The stories that connect the dots between technology and business leadership
Canada’s longest-running independent publication covering innovation, technology, and business leadership. Published continuously since 1998, reaching 1.5 million readers per month.
We follow stories past the announcement and into organizations across the country
Digital Journal launched in 1998, when the internet was still finding its place. Since then, media has reinvented itself on a pretty consistent basis. Print gave way to digital, social platforms reshaped distribution, and entire newsrooms rose fast and disappeared just as quickly. We’ve adapted alongside it all.
Plans sound convincing in a boardroom, but the real story comes to life when they meet budgets, hiring decisions, regulations, and public debate. We report on the people making the decisions and the people living with the results.
A choice made inside one organization can affect jobs, pricing, access, and public services. Changes made behind closed doors can show up months later in someone’s daily routine. We follow ideas long enough to understand what holds up, who adapts, and where the effects land.
We focus on what happens after the announcement, when decisions meet operational reality. Cover enough of these stories and you start seeing the same names, the same trade-offs, and the same questions across industries and regions. That’s when reporting becomes a record.
Change only makes sense when you can see how it connects.
Our reporting follows technology, industry shifts, leadership decisions, and the institutions that shape them. We speak with founders, executives, researchers, public leaders, and the people affected by their decisions. We return to those conversations over time to ask the questions that matter.
> What changed?
> Who adjusted?
> Where did it show up next?
Our journalists publish alongside subject matter experts and industry leaders, bringing reported stories and informed perspectives into the same conversation.
Our team
Our team comes from journalism, broadcasting, and business, and has spent decades covering how technology and innovation reshape the organizations and industries Canadians depend on. We have writers and editors across the country, with bureau presence in Toronto and Calgary.
Chris Hogg
CEO, Executive Editor & Partner
Janusz Uiberall
Founder, Partner & Publisher
Grace Krigstin
Partner, CFO
Alex Chumak
Partner, CTO
David Potter
Senior Contributing Editor
Jennifer Friesen
Associate Editor, Alberta Lead
Jennifer Kervin
Editor, Content Programs Manager
+ reporters and SMEs
across the country
Editorial Advisory Committee
Senior leaders from across the innovation ecosystem, with experience spanning Canada, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. They bring real-world perspective from inside the companies, ecosystems, and policy environments shaping how Canada competes and grows.
WORK WITH US
Let's tell your story
We work with organizations across Canada to produce content that reaches senior decision-makers, earns their attention, and holds it.
Innovation requires a different kind of reporting
People confuse invention with innovation all the time. An invention is a new product, a clever prototype, or a patent filed. Innovation is what happens when that idea has to prove itself and when it’s battle-tested in real life. It has to work inside budgets, regulations, institutions, supply chains, classrooms, hospitals, and city councils. It has to be adopted by people who weren’t in the room when it was created.
That’s when you find out whether it changes anything, and you can see it play out. A company changes how it builds something and its suppliers feel it next quarter. A new rule comes into effect and an entire sector starts rewriting contracts. A tool that looked niche last year becomes the standard this year.
Most of the actual work doesn’t make the front page
It’s discussed in industry meetings, published in specialist journals, or buried in language that assumes you already know the context. A lot of change starts in small rooms with bad coffee, and by the time it reaches a wider audience, the change is already underway.
That’s when it’s time to look back. We return to these stories months later and ask who adopted the change, who resisted it, and what changed as a result. Follow it long enough and you begin to see what stands, and what fades. Those are the stories we return to.
Over time, our reporting has become a record of how change plays out across Canada.
A hiring decision in Calgary can affect suppliers in Vancouver. A regulatory shift in Ottawa can change how startups raise capital. The effects impact hiring, pricing, regulation, competitiveness and public services.
By connecting these threads across industries and regions, we help make innovation visible at a national scale.
Canada’s innovation economy is often fragmented by geography and sector. We focus on connecting those fragments and showing how decisions in one part of the country ripple into another.
We keep returning to the story after the first wave of attention passes. The headline is only the beginning.