Mary Lynn Young has worked as an editor, reporter, national business columnist and senior crime journalist at major daily newspapers in Canada and the United States. Mary Lynn’s current research projects include the impact of data journalism on news norms, practices and organizational routines, and does gender matter in a journalism startup.

Mary Lynn currently teaches JRNL 100A: New Media and Society in the BMS program and Media Studies stream in the Coordinated Arts Program and JRNL 400: Feminist Postcolonial Critique and Journalism in a Digital Age in the BMS program.