Marsha McLeod

Investigative reporter

Signal

Marsha is an investigative reporter. She joined the Free Press in 2023.

Since 2017, Marsha has focused on corporate and government accountability reporting. She has researched traffic ticketing in Buffalo, N.Y., that targeted the city’s Black neighborhoods; investigated one of the largest correctional health care companies in the U.S. and the county governments that chose to use its services; and written extensively about the disturbing conditions inside the Thunder Bay District Jail.

Marsha has also maintained a specific focus on the commitments the federal government has made to Indigenous people — and the times it fails to meet those obligations. This has included stories on Jordan’s Principle denials, delays in the processing of status applications and the slow pace of spending by the Indigenous Shelter and Transitional Housing Initiative.

In 2024, Marsha won the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s prestigious CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism (in the large-media category) for her reporting on inquests in Manitoba. Her work has also been recognized by the Digital Publishing Awards and the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Prior to joining the Free Press, Marsha covered the federal government for The Globe and Mail, based in Ottawa. She has also written features for TVO.org, Xtra Magazine, and The Atlantic, as well as Investigative Post and The Trace, which are non-profit newsrooms based in the U.S..

Marsha has a master’s degree from the Columbia Journalism School in New York City, where she was a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and focused on health care reporting.

In addition to her Free Press email (hosted on Microsoft Outlook), Marsha can be reached at marshamcleod@protonmail.com, as well as on Signal at marshamcleodwfp.30.