Filipa Pajevic is a journalist, fact-checker and editor based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Her writing has appeared in The Walrus, Little White Lies, Toronto Star, Toronto Life, CityLab (Bloomberg) and The Guardian, among others. Most recently, she was the Senior Editorial Fellow at The Walrus, a fact-checked independent Canadian magazine. Prior to that, she was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
She writes primarily about arts and culture, occasionally contributing opinion pieces. As a fact-checker, she continues to support award-winning journalists at The Walrus, The Local, Broadview and Canadian Geographic, among others.
Before journalism, she was an academic researcher and lecturer specializing in urban studies. She holds a PhD from McGill University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, where she also taught graduate-level courses. While at McGill, she founded and served as editor-in-chief of free city, a student-run zine of the School of Urban Planning.
Her past life as an academic grounds her journalism in accuracy, rigour, and a commitment to layered storytelling. But it’s her love of deeply resonant, human stories that drives her and infuses her work with care.
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