The National Media Awards Foundation is pleased to introduce the roster of judges for the 2024 National Magazine Awards. We are immensely grateful to our judges, who volunteered their expertise and countless hours to evaluate almost 1000 entries from hundreds of print and online magazines across Canada.
A reminder that this year’s nominees will be announced on May 2 at 11:00 a.m. EDT.
Élise Ascoet
Élise Ascoet est une directrice artistique et illustratrice franco-canadienne qui travaille dans l’édition et la presse magazine à Montréal. Titulaire de baccalauréats en communication visuelle du New York Institute of Technology et en design graphique de Créapole (Paris), elle a auparavant travaillé 15 ans dans les domaines de la publicité (Camden, McCann, Havas…). Élise se passionne pour les arts visuels en général (peinture, graffiti, street art, tatouage, bande dessinée…) et aime explorer de nouveaux horizons. Son leitmotiv : « Il n’existe pas de créativité sans curiosité ».
Arjun Basu
Arjun Basu is a writer, editor and brand strategist living in Montreal. He is a past President of the National Media Awards Foundation, serves on the Board of Directors of Access Copyright, and is President of arbaStrategies, a marketing and branding consultancy. His next novel, The Reeds, will be published in October 2024.
Willy Blomme
Willy Blomme has tried her hand - and sometimes earned her living - at a variety of different writing styles, from fiction to creative nonfiction to essays to political speeches for Jack Layton to advertising (but only for the good guys). Her short story “The Museum of Winter,” which won Silver at the 2023 NMAs, her PhD thesis The Senses of Climate Change from Johns Hopkins University, and other ongoing projects explore her obsession with the impact climate change is having on winter and the grief that its loss entails. She works at a progressive communications agency and lives in Montreal.
Geneviève Bouchard
Geneviève Bouchard œuvre dans le milieu télévisuel et cinéma depuis plus de 20 ans. En tant que Directrice des acquisitions Fiction chez Bell Média, elle est responsable des achats de Films Québécois, Blockbusters d’Hollywood ainsi que des plus grandes séries internationales. Cinéphile invétérée et passionnée de télévision, musique, design et culture pop, elle est graduée du Evergreen College a Washington avec un BA spécialisé en Cinéma.
Kelly Boutsalis
Kelly Boutsalis is a Mohawk freelance journalist from Six Nations of the Grand River, currently living in Scarborough. Some of her notable achievements include a Digital Publishing Award for Best Feature Article in 2021 for her story, Teaching Indigenous Star Stories, published in The Walrus; and becoming The Narwhal's Indigenous fellow in 2019. In 2021, she was The Local's first guest editor. She has written for the New York Times, Vogue, Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, and more. She is currently the programmer for Canadian feature films at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Steven Branco
Steven Branco is a Toronto-based serial entrepreneur, award winning quadruple-threat creative, foodie, jet-setter, digital enthusiast, big data lover, speaker, on-air lifestyle expert and content creator. Steven fluently speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese, openly gay, big 2SLGBTQIA+ community supporter and a mental health activist. With a distinct eye for design, Steven is self-taught designer, art and creative director at heart. Widely known as the fearless leader, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, of Stamina Group, where he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of View the VIBE, WanderEater and Gent’s Post, and Executive Producer of their newest platform, the Gent’s Talk podcast.
Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours
Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours est journaliste et cofondatrice des médias Ricochet et Pivot. Elle a publié des articles sur divers sujets dans la plupart des médias québécois. Elle a été présidente de l'Association des journalistes indépendants du Québec et enseigne le journalisme dans les universités québécoises. Elle a co-publié un ouvrage collectif sur la relève journalistique intitulé Prendre Parole (Somme Toute, 2021). Elle est également réalisatrice et productrice de podcasts et s'implique beaucoup dans le milieu médiatique.
Ariel Brewster
Ariel Brewster was deputy editor at Best Health and won two gold NMAs as a senior editor for Today's Parent. She has worked at The Walrus, Toronto Life, The Grid and New York mag. She is now an editor with Douglas & McIntyre and Harbour Publishing.
Ben Ladouceur
Ben Ladouceur is an author living in Ottawa. His first book, Otter, was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; his second book, Mad Long Emotion, was awarded the Archibald Lampman Prize. He is the recipient of the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBT+ writers, and a National Magazine Award for Poetry. His third book, a novel called I Remember Lights, will be out in 2025 through Book*Hug Press.
Joyce Byrne
Joyce Byrne is an award-winning veteran of the Canadian magazine industry. She has led publishing, editorial, creative, marketing and sales teams and boards in Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, and has worked on nearly every type of magazine, from arts and literary to light industrial, with consumer, business, health and cannabis in between. Joyce is the recipient of the National Media Awards Foundation’s Outstanding Achievement Award, and is past president of Alberta Magazine Publishers Association. She is AMPA’s curriculum consultant and the host of the Strategies for Canadian Magazines Webinar Series. Joyce lives in Toronto and her personal brand is I Love Magazines.
Dominique Cambron-Goulet
Dominique Cambron-Goulet est journaliste d’enquête spécialisé dans les affaires municipales. Il travaille au Bureau d’enquête du Journal de Montréal depuis 2018. Auparavant, il a occupé divers postes au sein de la rédaction du journal Métro et a été rédacteur en chef du journal étudiant de l’Université de Montréal, Quartier Libre.
Jason Chiu
Jason Chiu is a visual editor at The New York Times. He works on the Headway team and focuses on visual and experimental storytelling. Previously he was the Deputy Head of Visuals at The Globe and Mail. He is a member of the National Newspaper Awards Board of Governors and a former director of the Society For News Design.
Jean-Philippe Cipriani
Jean-Philippe Cipriani is a journalist and columnist for Radio-Canada and L’actualité. With a 25-year career in the media, he was editor-in-chief at Radio-Canada's newsroom in Montreal, director of digital content at L’actualité, as well as at La Presse canadienne and HuffPost Québec.
James Cowan
James Cowan is The Globe and Mail's investing and personal finance editor. He has also worked for Report on Business magazine, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, the National Post, Saturday Night and eye Weekly.
Molly Cross-Blanchard
Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 (Prince Albert, SK), and currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, cka Vancouver. Her debut collection of poetry is Exhibitionist (Coach House, 2021). Molly teaches Creative Writing and Indigenous Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Rob Csernyik
Rob Csernyik is an award-winning journalist and writer with an MFA in creative nonfiction. He is a 2022 Michener-Deacon investigative journalism fellow and a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. His work has also appeared in Canadian Geographic, Maisonneuve and The Walrus among other outlets. Rob edits Great Canadian Longform, sharing the best in Canadian literary journalism with fellow enthusiasts.
Nathalie Cuerrier
Nathalie has a degree in business administration with a focus in accounting and worked in the banking industry until joining Canadian Geographic in 1998 as a member services associate. She currently holds the position of Vice President of Operations and Publisher. Her responsibilities include planning, coordinating, and overseeing operations for all activities of Canadian Geographic and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, ensuring development and implementation of efficient operations and cost-effective protocols and procedures to meet current and future needs of the organization.
Paul Dallas
Paul Dallas is an artist whose work has appeared in international publications and American network television, earning him over 150 industry awards. With exhibitions in New York, London and Paris, and clients that include The New York Times, Time, BusinessWeek and Polygram, Paul has several works in the permanent collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. He currently holds the position of Full Professor. In 2012, New York's prestigious art journal 3x3 named him "Artist/Educator of the Year." In 2016, he was honoured with OCAD University's "Distinguished Educator Award" which is the highest non-academic honour for alumni achievement.
Carolyne De Bellefeuille
Her work is based on precision, the exactness of the choices and the control of homogeneity. In artistic direction, she has carried out advertising projects for Hermes Paris, Samsung, SODEC, Vallée Duhamel and several other renowned companies. In fiction, she has directed feature film and drama series projects, notably with Xavier Dolan (Adele-Easy on me-The night when Laurier Gaudreault woke up), Lee Daniels (Precious), Roland Emmerich (Midway), Doug Liman (Bourne Identity), Chloé Robichaud (Borders). The city of New York and the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) are among the many clients linked to his architecture and scenography projects.
Saima Desai
Saima Desai has been a journalist and editor for nine years. She was the editor of Briarpatch Magazine from 2018 to 2023. She is currently the features editor of The Grind, a new Toronto culture and politics magazine, and is on the editorial collective of Between The Lines Books.
Charles DesGroseilliers
Directeur artistique pour les publications économiques (Magazine Commerce, Premium, Les Affaires Plus et le journal Les Affaires) de Transcontinental/Groupe Contex depuis 2007. Charles a remporté une douzaine de prix à titre de directeur artistique, dont le plus récent en tant que D.A. indépendant lors du dernier National Magazine Awards pour le Bookzine Macadam.
Nelly Desmarais
Doctorante en recherche-création à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, Nelly Desmarais a travaillé plusieurs années dans l’édition. Son premier livre, Marche à voix basse (Le Quartanier, 2022) a remporté le prix Émile-Nelligan. Crédit: Justine Latour © Le Quartanier
Kevin Donovan
Kevin Donovan is the Toronto Star's Chief Investigative Reporter. His focus is on journalism that exposes wrongdoing and effects change. Over almost four decades he has reported on the activities of charities, government, police, business among other institutions. Kevin also reported from the battlefields in the Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan following 9/11. He has won three National Newspaper Awards, two Governor General's Michener Awards, the Canadian Journalism Foundation award and three Canadian Association of Journalists Awards. Books: the Billionaire Murders; Secret Life: The Jian Ghomeshi Investigation; and the "Dead Times" (a fiction novel).
Hamutal Dotan
Hamutal is an award-winning editor, an editorial advisor, and a teacher of journalism and non-fiction writing with 15 years of experience in magazine, digital, newspaper, and radio journalism. Currently, she is a William Southam Journalism Fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto, where she is researching the history, psychology, and sociology of reading.
Cassandra Drudi
Cassandra Drudi is a writer and editor in Toronto. Her byline has appeared in a number of magazines and newspapers, including Today's Parent, Quill & Quire, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. She is currently senior editor at Quill & Quire.
Nehal El-Hadi
Nehal is the Science+Technology Editor at The Conversation Canada, and Editor-in-Chief of Studio Magazine. Her ongoing research examines human-sand relations, and she holds a residency at Toronto’s Theatre Centre.
Napatsi Folger
Napatsi Folger is an Inuk editor, comic artist, fiction, non-fiction, and children's literature writer from Iqaluit, NU. She now lives in North Vancouver, BC and graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing in 2021. Folger is the Tauttunnguaqti responsible for creative vision for Inuit Art Quarterly. She is also the 2023-2024 Writer and Artist in Residence at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her work has been featured in Studio Magazine, Maisonneuve, Carousel Magazine, Long Con Magazine, Walrus Magazine, Matrix Magazine, Taddle Creek, Word Hoard and Puritan Magazine.
Britt Gallpen
Britt Gallpen is a writer, curator and Editorial Director of Inuit Art Quarterly. Since 2016, she has expanded the magazine’s editorial scope, while paying particular attention to mentoring emerging Indigenous writers. In recognition of her efforts, she was awarded the Magazines Grand Prix’s Editor of the Year, Honourable Mention in 2017. This was followed by four nominations at the National Magazine Awards in 2018 for the IAQ including silver for Best One-of-a-Kind Storytelling and a gold in 2020 for Best Short Feature. In 2022 the IAQ was named Best Magazine: Art, Literary, & Culture and was awarded Magazine Grand Prix, the National Magazine Award’s top prize.
Julie Gobeil
Julie Gobeil évolue dans le monde des magazines québécois depuis 25 ans. Elle a notamment été directrice du contenu de Protégez-Vous, puis chef du pupitre éditorial de L’actualité, avant d’être nommée rédactrice en chef de Châtelaine en octobre 2023.
Raj Grainger
Raj Grainger is a UK-born multidisciplinary graphic designer and creative director who lives and works in Tkaronto (Toronto). He studied conceptual art and media design and currently focuses on editorial, print- and identity-based projects. He likes to collaborate with cultural and educational institutions, non-profits and other creatives. His work has been recognized by Communications Arts, Applied Arts magazine, the Registered Graphic Designers of Canada (RGD), The Advertising & Design Club of Canada and has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards. In 2019 he started his own studio and teaches at the SCHOOLOFDESIGN at George Brown College.
Danielle Groen
Danielle Groen is a Toronto-based writer and editor. Her work has won seven National Magazine Awards and the Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism.
Katia Grubisic
Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has won the Gerald Lampert award and the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, and been shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize and twice for the Governor General’s Award for translation. Katia Grubisic est écrivaine, rédactrice et traductrice. Elle a remporté le prix Gerald Lampert et le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole, et ses œuvres ont été parmi les finalistes au prix A.M. Klein et deux fois au Prix du Gouverneur général. Photo credit: J. Parr.
Mélissa Guillemette
Diplômée de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, Mélissa Guillemette a commencé sa carrière au quotidien Le Devoir avant de prendre un virage magazine à la rédaction de Jobboom. Elle s'est ensuite spécialisée en journalisme scientifique chez Québec Science, où elle a plus tard occupé le rôle de rédactrice en chef. Elle est présentement journaliste indépendante.
Meredith Holigroski
Meredith Holigroski is the senior designer at The Walrus. She has previously worked for the Globe and Mail and Toronto Life, and on publications for the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and many others.
Jude Isabella
Jude Isabella is a science journalist, concentrating on the environment, ecology, and archaeology. She the founding editor, and editor-in-chief, of Hakai Magazine, an online publication focused on coastal science and societies.
Arvin Joaquin
Arvin Joaquin is an award-winning journalist and editor. He is currently a journalist and host of OMNI News: Filipino. He was previously a senior political reporter at The Canadian Press and an associate editor at Xtra Magazine, where he wrote the magazine’s Digital Publishing Award-winning newsletter.
Emmanuel Kattan
Emmanuel Kattan est le directeur du Programme Alliance à l’Université Columbia, une initiative visant à créer des partenariats de recherche et d’enseignement entre Sciences Po, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, l’Ecole Polytechnique et l’Université Columbia. Il a commencé sa carrière à la Délégation générale du Québec au Royaume Uni. Né à Montréal, Emmanuel a étudié à l’Université de Montréal et à Oxford, en tant que Rhodes Scholar. Il a obtenu un doctorat en philosophie de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales à Paris. Il est l’auteur de cinq livres : un essai sur le devoir de mémoire et quatre romans. Son plus récent roman, L’attrapeur d’âmes, est paru aux éditions Leméac en 2019. crédit: Abdibasid Ali
Caitlin Kelly
Former reporter for The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette and New York Daily News, author of “Blown Away: American Women and Guns” (Pocket Books 20024) and “Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail” (Portfolio, 2011), Caitlin Kelly has written for the Financial Times, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Chatelaine, Canadian Business, Maisonneuve, Toronto Life and many more. She won a Canadian National Magazine Award for humor.
Evaan Kheraj
Evaan Kheraj is a New York & Vancouver based photographer whose love for documenting spans decades and genres. Whether it’s editorial, commercial, or fine art, Evaan’s adaptability, sincerity, and work ethic makes him the supreme collaborator. He’s an artist who’s always rallied against what’s common, developing a cohesive aesthetic that reflects just that. When not developing his craft and working on various projects, he’s documenting the lives of his wife and 3 children at home. Past clients include: Elle US, Teen Vogue, Kenneth Cole, Adidas, Warner Brothers Music, Bubly and more.
Courtney Khimji
Courtney Khimji is a communications specialist and entrepreneur, with 16 years of experience leading integrated, interdisciplinary campaigns for blue chip global brands. She is the founder of Chimera Collective, an independent PR firm based in Toronto, and holds a Masters degree in the Humanities from the University of Chicago.
Chelsea Kowalski
Chelsea Kowalski is a reader, writer, and editor. She has edited both fiction and non-fiction pieces for magazines, novels, and published essays. Chelsea is an alumna from both the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, completing programs in English, Creative Writing, and Publishing. She is passionate about all things literary (especially female-driven books) and loves interviewing new authors about their unique stories. Chelsea is happiest when given the chance to write, edit, and help support someone’s dream of reaching readers.
Ben Ladouceur
Ben Ladouceur is an author living in Ottawa. His first book, Otter, was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; his second book, Mad Long Emotion, was awarded the Archibald Lampman Prize. He is the recipient of the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBT+ writers, and a National Magazine Award for Poetry. His third book, a novel called I Remember Lights, will be out in 2025 through Book*Hug Press.
Dominique Lamberton
Dominique Lamberton is a Calgary-based writer and editor with more than a decade of experience in Canadian publishing. Currently, she's the executive editor at Range, a travel and lifestyle publication by Ensemble. Prior to joining the team at Range, she held editorial roles at Avenue, Air Canada enRoute and Chatelaine. Lamberton's work has also appeared in Best Health, the Toronto Star and re:porter.
Joanne Larocque-Poirier
Joanne Larocque-Poirier est la directrice générale des communications et du rayonnement des arts du Conseil des arts du Canada. À ce titre, elle assure l’intégrité de la marque, de la réputation et du cadre d’engagement de la communauté artistique du Conseil. Elle chapeaute également le Programme du droit de prêt public du Conseil et la Banque d’art, ainsi que la multitude de distinctions et de prix qu’octroie le Conseil pour reconnaître et célébrer les contributions extraordinaires aux arts. Le leadership continu dont elle fait preuve à titre de championne des langues officielles préserve la posture du Conseil comme organisation bilingue valorisant les deux langues officielles et en faisant bon usage.
Jason Lau
An award-winning designer and media artist with an MA in Anthropology, Lau’s work draws from his commitment and passion for understanding people, communities, materiality, and culture. Human-centred design and art-making are at the foundation of everything he does. Lau’s work has been recognized internationally by British Design and Art Direction (D&AD), Adobe, and the Association of Registered Graphic Designers.
Christian Leduc
Christian Leduc est rédacteur en chef de Profession Santé, un magazine consacré aux médecins, aux pharmaciens et aux autres professionnels de la santé du Québec. Il est aussi directeur de rédaction de la revue de formation continue Québec Pharmacie. Il détient un baccalauréat en communications publiques et un diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées en journalisme international de l'Université Laval.
Amélie Légaré
Spanning two decades, Amelie’s career has led her from management roles for an agency and newspaper to orchestrating design projects with private, municipal, and corporate clients—where she’s been honoured with numerous awards and industry accolades. For the last 17 years, Amelie has been the Creative Director for Mountain Life Media.
Carly Lewis
Carly Lewis is a journalist living in Toronto. Her work has appeared at The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Wired, Vulture, The Cut, The Atlantic, Elle, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, The Guardian, Interview Magazine, The Fader, Pitchfork, the Toronto Star, Hazlitt, Spin, Maisonneuve and Maclean's. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and Digital Publishing Awards.
Jacqueline Loch
Jacqueline is a branded content/revenue generation expert driving engagement, results, and cultivating C-level relationships. She works closely with SJC’s largest clients to create innovative cross-platform content solutions that deliver on revenue goals and company EBITDA. Previously as VP Group Publisher SJC Media and TC Media she oversaw brands including FASHION, ELLE Canada, Canadian Living, and Style at Home, and was formerly VP Content Solutions Rogers Media. A recognized leader in marketing solutions and media innovation, Jacquie Chairs The Content Council (New York) and is a Board Member for the National Media Awards Foundation and a Co-Founder of Global Voices, an international collective of content marketers.
Jose R. Lopez
Jose R. Lopez is a former staff photographer and picture editor for The New York Times. During his 31 year career at The Times, he was a member of the picture editing staff that won both Pulitzer Prizes for the paper's coverage of the 9-11 attacks.
Lisa Machado
Lisa Machado was a financial journalist until she was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer. She then shifted her focus to health writing, particularly from the perspective of a consumer of healthcare and a caregiver. She is currently the executive producer of Postmedia's health advocacy website, Healthing.ca, and is leading a new content division that supports non-profit patient and caregiver groups called Advocacy & Better Health.
Catherine MacIntosh
Catherine MacIntosh is an editor and writer living in Toronto, Ontario, who has contributed to national and international publications for more than 20 years. She is currently Editor-in-Chief at Designlines magazine.
Kathy Mak
Kathy Mak is a writer and drawer. She is the author of chapbook Another Day (845 Press, 2020). Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in a dozen literary journals including The /tƐmz/Review, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and PRISM International. She creates to capture fleeing moments of life and to reflect on her experiences.
Sandra E. Martin
Sandra E. Martin is The Globe and Mail’s Standards Editor, a role that seeks to ensure The Globe’s journalism is of the highest quality and that the organization is accountable to readers. Trust in media is under constant scrutiny, so the Standards Editor plays an important part in explaining The Globe’s policies and protocols to customers. Sandra addresses complaints regarding accuracy or bias, as well as any questions arising from The Globe’s use of artificial intelligence, supporting The Globe’s commitment to transparency about how we see the benefits and risks.
Valerian Mazataud
Valerian Mazataud is a Montreal based documentary photographer. He shares his time between photojournalism and a photographic art practice. His photo-book «liwa mairin» received an honorable mention from the 2019 Burtynsky Grant. The photography project «The Great North» was shown in various Quebec artists centers, and during the Voies Off Arles festival (France, 2015).
Amanda Merpaw
Amanda Merpaw is a queer and disabled Franco-Ontarian writer, editor, and educator. Her writing has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, carte blanche, CV2, Grain, Plenitude, Prairie Fire, with Playwrights Canada Press, and elsewhere. In 2022, she was shortlisted for Arc's Poem of the Year contest. Her debut chapbook was released in 2021 and her debut poetry collection is forthcoming in 2024 with Palimpsest Press. Currently a contributing editor at Arc Poetry Magazine and on the editorial board of Anstruther Press.
Erik Mohr
Erik’s design career and passion for visual storytelling have spanned over 25 years. His strength in building and leading creative teams has resulted in numerous industry awards from the Society of Publication Designers, the Canadian National Magazine Awards, the Art Directors Club of Canada, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, Magazines du Québec and the Content Council.
Marie Moliner
Marie Moliner, retired after a long community service career to become a full-time care-giver and art agent for her true love, Kevin Whitaker, who has Parkinson’s and Dementia. In her spare time, she is assistant editor for the Townships Sun, Quebec’s only English magazine, celebrating its 50th year providing stories about life and culture: past, present and future in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. She plays clay, practices tai chi and is writing ‘Divine Dementia: Diaries of an Accidental Caregiver’. For identity purposes, she identifies as a racialized second generation Canadian born to immigrants who met in Canada in the 1950s.
Stéphane Monnet
Stéphane Monnet is the president and creative director of Monnet Design, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2024. Stéphane is based in Toronto, Canada, and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is also the former President of the Advertising & Design Club of Canada. In his 25+ year career he has received numerous awards from international design publications and organizations, including the ADCC, AIGA, Applied Arts, Communication Arts, Graphis, HOW, the National Magazine Awards and the New York Type Directors Club.
Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore has a long record in Canadian freelance journalism. His column on history, historians, and historical news and controversies ran in every issue of Canada’s History magazine (and its predecessor The Beaver) from 1991 to 2018 and received three National Magazine Award nominations. He continues to write feature articles as a Canada’s History Contributing Editor.
Deborah Morrison
Deborah is publisher of University Affairs magazine. Previous magazine industry experience includes president and publisher of Canada's History magazine and founding publisher of Kayak: Canada's History magazine for kids; Chair and Board member of Magazines Canada, Manitoba Magazines, and jury member for the National Magazine Awards, OMDC, and the Manitoba Publishing Fund.
Alison Motluk
Alison Motluk is a freelance journalist based in Toronto. She currently focuses on assisted reproduction and its ramifications and publishes a weekly newsletter, HeyReprotech. She has won seven National Magazine Awards.
Sabrina Myre
Journaliste et ancienne correspondante à Jérusalem, Sabrina Myre a réalisé de nombreux reportages tout au long de sa carrière pour permettre aux Canadiens de mieux comprendre le monde qui les entoure, au Québec comme à l’international. Son fil rouge? Les droits de la personne, en particulier ceux des femmes, dans les zones de conflits. Elle est lauréate d’un prestigieux prix en 2023 de l’Association canadienne des journalistes pour ses reportages sur le cauchemar des enfants canadiens détenus en Syrie, diffusés à Radio-Canada. Elle est diplômée de de l’Université McGill et détentrice d'une maîtrise de Sciences Po Paris.
Jadine Ngan
Jadine Ngan (@jadinengan) is a National Magazine Award-nominated writer and photographer with bylines in The Walrus, Macleans, and Toronto Life. She currently lives in Toronto.
Samantha Nock
Samantha Nock is a Cree-Métis writer and poet originally from Treaty 8 Territory in the Peace Region of northeast British Columbia. Her family is originally from sâkitawâhk ᓵᑭᑕᐚᕽ (Île-à-la-Crosse), Saskatchewan. Samantha currently resides on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Lands in so-called Vancouver. She has had works published in Maisonneuve, Vice, Prism International, and Best Canadian Poetry, among others. You can find her on Twitter @sammymarie and Instagram @2broke4bingo.
Philippe Orfali
Philippe Orfali a été journaliste pendant près de quinze ans, couvrant tour à tour les actualités générales, la politique et l'économie pour de nombreux grands quotidiens (Le Droit, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montréal, La Presse). Nommé aux Prix Judith-Jasmin en 2019, il est notamment lauréat d'un Prix du magazine canadien B2B. Il est détenteur d'un baccalauréat en journalisme de l'UQAM et d'une maîtrise en gestion des affaires (MBA) de l'Université d'Ottawa, et travaille aujourd'hui en communications pour un groupe mondial d'investissement.
Sarah Palmer
Sarah Palmer is a freelance photographer and photo editor in Toronto. She has spent the last 10 years at Maclean’s, Studio Wyse and The Globe and Mail as a photo editor working on investigative pieces, in-depth features and breaking news stories.
Émilie Pontbriand
Émilie Pontbriand is the Senior Manager of Strategic Communications at Imagine Canada, overseeing communications, marketing and branding initiatives. Before coming to Imagine Canada, Émilie was the Director of Programs & Communications at the National Media Awards Foundation. Prior to working in the charitable sector, she worked in the music industry for several years as the Marketing Manager for Celinedion.com. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and certificates in Political Science, Public Relations and Translation.
Marie-Paule Primeau
Marie-Paule Primeau is the editor-in-chief of Dire (Université de Montréal) since January 2015. On top of heading Dire, she’s an editor for Protégez-Vous and Verdict santé and a science communication advisor for IVADO. Marie-Paule is currently pursuing graduate studies in publishing at the Université de Sherbrooke. She lives in Montréal.
Jean-François Proulx
Jean-François Proulx est directeur de création et designer du studio Balistique à Montréal. Depuis 2012, il est directeur artistique du magazine Nouveau Projet, travail pour lequel il a été primé aux Prix du magazine canadien.
Jennie Punter
Jennie Punter has been the editor of Musicworks, an arts magazine that explores innovative artists and ideas in music and sound art, since 2013. Jennie has been covering the Canadian film and TV industries and various domestic and international festivals and events as a freelance correspondent to Variety since 2008. From 1992 to 2013, she contributed hundreds of regular film and music reviews and features to the Toronto Star (the '90s) and The Globe and Mail (the 2000s). During that time she was an editor and writer for Music Express and IMPACT magazines, and contributing editor to Flare magazine. She has contributed to many Canadian and international publications. She sits on Magazines Canada's Arts & Literary Magazines Committee.
Bradley Reinhardt
Bradley Reinhardt is an Indigenous Graphic Designer and Artist from Batchewana First Nation of Ojibways in Northern Ontario and is based in Toronto. He has worked as an Art Director at Eye Weekly, Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Toronto International Film Festival and Cottage Life.
Amélie Revert
Amélie Revert is a journalist since 2015. She is now based in Montréal where she’s mostly writing in French as a freelancer about music, visual arts, cinema, TV shows and lifestyle, for Le Devoir and Billboard Canada.
Emily Riddle
Emily Riddle (Okimâw Pipikwan Iskwêw) is Nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation (Kipohtakaw). She is a writer, textile artist, and library worker based in Amisko Waciw Wâskahikan (Edmonton, Canada). In 2022, she released her first full length poetry collection, The Big Melt which won the Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian first book award. Her writing has been published in The Malahat Review, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, among others. Emily Riddle is a dedicated Treaty 6 descendant and a semi-dedicated Edmonton Oilers fan.
Jessica Rose
Jessica Rose is a writer, editor, and reviewer whose work has appeared in publications across Canada. Her writing has appeared in Quill and Quire, Room, rabble.ca, Herizons, This, and the Humber Literary Review. She is a senior editor at the Hamilton Review of Books, a founding editor of The Inlet, the former book reviews editor for THIS Magazine, and a regular contributor to Hamilton City Magazine. Jessica is the current Marketing Manager at gritLIT: Hamilton’s Readers and Writers Festival and sits on the Hamilton Arts Council’s Literary Committee. Her essay “Reclaiming Hamilton Through Artistic and Environmental Interventions” appears in Reclaiming Hamilton: Essays from the New Ambitious City. Her first book for young people will be released by Orca Book Publishers in 2024.
Rosa Saba
Rosa Saba is a business reporter and editor at the Canadian Press, specializing in coverage of labour, the food supply chain and the financial markets. She previously worked at the Toronto Star, and has been recognized by SABEW Canada for her work reporting on self-employed CERB recipients as well as for her overall work as an early-career business reporter. She was granted a Xana fellowship from SABEW in 2023. Outside of her work as a reporter, Rosa is an active advocate for improving the journalism industry, especially for journalists from marginalized communities.
Chyana Marie Sage
Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree, Métis, and Salish writer from Northern Alberta. Her debut personal essay “Soar” won first place in the Edna Staebler Essay Contest 2021, and then went on to win the Silver at the 2022 NMAs. She publishes regularly with HuffPost and her memoir, Soft as Bones, is set to released by House of Anansi January 2025. She graduated with her MFA from Columbia University in 2022 and currently lives in New York City, freelancing and working as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia.
Alexander Sallas
Alexander Sallas is the Editor-at-Large for the Literary Review of Canada and a Ph.D. Candidate in English and Writing Studies at Western University.
Fateema Sayani
Fateema Sayani’s work has been published in magazines and newspapers across Canada, focusing on social issues, policy, pop culture, and the Canadian music scene. She has earned numerous accolades, including the Joan Gullen Award for Media Excellence.
Danielle Sayer
Danielle Sayer, based in Montreal, is the Art Director of Québec Science magazine. Previously serving as Deputy Art Director at Reader’s Digest Canada and Sélection for a decade, she also contributed to the design of indie magazine Worn Fashion Journal.
Sarah Scott
Sarah Scott is publisher of Barlow Books, based in Toronto. Over the past 12 years, Barlow has published over 65 non-fiction books, which sell in stores in Canada and the U.S. Before launching her publishing company, Sarah was a journalist at the Montreal Gazette and a magazine writer for most of the national magazines in Canada. She has won two silver medals and seven honorary mentions at the NMAF and many other national awards for her work.
Zoe Shaw
Zoe Shaw is a writer and editor based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal and is currently the Managing Editor at carte blanche literary magazine. She has worked in communications and administration for nonprofits, publishers, academic departments, and consulting groups.
Marjorie Simmins
Marjorie Simmins is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written two memoirs, Coastal Lives and Year of the Horse, a book on non-fiction writing, Memoir: Conversations and Craft, and a biography of Canadian harness racing legend, Somebeachsomewhere. Raised in Vancouver and now living in Truro, Nova Scotia, Simmins also teaches memoir writing across Canada as well as offering instruction online via Zoom classes.
Danielle Stanton
Danielle Stanton est journaliste indépendante depuis plus de 25 ans. Elle a signé plus d’une centaine d’articles touchant aussi bien la culture que les tendances sociales émergentes ou la science dans de nombreux magazines au Québec (L’actualité, Elle-Québec, La Gazette des femmes, Sélection du Reader’s Digest…) et ailleurs (L’EXPRESS). Elle est également l’auteure de Nous sommes Télé-Québécois (La Presse, 2018) qui retrace le parcours de cette télé publique depuis sa création. Son travail journalistique a été couronné à maintes reprises, notamment par le Prix Justicia, le Prix du magazine canadien et le Prix René-Lévesque.
Carmine Starnino
Carmine Starnino is the Editor-in-Chief of The Walrus.
Angela Sterritt
Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist and national bestselling author from the Gitxsan Nation on her dad’s side and Bell Island Newfoundland on her maternal side. Sterritt worked as a television, radio, and digital journalist at CBC for more than a decade and hosted the award-winning CBC original podcast, Land Back.
Katherine Takpannie
As an urban Inuk, Takpannie grew up with intergenerational trauma, in poverty, around addictions, mental health crises and in and out of foster care. She left home at 13 and never graduated high school. However, Takpannie is a very proud alumni of the Nunavut Sivuniksavut program. Not only did Takpannie learn so much, she was able to be a cultural ambassador: sharing her Inuit culture from the Governor General's Winter Celebration to the Oslo Opera House in Norway. From the National Arts Centre to Hui Malama O Ke Kai in Oahu, she has honoured and celebrated Inuit excellence. Photography has been her way to contribute meaningful art to our Canadian society. Takpannie believes that teaching about her Inuit culture will help people understand our past and present. As well as giving resources to help shape the future with Indigenous people in Canada.
Marine Thomas
Marine Thomas est rédactrice en chef de Les Affaires depuis juillet 2019. Auparavant, elle y occupait les fonctions de directrice de contenu, Journal et Bulletin privilège. Diplômée d'une maîtrise en Management de la culture et des médias de Sciences Po Paris, Marine Thomas est spécialisée dans la presse d’affaires depuis une dizaine d’années. Elle a été vice-présidente du conseil d’administration du Y des femmes, présidente- fondatrice du comité philanthropique Génération W et administratrice de Lire et faire lire.
Jimmy Thomson
Jimmy Thomson is a freelance journalist who has worked in print, broadcast, and online for publications like The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Walrus, The Toronto Star, VICE, The Narwhal, CBC, and PRX. He has reported from nine countries — including every Arctic country — on topics ranging from climate change and mining to war refugees to a budding Chinese environmental movement, and has won a couple dozen awards for his environmental, investigative, news and feature journalism, including a National Magazine Award, a National Newspaper Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Webster Award, and several Canadian Association of Journalists awards.
Michael Tong
Based in Toronto, Michael is the senior art director at Spafax, a global content marketing and media sales agency. He has worked on multimedia projects for a variety of luxury and lifestyle clients including Air Canada, Fairmont, Birks, Lindt, Bombardier, Hudson's Bay, Interac, Ford and Corby Spirit & Wine. A cross-platform creative, Michael brings his interests in food, art, and travel to life through editorial and digital design.
Isa Tousignant
Isa Tousignant is a Montreal-based editor, content strategist and storyteller with a curiosity that runs deeper than most. She has chatted life philosophies with celebrity chefs, gemologists, arena rockers and furries. All were transformative.
Chantal Tranchemontagne
Chantal Tranchemontagne is the founder of Big Catch, a content and communications agency in Eastern Ontario. Her work—including her passion project, Perch magazine—is fuelled by creativity and curiosity.
Martha Troian
Martha is an award-winning independent investigative journalist and writer whose work explores Indigenous politics and history, from missing and murdered Indigenous people to human rights and environmental issues. She writes in multi-genres and media including; investigative, features, podcasting, data, archival, to access-to-information. Martha’s work has appeared in a variety of outlets in Canada and the U.S. She is currently working on several books. Her debut children’s book called “It’s Powwow Time” is scheduled for release in September 2024.
Alison Uncles
Former Maclean’s EIC, currently VP at the Public Policy Forum, a non-partisan think tank. Spent the majority of my 30-year career in journalism in features and projects.
Jennifer Varkonyi
Jennifer Varkonyi is the publisher of Maisonneuve, an award-winning quarterly of arts, opinion and ideas. She served as Chair of the board of Magazines Canada from 2019-2021. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement, presented by the National Magazine Awards. She lives in Montreal.
Stéphanie Verge
Stéphanie Verge is the features editor at Toronto Life. Previously, she was the deputy editor of Reader’s Digest Canada, the co-editor-in-chief of the bilingual queer magazine lstw, and a senior content creative at the creative agency Sid Lee.
René Vézina
René Vézina travaille en communications depuis plus de 45 ans. Diplômé de l'Université Laval en journalisme et sciences politiques, il a commencé sa carrière de journaliste à la radio et à la télé de Radio-Canada en Gaspésie en 1977, avant de passer au réseau national à Montréal. Il s'est ensuite tourné vers le journalisme scientifique avant de s'intéresser à l'économie, qui est depuis devenue son domaine de prédilection.
Patrick Walsh
Outdoor Canada’s editor-in-chief since 2000, Patrick Walsh is a past-president of the NMAF and a former chair of Magazines Canada’s membership committee. He also spearheaded two Magazines Canada task forces on advertising-editorial guidelines, and was named the association’s 2009 Volunteer of the Year. In 2005, 2011 and 2012, the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors named him Editor of the Year. He was inducted into the Canadian Angler Hall of Fame last year.
Karin Watson
Karin Watson is Director, Business Operations at Creative BC. Previously, she worked with Emily Carr University of Art and Design for close to three years, most recently in the capacity of Digital Strategist and before that as their Media Relations and Communications lead. Karin also spent five years as an independent professional consultant, providing strategic and hands-on expertise to organizations in the areas of brand positioning, marketing and communications; human resources and employee engagement; as well as operations and organizational development.
Shannon Webb-Campbell
Shannon Webb-Campbell is of Mi’kmaq and settler heritage. She is a member of Flat Bay First Nation. Her books include: the forthcoming Re: Wild Her (Book*hug 2025), Lunar Tides (2022), I Am a Body of Land (2019), and Still No Word (2015), which was the recipient of Egale Canada’s Out in Print Award. Shannon is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick, and the editor of Visual Arts News Magazine and Muskrat Magazine.
David Webb
David Webb is the President of Explore Outdoor Media Inc., publisher and editor-in-chief of Explore Magazine and host of Explore's "Live the Adventure Podcast." He is also an engaging writer with hundreds of bylines to his name, in multiple medias and on topics ranging from outdoor adventure, to international travel, to local culture, to current events and more. Webb has been recognized at the National Magazine Awards (6x), Explore Canada Awards of Excellence (3x), Western Magazine Awards, IRMA Awards (6x) and the Canadian Newsstand Marketing Awards (3x).
Lisa Whittington-Hill
Lisa Whittington-Hill is the publisher of This Magazine. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, The Walrus, Catapult, Hazlitt, The Globe and Mail, and more. She was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the personal journalism category in 2022. She is the author of a book in the 33 1/3 music series on Beauty and the Beat by The Go-Go's. Girls, Interrupted, her collection of essays on how pop culture is failing women, will be published by Vehicule Press in Fall 2023.
Sigrun Wister
Wister has been in the publishing industry since my start at the National Post Business magazine in 2001. Wister changed paths in their design career by working for a large media organization and managing a team of designers...a place where Wister's editorial skills came into play.
Eleni Zaptses
Eleni Zaptses is a fiction writer living in Waterloo, Ontario. She is also the Managing Editor of The New Quarterly.
Barbara Zatyko
Barbara Zatyko was the Vice President, Operations & Development, at Magazines Canada from 2005-2018 and the Managing Editor of Geist from 1995-2005. BZ served on the Board of Directors for Magazines Canada for 6 years. Her previous roles include President of the BC Association of Magazine Publishers, Publisher of the International 3-Day Novel Writing Contest, Publisher of Canadian Magazines Canadiens and Director of MagNet: Canada's Magazine Conference. She holds a Master of Publishing degree from Simon Fraser University.