About

Acey Rowe is documentarian-at-large with CBC’s IDEAS and the Audio Doc Unit, of which she was a founding producer.

She was the lead producer of Understood at CBC Podcasts, overseeing seasons including The Big Bet, Artifical Intimacy, Deepfake Porn Empire and Who Broke the Internet? (NYF — Gold, 2026), and the producer of Uncover: Bad Results (RTDNA — Best Podcast, 2025) for CBC News Podcasts.

She was the creator of Storylines, the ADU’s in-house documentary podcast and national radio show. Prior to that, she was the host, producer, and story editor of The Doc Project, CBC's critically-acclaimed national documentary radio show and podcast.

Her work has also been featured on Slate Magazine’s Decoder Ring, NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money, Cited Media’s Cited, BBC, ABC, and independent podcasts. For Canada’s National Observer she was the story editor of The Salmon People (Apple Canada — Best Podcasts, 2022).

Acey has helmed more than 400 narrative episodes and has won a respectable pile of awards for her efforts (see below). Her dream is to win the Skylarking Award at Third Coast, but they discontinued the category the year after she was a mere finalist and she’s never gotten over it.

WINNER

RTDNA — Best Podcast 2025, Excellence in Sound 2022 & 2020, Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award 2020 & 2018

CAJ — Labour Reporting 2023, Human Rights Reporting 2022

New York Festivals — Gold – Technology Podcast 2026, Gold - History Documentary 2022, Bronze – Editorial 2021, Silver – News Documentary 2020, Silver – Human Rights Documentary 2020, Bronze – Documentary Profile 2019, Gold - Educational 2018

Digital Publishing Awards — Silver, Best Current Affairs Podcast, Understood: Who Broke The Internet? 2026

imagineNATIVE — Narrative Audio 2020)

Gabriel Awards — Documentary 2019, Feature Interview 2016‍ ‍

FINALIST

CAJ (Environmental Reporting 2024), Webby Awards (2023); New York Festivals (Documentary - Current Affairs 2022, Best Innovation 2020); CJF (Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism 2023, Climate Solutions Reporting 2023, 2022); Webster Awards (Best Feature/Enterprise Reporting 2024, 2022 & 2019); CWA/CAJ (Labor Reporting 2020); Third Coast (Skylarking Award 2019); Hillman Prize (Investigative Journalism 2018)