Michelle Roy

Michelle Roy is the senior editor of The Charger. She is from Ottawa and graduated from Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication.

Michelle believes that accurate, unbiased information is a basic right, because people need a proper understanding of what is happening around them. She is also interested in how marketing shapes public perception, the subject of her thesis.

In her view, journalists may strive to be impartial, but their own social constructionist perspective can still bias a story. That is why she screens every freelance journalist The Charger works with for partisan sentiment. There is nothing wrong with being partisan, she says, but in journalism the news must not be coloured by personal influence.

Before joining The Charger, Michelle worked as a freelance journalist for four and a half years, travelling from province to province to cover the opinion sections of regional newspapers.