Position Title:

Producer, Visual Investigations (English Services) (On-Site)

Status of Employment:

Temporary Long-Term (Fixed Term)

Position Language Requirement:

English

Language Skills:

English (Reading - C - Advanced), English (Speaking - C - Advanced), English (Writing - C - Advanced)

Work at CBC/Radio-Canada

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.

Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

Unposting Date:

2025-09-02 11:59 PM

Producer, OSINT Visual Investigations

Full Time Temporary until March 22 2026

*Please note there is a strong internal candidate*

CBC News is looking for a skilled investigative journalist to work with our new and still developing visual investigations unit. This team relies on open source information and digital forensic techniques to break new stories while experimenting with distinct and innovative treatments. A sample of our work can be found here:

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6858875

You come prepared to our daily pitch meetings - actively watching ongoing news developments for investigative angles and quick-turn scoops. You are the kind of producer that can manage multiple projects of varying lengths and formats under tight deadlines, and can translate complex findings into clear narratives. We're making news with original OSINT-driven investigations and are also deeply committed to building and training a community of journalists across CBC. That's why we need someone who is fiercely competitive about this kind of journalism and intensely collaborative about how we do this kind of reporting.

This role primarily requires expertise in OSINT and digital forensic research. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with investigative reporting, field producing, video producing, and filing on multiple broadcast and digital platforms. Working side-by-side with a senior reporter, you have the unique capacity and willingness to juggle multiple indepth projects while still regularly collaborating with other journalists across the CBC newsroom and within the international OSINT community. This means, it’s an in person, in newsroom position.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigative Story Production

  • Pitch investigative stories
  • Apply evidence-based investigative techniques to analyze complex issues and events.
  • Cultivate sources, conduct interviews, and analyze documents and financial records.
  • Develop and pursue leads using both digital and traditional reporting methods.
  • Structure complex information into clear, accurate journalistic narratives that adhere to CBC journalistic standards and practices.
  • Fact-check.
  • Collaborate with editorial, design, and technical teams.

• Open-Source and digital forensic analysis

  • Identify, collect, and analyze public information from diverse sources (social media, government data, dark web, satellite imagery).
  • Apply advanced search methods and specialized tools to find hard-to-locate data.
  • Verify information authenticity through cross-referencing and source triangulation.
  • Conduct digital investigations: trace online footprints, interactions, and networks.
  • Analyze metadata from digital files for intelligence.

• Visual Investigations & Verification:

  • Find, verify, and analyze visual evidence (photos, videos, satellite imagery).
  • Use geolocation and chronolocation to pinpoint event locations and times.
  • Perform forensic analysis of visual media to detect manipulation and verify authenticity.
  • Reconstruct events based on visual evidence.
  • Verify User-Generated Content (UGC) for authenticity, origin, and context.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in video journalism
• 5+ years of experience in investigative reporting
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-impact, video-first stories.
• Exceptional visual and written storytelling skills
• Familiarity with CBC’s production workflows and working with Premiere/Adobe video editors
• Advanced proficiency in OSINT methods, experience in digital verification, geolocation, and metadata analysis.
• Some experience with data journalism and access to information process in Canada.
• Outstanding news judgment, adherence to journalistic ethics, rigorous attention to detail
• Experience with investigative fact-checking process and methodologies
• Ability to work collaboratively and calmly under tight deadlines in high-pressure environments.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel or work weekends as needed for reporting assignments.

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next

step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:

• A mandatory Criminal record check.
• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the

Diversity and Inclusion section

of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to

recruitment@cbc.ca

.

You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our

corporate website

. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on

conflicts of interest

. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

Primary Location:

Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7

Number of Openings:

1

Work Schedule:

Full time