Sharon Nadeem is an award-winning multimedia journalist who works as a producer and head of partnerships at the Global Reporting Centre, based at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in long-form reporting on complex topics like housing, supply chains, corruption and migration. Her in-depth work, primarily on documentaries and podcasts, can be found in major media outlets including PBS FRONTLINE, PRX, BBC News, Globe and Mail, The Walrus, CBC, Jakarta Post, Yukon News and Edmonton Journal.

Sharon works closely with the communities she reports on. Her latest project, State of Play, uses the empowerment journalism model, pioneered by the Global Reporting Centre that aims to flip the journalist/source power dynamic and foster community-driven narratives and storytellers. The project produced in partnership with PRX looks at how the Olympics impacts the most vulnerable residents in the host cities of Paris, Los Angeles and Vancouver. Her previous work in partnership with the Associated Press and PBS FRONTLINE on the collapse of medical supply chains during COVID-19 won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the top investigative journalism prize in North America.

Sharon graduated from UBC’s School of Journalism in 2018 where she was a fellow of the International Reporting Program (IRP) and Reporting in Indigenous Communities class where she reported on the urban Indigenous community in Vancouver. For IRP, she reported on Afghan refugees in Turkey during the migration crisis in Europe. After graduating, she worked at The Walrus where she gained expertise in fact-checking and continues to conduct fact-checking seminars in various courses at the School of Journalism, Writing and Media.

Sharon is a first-generation settler of Indian ancestry who grew up in the Middle East. She lives, reports and teaches on the the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

• Journalism
• Indigenous Journalism
• Media Ethics