About

CJOC — Canadian Journal of Independent Content Launching June 6, 2026.

We're new. We're not going to pretend otherwise, and we think that's a strength.

CJOC is an independent editorial collective — a group of reporters and writers, most of us working out of cities across Canada, who got tired of waiting for permission to do the work that matters. We don't sit in a tower downtown and we don't answer to a media conglomerate. What we share is a stubborn belief that too many stories never make it past the gatekeepers: too local, too inconvenient, too unprofitable to bother with.

So we built our own roof.

We cover the community stories the corporate press treats as background noise — from logistics and data to privacy, labour, and the people organizing for change in their own neighbourhoods. Our focus is investigative and on the ground, the slow kind of reporting that follows a thread until it leads somewhere.

A note on how we work: CJOC is organized as a distributed digital network, not a single newsroom. Our contributors are spread across different cities and connected through a wider international network that keeps the platform running. We're a collective rather than a masthead of personalities — the work speaks first.

Editorial independence isn't a tagline for us. It's the entire reason we exist.

Reach us anytime at info@cjoc.net.