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A sports journalist makes community visible

Shireen Ahmed receives the Carl Mitchell Community Impact Award after years of widening the frame around sport.

Shireen Ahmed receives the Carl Mitchell Community Impact Award.
AlumniShireen Ahmed receives the Carl Mitchell Community Impact Award.Photo: University of Toronto Alumni / official source image

Shireen Ahmed’s journalism has treated sport as a place where identity, access and power become visible. The Carl Mitchell Community Impact Award recognizes that widened frame as well as the reporting inside it.

For students learning the craft, the example is sharp: the subject is not only what happened on the field. It is who was invited, who was missing and who gets to tell the story afterward.

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