Eva Wasney

Reporter

Eva Wasney covers environmental issues in Manitoba for The Narwhal in partnership with the Winnipeg Free Press.

Born in Winnipeg, she is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg and Red River College Polytech’s creative communications program.

She worked as a staff reporter and photographer with the Brandon Sun and Free Press Community Review prior to joining the Free Press as a reporter and editor in 2019.

In 2022, she wrote a bestselling, award-winning community cookbook, Homemade: Recipes and Stories from Winnipeg and Beyond, to mark the newspaper’s 150th anniversary and its long history of food journalism.

Eva was a National Newspaper Award finalist for her profile of local Anishnaabe artist Jordan Stranger and his campaign against corporate “orange-washing.” While at the Brandon Sun, she won an EPPY Award for a large multimedia project about Second World War veterans.