Jackie Hong
Jackie Hong studied the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. She was able to get in-the-field experience and started at the Toronto Star newspaper’s radio room in her fourth year at school. After that she got the Star’s summer reporting internship and then a one-year program as a staff reporter. A co-intern had worked in the Yukon for a couple of years and talked about how great it was, so Jackie applied when a position opened up for a court/justice reporter with the Yukon News.1) Jackie Hong moved to the Yukon in 2017 and, after working with the Yukon News for over three years, became a reporter for CBC Radio-Canada in 2020.2)