Joseph Loiero

Joseph Loiero joined the W5 team in 2023 after 15 years as an investigative journalist at CBC’s The Fifth Estate, Investigative Unit and The National. His reporting specializes in organized crime and the Mafia, Canada’s correctional system - with a particular focus on prisoner rights - along with workplace safety and public health matters. He was recently interviewed as an expert in a three-part Crave original series on Italian organized crime in Ontario, the most comprehensive exposé on the Italian Mafia in the last half century, a series which he also contributed to as an investigative journalist and field producer. His work has led to the opening of investigations into potential wrongful deaths, the banning of predatory consumer practices in Ontario, the shutdown of the last asbestos mining industry in Quebec and the creation of Canada’s first public residential radon exposure database. Through his work, Joseph also obtained exclusive video from correctional facilities in Canada, including video of a jailhouse murder and a suicide in London, Ont., and of Indigenous youth being placed in full-body restraining devices - likened by experts to torture. Joseph is the recipient of an Amnesty International Award for Outstanding Canadian Human Rights Reporting for his work on prisoner rights, a Canadian Screen Award for Best Editorial Research, an RTDNA Award for Multiplatform Investigative Journalism, a Canadian Association of Journalists and Canadian Medical Association Award and has been nominated for the Governor General’s Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism. A few of his past investigations include a series of stories on worker safety within the rail industry, match fixing in Canadian soccer and the long-term impacts of concussions on professional football players. He received his master's degree in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), an honours degree in communication studies and philosophy from York University, and a broadcast journalism diploma from Seneca @ York. Born in Toronto and of Italian heritage, Joseph knows all too well both the joys and struggles of being a Leafs fan and making homemade cured meat. The former being much harder and less enjoyable than the latter. Joseph speaks English.