Dawn Paley

Dawn Paley is a journalist from Vancouver, BC (Coast Salish territories).

She’s written for magazines and newspapers in Canada and the US, including the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, BC Business Magazine, The Nation, the Georgia Straight, Briarpatch, NACLA Reports, This Magazine and Upside Down World.

Her work in radio and television has been featured on Democracy Now!, Free Speech Radio News, and CBC Radio.

Fluent in Spanish and French, Dawn has reported on the extractive industries, trade, and organized crime from off the map hotspots throughout the Americas. Over the past few years, she’s filed from southwest Colombia, Guatemala, pre- and post-coup Honduras, and northeast Mexico.

Dawn is a contributing editor with The Dominion, Canada’s grassroots newsmagazine, and a co-founder of the Vancouver Media Co-op. She regularly teaches community journalism workshops and recently taught an online journalism course for the Alliance for Global Justice.

In 2008, Dawn worked as an assistant producer on the award winning feature documentary Under Rich Earth, shot in the Intag region of Ecuador.

In 2010, Dawn completed her Masters in Journalism at the University of British Columbia. Her thesis project proposes that journalists should study transnational theory as a prerequisite for responsible foreign correspondence, and examines the formation and evolution of the Honduran elite in relation to the 2009 coup d’etat as a case study.

In addition, she has worked as a researcher for clients including MiningWatch Canada, Wide Open Exposure and Naomi Klein.

Dawn can be reached by email at dawnpaley at gmail dot com, and you can follow her on Twitter @dawn_.

Photograph by Caelie Frampton.