Al Jazeera Journalism Review

Broadcaster and Producer.
Samira Mohyeddin is a multi-award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and producer with extensive experience in public media. For nearly a decade, she was a producer at CBC Radio’s national flagship current affairs programme The Current, and also served as a host for CBC Podcasts and guest co-host on As It Happens.
In 2023, she founded On The Line Media, an independent media company committed to amplifying the voices most needed to help audiences make sense of the world. The company’s work centres on intimate storytelling, critical conversations, and informed analysis.
Her academic background includes a Master of Arts in Gender and Modern Middle Eastern History from the University of Toronto, as well as a postgraduate journalism degree from Centennial College’s Story Arts Centre. She is also a trained Shakespearean actor and graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and has completed Genocide Studies at the Zoryan Institute.
Bringing together expertise in journalism, theatre, human rights, and global politics, she offers a distinctive and deeply engaged perspective on the issues that shape contemporary life in Canada and beyond. She is currently the 2024–2025 Journalism Fellow at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
Writer’s Articles
Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine: A Call to Name the Killer, Not Just the Crime
How many journalists have to be killed before we name the killer? What does press freedom mean if it excludes Palestinians? In its latest strike, Israel killed an entire Al Jazeera news crew in Gaza—part of a systematic campaign to silence the last witnesses to its crimes. Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine (CJJP) condemns this massacre and calls on the Canadian government to end its complicity, uphold international law, and demand full accountability. This is not collateral damage. This is the targeted erasure of truth.