Angela Misri
Assistant professor (Journalism and professional writing, n.e.c.; Journalism studies; Social impacts of artificial intelligence; Ethics in technology (e.g., digital, artificial intelligence))
Toronto, ON
Angela Misri is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University and co-director of the Local News Research Project. A former Digital Director at The Walrus and longtime CBC journalist, Misri brings two decades of professional experience to her research into emerging technologies and journalism ethics. Her recent work examines the integration of generative artificial intelligence into newsrooms and its ethical implications, as well as the influence of AI voice cloning on the integrity and trustworthiness of factual news podcasting.
Her peer-reviewed publications include “There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom (Digital Journalism, 2025), which explores how working journalists navigate ethical tensions while adopting AI tools in their reporting, and Poisoning an Already Poisoned Well (AI & Society, 2024), which interrogates the epistemological risks of protecting original content by masking the work for AI scrapers and also potentially 'fooling' the human eye. Misri also contributes to the broader conversation on pedagogy and practice through work such as Newsroom Notes (Facts and Frictions, 2023), which reflects on the evolving role of newsroom-based education in preparing students for a rapidly changing media landscape.
Misri also 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.