Ashley Fraser is a multimedia journalist. She is currently a Producer for CBC Radio and CBC News.

 

At CBC, she produces for shows including As It Happens, Day 6, The Current, Front Burner, and Cross Country Checkup. She also works as a field producer to produce segments for CBC's The National, News Network and World at Six. 

 

In October 2020 Ashley began the CBC News Joan Donaldson Scholarship where she completed placements at CBC's Front Burner, the Toronto Local Enterprise Unit and CBC Podcasts over a period of 4 months. 

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A creative thinker, she strives to tell stories in nontraditional methods. Her reporting projects have taken her to the disappearing fishing villages of Hong Kong to create a 360-degree video documentary. For her master's thesis, she developed a multi-platform live journalism performance about the accessibility of Toronto's arts education curriculum.

 

Ashley grew up in the UK and later moved back to Canada, which sparked her interest in covering stories that crossed borders. In 2016 she interned at the BBC World Service for a daily call in program, World Have Your Say. In 2017, after completing here degree in communications at Simon Fraser University she was selected as a Peter Gzowski intern at CBC Radio in Vancouver.

 

Ashley finished her post-secondary career as the chief podcast editor at the [ ] Review of Journalism (formerly known as Ryerson Review of Journalism) while completing her master of journalism degree at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University). She interned at CBC's Day 6 and at the CBC News London bureau in the UK. There, she covered Brexit and photographed Greta Thunberg as she set sail across the Atlantic ocean. 

 

Connect with her @ashleymfraser