Jenn Thornhill Verma is an award-winning environmental journalist and author specializing in the ocean, fisheries and climate change. As Canada’s first Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network (ORN) fellow, she is currently investigating Canada-U.S. cross-border protections for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale for The Globe and Mail’s year-long “Entangled” series. 

Verma’s other notable projects include her extensive coverage of the collapse of Canada’s east coast cod fishery, which featured in her nonfiction book, “Cod Collapse,” (2019, Nimbus Publishing) and animated short film, “Last Fish, First Boat;” and The Globe's “Unsettled” series, which examines how Labrador Inuit are adapting to climate change—a crisis disproportionately affecting coastlines in Canada’s Far North. The series took home gold in Environmental and Climate Change reporting at the 2025 Canadian Association of Journalists; and is behind another animated film project by the same name, scheduled for release in 2026.

Verma also took home gold awards for Best Column (Digital Publishing Awards, 2024) and Business reporting (Atlantic Journalism Awards, 2024) as co-producer of Seasplainer, The Independent’s fisheries and oceans explainer series; and Best Cover (AJAs, 2020), for cover art featuring her landscape painting.

A fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a Canadian Fellow of The Explorers Club, Jenn is also an alumna of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network and serves on the board of her alma mater and journalism school, the University of King’s College, where she is president of the alumni association. Verma lives in Ottawa with her family.