February 2024: Alexandra Mae Jones is no longer with the company.
Alexandra is a freelance writer for CTVNews.ca, where she reports on a variety of topics, from scientific studies about sharks and space, to viral videos, to breaking news from around the globe.
She is based in Toronto and got her start in journalism with a two-year stint at the Toronto Star on the breaking news desk.
As a student journalist, she won a John H. McDonald Award for a piece written in 2016 for The Strand, a newspaper published out of Victoria College within the University of Toronto.
Alexandra has a bachelor of arts in english and drama from the University of Toronto, and a master of fine arts in creative writing with the University of Guelph. Her creative work has appeared in several literary magazines, and she published her first novel in 2022.
She speaks English.