Carolyn Thompson is a Canadian project editor at the Center for Collaboratie Investigative Journalism and a freelance data and investigative journalists based in Germany.
Carolyn Thompson is an award-winning freelance data journalist whose reporting focuses on human rights, humanitarian crises, economies, refugee movements, policy and government accountability. Her work has been published by Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, CBC, Radio-Canada, France 24, NPR, News Deeply, Maclean's Magazine, among others. She produces magazine features and news pieces, radio packages, and television lives and reports.
Carolyn has spoken at numerous conferences about her reporting, including the International Journalism Festival, NICAR, MozFest, and DataDriven. She was the Visiting Journalist in Forestry at the University of British Columbia in 2018 and participated in the Investigative Journalism Intensive at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2017.
She has trained journalists internationally: as a media trainer with Journalists for Human Rights in South Sudan and Ghana, as a contract trainer for South Sudanese and Kenyan journalists through Free the Press Unlimited and iJourno Africa, and as a sessional instructor of a computer-assisted reporting course at a Canadian university.
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