Build Fellow

The Line is adding a Build Canada Journalism Fellow to their team.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Canada is a great country, but it is falling behind. Our infrastructure is crumbling, our growth and productivity are stagnant, and our capacity to innovate, to build, and to get things done has atrophied in ways that should alarm anyone paying attention. Most outlets aren't paying attention. We are.

Thanks to funding from Build Canada, The Line is looking for an investigative journalist who understands that these aren't abstract policy debates. They are stories about why your commute is a disaster, why housing costs a fortune, why the country that built the CPR now struggles to approve a pipeline. We want someone who can find those stories, report them rigorously, and write them in a way that makes readers actually care.

This is not a job for someone who wants to churn out takes on the latest rage-bait. This is a job for someone who can do the leg work, and who has the range to do it across formats. With this partnership with Build Canada, we are looking for a journalist serious enough to write about Canada honestly, and skilled enough to do it with clarity and creativity across whatever formats can best tell the story.

The Line exists because Canada deserves journalism that treats its readers as adults. The Build Canada Fellowship is an extension of that — a chance to spend a year doing serious, substantive work on the questions that actually shape this country's future.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Over the course of one year, you will produce a series of in-depth investigative pieces on Canada's infrastructure gaps, innovation failures, productivity deficits, and federal spending. Your area of operation could include tracking what is going on with the Major Projects Office, the Defence Investment Agency, Build Canada Homes, interprovincial trade, federal spending and transfers, and any of the other myriad programs, initiatives, and agencies that have been set up in recent years to boost Canadian growth and productivity.

You will have the time and editorial support to do these stories properly, in a format that suits the story you want to tell.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

You know how to report, you know how to write, and you are comfortable working with data. You've read The Line, you are familiar with Build Canada, and you understand that both institutions are trying to make Canada better. And you want to be part of it. As the ideal candidate, you have:

• Minimum five years of journalism experience, with a track record of published investigative work that demonstrates range and depth

• Demonstrated ability to work across formats — features, investigations, analysis, interviews — not just one lane

• Genuine familiarity with The Line's editorial voice and Build Canada's mandate

• Comfort with complexity: these stories involve policy, economics, engineering, and politics — sometimes all at once

• The ability to find sources, file FOIs, read documents, and turn all of that into prose that a smart, busy reader will actually finish

• Experience with or openness to multimedia editorial products, where appropriate to the story

• A portfolio of written work that makes us want to read more

We're not looking for a particular ideological perspective. We're looking for intellectual honesty, a commitment to getting things right, and the kind of curiosity that doesn't turn off at 5 p.m.

FELLOWSHIP DETAILS

• Location:
  
  Virtual
• Contract Length:
  One Year
• Focus Areas:
  Infrastructure, Innovation, Productivity, Government spending
• Compensation:
  Competitive
• Experience
  
  Required:
  
  5+ Years
• Formats:
  Investigative, Feature, Analysis, Multimedia & More

WHY THIS FELLOWSHIP

Independent journalism in Canada is having a rough go of it. We know that. But The Line has survived and grown because we've been straight with our readers and we've done work that matters. The Build Canada Fellowship is a chance to spend a year doing exactly that — focused, resourced, and editorially supported — on a beat that genuinely matters for the country's future.

HOW TO APPLY

Send us your portfolio and a brief note telling us why you want to do this work and why you're the right person to do it.

Include examples of your work across formats if you have them. Show us range. Show us rigour. Show us that you can engage with the most pressing issues facing this country.

We're serious about this fellowship and we expect serious applicants. If your portfolio is strong and your pitch is honest, we'll be in touch.

• Applications to:
• Subject line:
  Build Canada Fellowship Application -- (Your Name)

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