VANCOUVER, BC – October 3, 2025 – The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is pleased to announce its two Media Fellowship recipients for 2025-26.
Each year, the APF Canada Media Fellowship Program offers Canadian journalists the opportunity to spend time in Asia researching and preparing stories for Canadian audiences. The goal of the program is to help Canadian journalists become better informed about this dynamic part of the world in order to write and broadcast insightfully on Asia and the Canada-Asia relationship.
Recipients are entitled to up to C$10,000 for travel, accommodation, and in-country expenses. The program has supported nearly 100 Canadian journalists since its inception in 1986.
APF Canada’s 2025-2026 Media Fellowships are awarded to Daisy
Xiong and Laura-Julie Perreault.
Xiong and Laura-Julie Perreault.
- Daisy Xiong is a reporter for Business in Vancouver with a particular
focus on economics, international trade, technology, and labour. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, CBC, Global TV, and Vice Media. In 2018 she was the bronze recipient for business writing at the 2018 Ma Murray Community News Media Awards. Her APF Canada Media Fellowship will take her to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to explore how Canadian companies are diversifying supply chains by leveraging overseas production. Through first-hand reporting, she will examine Canada’s bilateral trade relationship with Vietnam along with the opportunities, and challenges, of overseas manufacturing. - Laura-Julie Perreault is a journalist with La Presse with experience reporting in over 40 countries as an international affairs columnist. Based in Montréal, Québec, her work has received recognition from Canada's National Newspaper Awards and the Amnesty International Media Awards. From 2013 to 2014 she was a Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Her APF Canada Media Fellowship will take her to Japan and South Korea to investigate the socioeconomic impacts of military investment. With the aim of informing Canada’s own defence priorities, she will focus on the militarization policies of each country and the social climate concerning defence spending, including the pacifist movement in Japan and South Korea’s military-industrial complex.
For more details on the APF Canada Media Fellowship Program and how to
apply, please follow this link.
apply, please follow this link.
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