Amanda Connolly is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on Canadian and international politics, most often around issues of foreign policy, national security and defence, and gender equality. Through her experiences living and working across Canada, she aims to bring a truly national perspective that helps Canadians understand their place in a rapidly changing world.
Before becoming Managing Editor of Politics & Breaking News at GlobalNews.ca in 2022, Connolly joined the Global News Parliamentary Bureau in 2017 as a political reporter for GlobalNews.ca. She became a senior political reporter with the bureau in 2021, frequently contributing to radio and television programming on the network, including every Friday on AM640 in The Ottawa Report. Connolly is part of the Global News team whose groundbreaking work exposing allegations of sexual misconduct in the senior ranks of the Canadian Forces has forced a national and institutional reckoning, which remains underway today. For that work, the team earned nominations in 2022 for the Michener Award, the CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Landsberg Award. She won the 2020 RTDNA Charlie Edwards Award for network breaking news as part of a team for coverage of the Cameron Ortis arrest and the 2015 EU-Canada Young Journalist Fellowship as an individual, and had the privilege of covering the 2022 Platinum Jubilee on the ground in London, U.K., as well as the 2018 G7 Summit from Quebec City. Connolly’s work makes frequent and expert use of Canada’s access to information laws, yielding powerful stories exposing the behind-the-scenes realities of diplomacy and policy-making in a challenging new geopolitical climate.
Prior to joining Global News, Connolly was a defence and national security reporter for iPolitics. In 2016 she asked a question about human rights during a press conference with the Chinese foreign minister that kicked off an international incident and drew critical eyes around the world onto the Canadian government’s response. While at iPolitics, her work exposing the way that the Canada Summer Jobs program was being used to funnel money to anti-abortion groups led to concrete policy changes.
Before moving to Ottawa in 2014, Connolly spent two years as a reporter for the CBC in Calgary where she covered the 2013 Southern Alberta floods. She is a proud graduate of Carleton University’s Bachelor of Journalism program in 2012 and grew up in Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton.
When not working, she can usually be found writing, reading, running, or trying her hand at a new recipe.
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Hi Amanda,
I’m a Psych prof at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. A colleague mentioned you had put out an information request regarding the physical traits of political candidates. Have you tried contacting the ISPP (International Society of Political Psychology)? I am convinced that a bunch of members of this Society would have that type of expertise. (I am a member of this society but I do research on youth engagement; not ‘election’ stuff 🙂 I also know that many of them regularly take on media requests. Cheers, Dave Bourgeois
Amana,
Congrats as to your verbal scolding by China Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Your astute question, as to the Canadian political prisoner, perhaps wasn’t appreciated by our foreign policy establishment, but it was to me. Your push for asking questions on human rights speaks well for young journalists in Canada. — David Murrell in Fredericton