Zachary Kamel is an award-winning investigative journalist and producer based in Montreal, Canada.
His reporting has been featured in a wide range of print and online publications including: The Globe and Mail, Die Zeit, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, CBC News, Vice, Ricochet Media and other outlets – covering everything from how a former Canadian army reservist snuck across the U.S. / Canadian border to give an arms training to a neo-Nazi terror group, to the rise and sudden fall of a sushi empire on the west coast that left hundreds of workers in the lurch.
As the country prepared for a lockdown in March 2020, he helped launch Project Pandemic: Canada Reports on COVID-19, a collaborative data project with the Institute of Investigative Journalism at Concordia University. Their work has helped connect journalists across the country with reliable data and interactive ArcGIS maps of hot zones which update in real-time.
Zachary’s expertise on far-right groups has been featured on a variety of national media, including CBC’s The National and DIE ZEIT’s investigative podcast Was Jetzt? He also worked as a fact checker on White Hot Hate for CBC Podcasts.
In 2017, his work with CBC Radio won the RTDNA for best long feature in the country. In 2019 he was selected to participate in the Investigative Journalism Intensive at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.