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Ian Gill

Ian Gill is Discourse Media’s president. He is a columnist with The Tyee and the author of four books, including No News Is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse — And What Comes Next. Ian has worked at the Vancouver Sun as senior reporter and editor and with CBC as a radio columnist and award-winning documentary reporter. He is a former fellow of Journalistes en Europe and served for several years on the board of Canada’s Centre for Investigative Journalism. In 1994, Ian founded Ecotrust Canada, a Vancouver-based non-profit working in coastal communities. Ian has worked extensively with philanthropic foundations and non-profits in Canada, the U.S. and his native Australia. In 2015, Ian was a senior fellow with the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation.

Ian's Latest Articles

Newsletter: $50 million to support local journalism? Let’s talk

The government should engage with Canada’s digital journalism innovators over how the money could best be spent.

Discourse Media's Anita Li, Ian Gill and Francesca Fionda
Sales manager, Discourse Media

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Foundations and philanthropic organizations should be allowed to support journalism in Canada
Being the bearer of bad news

On the road with a new book on the state of Canadian media

Power struggle in northern B.C. deepens as pressure to approve LNG builds

Lax Kw’alaams hereditary chief accuses band members, local newspaper of defamation for questioning legitimacy of his claim to chiefdom