research
Live Journalism as an audience-engaged, in-person performance format (and its multiple methodologies), is an effort to reimagine the role of the journalist, of storytelling and of the relationship of journalists/storytellers with audiences/the public. stitched! studio members and other researchers examine aspects of the form and its methodologies through broader philosophical inquiries, case studies and explorations, applying specific disciplinary or inter-disciplinary lenses.
Anchor Points by Anahita Dehbonehie, Griffin McInnes and Aidan Morishita-Miki, Nightswimming, Pure Research, Final Report, 2026
Experimentations in Creative Journalistic Directions, by Sonya Fatah, Canadian Theatre Review, vol 203
Tidelines and Riptides: A Shared Journey by Rosemary Georgeson, John Endo Greenaway, Canadian Theatre Review, Vol.203, pp 9–15
‘News Tending:’ Community Engagement Work in Live Journalism and Living Newspapers, by Jordana Cox, Canadian Theatre Review, Vol.203, pp16–23
Community Gathering: How a New Role Made Me Think Differently about Journalism, by Rochelle Raveendran, Canadian Theatre Review, Vol. 203 pp 24-27
Trust in Performance: Vulnerability as Key Requirement in Acting and Live Journalism by Lisa Cox, Canadian Theatre Review, Vol.203, pp46–52
In the Land of Olives and Vines: A Conversation about Climate Justice as Political Resistance in Palestine by Sheila Reid, Canadian Theatre Review, Vol.203, pp59–63
Living with Drones: An Audience Perspective by Nailah Mahomed, Emily Duchenne, Canadian Theatre Review, Vol.203 pp64–66
Childhood, Interrupted, Stories of Survival from Canada’s Childcare System by Sonya Fatah, Toronto Metropolitan University. Journal contribution. RUBIX. 2025
Reckoning with how we tell Gaza’s Stories by Sonya Fatah, Christin el-Kholy, Laila Hashem, Mariam Shak'a, Diurnus, Hania Noor, Kinza Zafar and Skye Anderson, Camden Theatre blog
Research partners
RESEARCHERS
2026-27 Velma Rogers Researcher, School of Journalism, TMU: Janita Harrison
Janita Harrison is investigating files that document her childhood, youth and adolescence as a ward of the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) from the age of three. An investigation into her own files (retrieved after years of requests), this work is a personal historiography that sheds light on the experience of living in the state’s care system.
2025-2026 MITACS Accelerate/TMF Intern Researcher: Diurnus is a researcher on the Voices of Palestine/stitched! project.
2025-2026 MITACS Accelerate/TMF Intern Researcher: Hania Noor is a researcher on the Voices of Palestine/stitched! project.
2025-26 Velma Rogers Researcher, School of Journalism, TMU; Diurnus
This grant supported the design, development and production elements associated with stitched! productions.
2025-2026 Voices of Palestine Researcher: Christin El-Kholy is an editorial researcher on the Voices of Palestine/stitched! project.
Summer 2025 OSI Social Innovation & Activism Fund Grant Recipient: Hania Noor
This grant supported Hania’s work in producing social media content and production design for Living with Drones.
2025-2026 MITACS Accelerate/TMF Intern Researcher: Laila Hashem is a researcher on the Voices of Palestine/stitched! project.
2025 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant: Grace Henkel
Investigating Sociocide, Burial and Resistance 30 years later
2024 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant: Hania Noor “Childhood, Interrupted” Storytelling through live journalism
2023 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant: Rochelle Raveendran.
Evolving Audience Engagement in Live Journalism: the community gatherer role
2020-2022 stitched! studio researcher: Adam Chen
Researcher exploring the multiple forms of expression and format in live journalism through a qualitative study of practitioners. Some of this work resulted in Adam’s piece in the Canadian Theatre Review’s live 2025 journalism issue, “Journalism Wanderlust: Crisscrossing Disciplines in Search of My Practice.”
