David Sali
David Sali is a senior features writer and editor at Ottawa Business Journal whose real estate and business coverage tracks how deals, leases and leadership decisions reshape the commercial landscape. He focuses on the organizations behind major property moves, connecting transactions and projects to their practical impact on tenants, investors and growing companies. His reporting combines clear, accessible explanations with a preference for scoops and detailed feature work.
Real estate deals and office markets
Sali’s real estate coverage centres on commercial and institutional property decisions rather than routine listings. In his reporting on federal plans to potentially lease or buy more office space in Ottawa–Gatineau, he parses government procurement language and market data to show how policy shifts translate into concrete demand for space.
He treats office, industrial and residential segments as parts of a single market, highlighting how new leases, acquisitions and large developments affect vacancy, pricing and the business community that depends on these assets.
Headlines in the real estate section frequently place him on stories about major projects and land development, where he reports both the basic facts and the context around why a particular site or transaction matters. The emphasis is on commercial-scale moves, with attention to landlords, developers and large occupiers rather than consumer real estate.
His beat work is grounded in specific deals and announcements, but he consistently pushes toward what they signal about broader trends.
Architecture, development and corporate strategy
Sali extends his coverage beyond property ownership into the firms that design and shape the built environment.
In his story on Montreal firm Provencher_Roy acquiring GRC Architects, he frames the deal as a move that creates one of the capital’s largest architecture practices and examines what that consolidation means for future projects. He approaches architecture and development stories through corporate strategy, describing how acquisitions, mergers and expansion plans position firms in a competitive market.
Company profiles and deal coverage often include leadership perspectives, giving his pieces a strong executive lens. Rather than focusing on design aesthetics, he focuses on capacity, markets served and how newly combined firms intend to pursue large-scale work. This angle distinguishes his real estate writing from purely transactional reporting, turning stories about architects and developers into clear explanations of corporate intent and sector positioning.
Technology and high-growth companies
Alongside real estate, Sali writes extensively about growth-oriented businesses, especially in technology and innovation. His exclusive coverage of changes to Shopify’s executive team shows a preference for leadership and governance angles, breaking news on who is steering major firms and why those shifts matter.
In his feature on MindBridge’s CEO discussing the firm’s future, he uses extended interviews to explore how strategy, funding and product development fit together for a scaling company.
He also contributes to coverage of fast-growing local firms through special initiatives that spotlight rapid revenue growth. In those contexts, he writes about expansion plans, hiring, and market focus, tying individual company trajectories to wider trends in entrepreneurship and business performance.
This work complements his real estate reporting by following the tenants and innovators who drive demand for space and shape the economic environment.
Feature reporting and newsroom leadership
Sali’s role at Ottawa Business Journal combines frontline reporting with editorial leadership. He is described as a senior features writer and editor with three decades of experience across newspapers ranging from community weeklies to major daily publications, and he has overseen newsrooms and managed teams and budgets. That background shows in his preference for in-depth stories built around interviews and carefully structured narrative rather than short updates.
He has been recognized multiple times by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers, earning awards for best news feature, best scoop and best overall writer among medium-sized business publications. Those honours reflect a consistent focus on exclusives, deeper context and strong storytelling.
Across real estate, corporate strategy and technology, his work is distinguished by its combination of beat knowledge, access to decision-makers and a feature writer’s attention to clarity and structure.
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Aleisha Dawson
Aleisha Dawson covers property where prestige deals, hard market data and lifestyle stories meet, with a particular focus on high-profile apartments and new projects in South East Queensland. She is a regional real estate editor within News Corp’s property network, overseeing property coverage for the Gold Coast Bulletin and contributing to Realestate.com.au’s property news. Her beat spans record-setting penthouse sales, off-market prestige deals, new apartment releases in landmark projects, and one-off high-value homes used as case studies in buyer behaviour. She tracks land and apartment markets with a data-led approach, using specific price points, volume figures and suburb lists. Dawson also reports on quirky homes, celebrity property, pop culture-linked locations and technology-shaped renovations, and her stories are widely republished by developers, agents and project marketers.
Blair Jackson
Blair Jackson explains housing through money: how prices, policy and banks shape the way people buy, sell and live. He is a reporter with the national wire service NewsWire, covering real estate and household finance across Australia. His work follows housing downturns, price movements, negative equity, mortgages, first-home buyers and existing borrowers. He reports on renters, poor housing conditions, high rents, repairs, affordability and housing inequality. He examines zoning, supply targets, tax changes, construction limits, development decisions and efforts to fix housing shortages. His finance coverage includes mortgage fraud, bank risk, interest rates, household costs and windfalls used to pay off property. He also covers auctions, listings, luxury homes, renovations and major developments. Jackson combines data, policy analysis, expert warnings, open-home and auction detail, and personal examples to show how financial decisions affect households and communities.
Bonnie Campbell
Bonnie Campbell is a luxury property reporter for The Australian Financial Review who focuses on the very top of the residential market, where big-ticket homes, mega-mansions and high-profile sales set and test price records. She covers trophy properties, record-breaking deals and prestige streets, using individual sales as case studies in how wealth, status and grand houses move through the market. Her stories track extreme price movements, large-scale renovations, unusual features and multi-million dollar listings, and link them to high-net-worth buyers, business leaders and public figures. She repeatedly returns to prestige coastal, resort and lifestyle markets, explaining how scarcity, views and amenity support multi-million dollar valuations. Alongside single-property features, she produces roundups of major luxury deals to show patterns in where the biggest money flows and which houses define the top end.
Caroline Delaney
Caroline Delaney is a senior property and features journalist at the Irish Examiner whose work links individual homes, damaged houses and outdoor spaces to the wider housing landscape. She covers residential listings with clear, price‑led pieces on specific homes coming to market, highlighting core details such as guide price, size, house type and a plain sense of location. Her property features look at fire damage and repair, treating house fires as a structural issue for the housing market and following cases through court proceedings and the process of putting homes right. She also reports on outdoor spaces and synthetic lawns, including environmental experts’ views on plastic turf in domestic gardens. Her news and features background keeps the tone fact‑led rather than promotional and gives her coverage a practical focus on aspiration, risk and everyday use of housing.