Trish Audette-Longo is a journalist, researcher and award-winning educator focused on journalism futures.

She is an associate professor of journalism in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses about journalism and about how to report, write, produce multimedia stories and manage media organizations.

Trish’s research interests include: alternative and start-up journalism and media; journalism education; and oilsands, petrocultures and climate change media. She is the editor-in-chief of the Canadian journalism studies journal Facts & Frictions.

Trish holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University (2018), an MSc in Media, Communication and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2011) and a Bachelor of Journalism and Minor in History from Carleton University (2004).

Her academic work has appeared in Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, the International Journal of Communication, Resilience, Topia, Development in Practice and the Canadian Journal of Communication. Her doctoral research focused on media and alternative media practices, including how First Nations and Métis communities create and negotiate media in connection to Canada’s oil sands and proposed pipelines. Broadly, she asks questions about the kinds of stories we tell ourselves about oil, energy, and natural resource extraction in Canada.

Trish’s journalism career has included reporting, editing and directing engagement and marketing at National Observer (2017-2018), covering crime, politics and the environment at the Edmonton Journal (2005-2012), covering the education beat at The Standard in St. Catharines, Ont. (2003; 2004-2005), and taking on general assignments for the Vancouver Island News Group in Victoria, B.C. (2002). Her byline has appeared in a cross-section of Postmedia publications, as well as J-Source, Alberta Views, Toronto Star and the Hill Times. 

Growing up in British Columbia’s East Kootenays, Trish always wanted to be a journalist. She spent a lot of time pitching stories to and writing for the Creston Valley Advance, where her mom used to work. When she went to university, she volunteered for Carleton’s independent student newspaper The Charlatan, where she was later national editor. She sat on The Charlatan‘s board of directors as a faculty/professional advisor (2021-24).