understanding of how housing issues affect real people across the GTA and Ontario.
- Build and maintain a deep network of sources, including city planners, developers, tenant advocates, municipal politicians, real estate economists, renters, buyers, and industry insiders.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues on the Business and Housing team, as well as the visuals, multimedia, and audience teams, to produce ambitious multi-platform storytelling.
- Produce a mix of daily news and longer-form enterprise and feature work, with strong written copy delivered accurately on deadline.
- Contribute ideas and content for video, audio, and digital formats in collaboration with multimedia colleagues.
- Use data, public records, and access-to-information requests to deepen and differentiate reporting.
- Maintain the Toronto Star's rigorous journalistic standards in all coverage.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a journalist at a daily news organization, with a track record of strong, original reporting.
- Demonstrated knowledge of or experience covering housing, real estate, urban affairs, municipal politics, or related beats — or a clear and compelling case for how your reporting experience translates.
- Exceptional news judgment, writing skills, and the ability to tell complex stories in ways that are clear, compelling, and relevant to a broad readership.
- Strong source-building skills and the ability to work contacts across government, industry, advocacy groups, and affected communities.
- Experience with data journalism, public records research, and access-to-information requests — or a willingness to develop these skills.
- The ability to generate a steady stream of original, ambitious story ideas and see them through from pitch to publication.
- A self-starter mentality — able to manage multiple stories simultaneously, work independently, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced newsroom.
- Comfort with digital storytelling and an understanding of how audiences consume journalism across platforms.
- Familiarity with CP style and a commitment to accuracy and fairness.
- A deep understanding of the GTA, its communities, and the issues that matter most to people who live and work here.
- A demonstrated commitment to the Torstar values of collaboration, focus, selflessness, agility, and results.
Skills
- Journalism
- Reporting
- Storytelling
- Source building
- Data journalism
- Public records research
- Access-to-information requests
- Digital storytelling
- CP style
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Journalist
Salary/Compensations
- $61,153.45 - $96,697.60
About the Company
- Torstar Corporation is a progressive media organization with a long, proud history in newspapers and a passion for capitalizing on the fluid world of digital and mobile media.
- Torstar’s vision for success is driven by a deep customer-centric obsession, continued journalistic excellence, advanced data-driven competency and a culture that is selfless, focused, agile, collaborative and results driven.
Equal Opportunity
- We strive to be a leader in building and cultivating an employee community framed around fairness, support and opportunity.
- We believe that what makes us different, makes a difference.
- And as a team, the diversity of our backgrounds, interests and experiences is what enriches our work, and our workplaces.
- We welcome all, and we strive for an inclusive culture that allows individual growth and shared success.
- We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process ensuring equal access to employment opportunities for candidates, including persons with disabilities.
- In compliance with Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and Ontario Human Rights Code we will endeavour to provide accommodation to persons with disabilities in the recruitment process upon request.
- If you are selected for an interview and you require accommodation due to a disability during the recruitment process, please notify the hiring manager upon scheduling the interview of your requirements.