Our Team
The Rover is a reader-funded investigative journalism project reporting from Montreal, across Quebec, and beyond.
We’re an award-winning newsletter that covers stories you won’t find anywhere else. Stories about Indigenous communities up North, homeless camps under Montreal’s overpasses, immigrant communities affected by xenophobic laws, and police violence that puts a target on the backs of Black Quebecers.
Our story began in 2020 when former Montreal Gazette reporter Christopher Curtis left Postmedia and set out to produce journalism for the people, not profit. At The Rover, there are no corporate owners or asset-stripping hedge funds — just fearless independent investigative journalism.
We’ve since grown into a two-person team supported by some of the city’s finest emerging journalists, photographers and videographers. We cover politics, housing, labour, grassroots initiatives, Indigenous issues, culture and more, in English and en français, and we strive to always bring you the stories of the real humans behind the headlines. It’s all made possible by our subscribers: about 80 per cent of our funding comes from you.
Join us on this journey by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. Sometimes it’ll be funny, sometimes it’ll be sad, sometimes it’ll be both. It’s the story of where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Our team
Christopher Curtis
Founder
Christopher used to work for Postmedia; now, he works for you. After almost a decade at The Montreal Gazette, he started The Rover to escape corporate ownership and tell the stories you won’t find anywhere else. Since then, Chris and The Rover have won a Canadian Association of Journalists award, a Medal of the National Assembly, and a Judith Jasmin award — the highest honour in Quebec journalism.
Savannah Stewart
Managing Editor
Savannah Stewart is a Montreal-based journalist. She joined The Rover as Managing Editor in 2023, and she’s particularly interested in community reporting, housing, justice, women’s rights and the environment. Her work can be found, in English and in French, in Pivot, The Eastern Door and Cult MTL.
