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Ottawa Citizen reporter Catherine Morrison is the recipient of the 2024 EU-Canada Young Journalist Fellowship, a program that recognizes outstanding talent among young Canadian journalists.
Morrison, who has covered the federal public service for the Citizen since January 2023, was awarded the fellowship for her coverage of the Canadian federal government following in the EU’s footsteps in creating a “right to disconnect,” a policy criticized by experts as having “no clout behind it.”
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Morrison is one of three reporters chosen for the fellowship by the Delegation of the European Union to Canada and the Canadian Association of Journalists.
“I am very pleased to see a young, ambitious Ottawa Citizen journalist selected for this fellowship,” said Nicole Feriancek, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief.
“Catherine Morrison is a talented reporter and an important member of our newsroom. I’m thrilled that she will have this opportunity to deepen her international reporting skills, build connections and bring stories back to our readers.”
Morrison holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from McGill University, where she studied gender, sexuality, feminism and social justice studies, minoring in political science and communications.
Her enterprising coverage of the federal public service includes uncovering key details in the newly announced return-to-office policy, struggles with changes to public servants’ health insurance and wall-to-wall coverage of the 2023 Public Service Alliance of Canada strike, when workers across Canada hit the picket lines for weeks.
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“I am deeply looking forward to participating in this week-long study tour,” Morrison said. “I plan to make the most of this opportunity and learn how other countries are navigating issues affecting their governments and facing civil servants, like return-to-office policies, to better inform my reporting back home in Canada.”
Morrison will participate in a week-long study tour of European Union institutions in Brussels in October.
“The Delegation of the European Union is delighted to partner with the CAJ on this initiative aimed at giving young Canadian journalists and writers an opportunity to advance their career goals and form life-long friendships with Europeans,” a statement from the organization said.
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