Zachary Kamel is an award-winning investigative journalist and producer based in Montreal, Canada.
His reporting has been featured in a wide range of print and online publications, including The Globe and Mail, Die Zeit, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, CBC News, Vice, Ricochet Media, and other outlets. He covers everything from how a former Canadian army reservist snuck across the U.S./Canadian border to give arms training to a neo-Nazi terror group to the rise and sudden fall of a sushi empire on the west coast that left hundreds of workers in the lurch.
In 2023, Zachary led a national investigative reporting project into the role short-term rentals play in the Canadian housing crisis. He also scooped all of Quebec media by exposing how, shortly after being elected, the province’s minister of housing met with her former business partner turned lobbyist.
As the country prepared for lock down in March 2020, he helped launch Project Pandemic: Canada Reports on COVID-19, a collaborative data project with the Institute of Investigative Journalism at Concordia University. Their work has helped connect journalists across the country with reliable data and interactive ArcGIS maps of hot zones, which update in real-time.
Zachary’s expertise on far-right groups has been featured on a variety of national media, including CBC’s The National and Die Zeit’s investigative podcast Was Jetzt? He also worked as a fact-checker on White Hot Hate for CBC Podcasts.
In 2017, his work with CBC Radio won the RTDNA for the best long feature in the country. In 2019, he was selected to participate in the Investigative Journalism Intensive at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. His reporting on short-term rentals and Airbnb was short-listed for a Canadian Association of Journalists national reporting award in 2024.