Pacinthe Mattar is a Toronto-based journalist, writer and producer.

Pacinthe Mattar is a Toronto-based journalist, writer, producer and journalism educator whose work on objectivity has been called “essential learning for future journalists.” She is currently a 2025/2026 William Southam Journalism Fellow at Massey College.

She was the 2023 Asper Fellow in Media at Western University and was the 2022 Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2025, Pacinthe was selected for the Winter Writers Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Her feature essay for The Walrus, "Objectivity Is A Privilege Afforded to White Journalists" won Gold at the 2021 National Magazine Awards. 

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University, called it "the best insider critique of journalism [he'd] ever read.”