Globe Personalities

Phillip Crawley, Publisher and Chief Executive Officer

Phillip Crawley is the Publisher and CEO of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s National Newspaper. He oversees the strategy and operations of The Globe and Mail newspaper, web sites including globeandmail.com, reportonbusiness.com, globeinvestor.com, and globefund.com, and magazines including Report on Business, Globe Investor, Report on [Small] Business, and tq (tech quarterly.)

Since joining the organization in 1998, Crawley has guided The Globe and Mail through intense newspaper competition, led it to highly successful leadership in new media and online products, and achieved strong results in readership performance and advertising revenue, while maintaining high standards for editorial and production quality.

During his tenure, The Globe and Mail and its staff have won 39 National Newspaper Awards, and been honoured by organizations including the Canadian Association of Journalists, World Editors Forum, Society for News Design, International Newspaper Colour Quality Club, National Magazine Awards, the Canadian Journalists Foundation, Michener Awards, PEN Canada, and the News Photographers Association of Canada.

Prior to joining The Globe and Mail, Crawley held a variety of senior executive positions with some of the world’s leading newspaper and media companies in Europe, Asia and New Zealand. From 1997 to 1998 he was the Managing Director of The New Zealand Herald, and later the C.E.O. Designate of Wilson & Horton, New Zealand’s largest media group. Between 1993 and 1997 he was Managing Director, The Times Supplements, London. From 1988 to 1993 he was Editor, then Editor-in-Chief of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and Editorial Director of Asia Magazine. Between 1987 and 1988 he was Northern Editor, The Daily Telegraph, London, and between 1979 and 1987 he was Editor of The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to 1979, Crawley worked in various editorial roles for Thomson Regional Newspapers.

He is chairman of the Canadian Press, a board member of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and chairman of the Charter for Business which raises funds for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Canada. He is also a member of cabinet for the United Way of Toronto, a board member of Canadian Newspaper Association, and a member of the campaign cabinet for the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Crawley was born in Northumberland, England and graduated in English Language and Literature at Manchester University. He resides in Toronto.

 

Christie Blatchford

Christie Blatchford has won two National Newspaper Awards and is the most recent winner of the Governor-General’s Literary Award, Non-Fiction.

But to most Canadians, she's the columnist who tells it like it is, or at least as she sees it. She does so fearlessly, whether it's from the courtroom or the frontlines of Afghanistan.

Born in the hard rock mining town of Rouyn-Noranda where she spent her early years, she studied journalism at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, now Ryerson University.

Her first job was with The Globe and Mail as a ground-breaking sports reporter and columnist for six years.

That was followed by stints at the Toronto Star, the Sun and the National Post before she returned to the Globe in 2003.

Her range is as broad as her opinions are strong and she covers everything from the Olympics, to aboriginal affairs, the intricacies of legal aid, politics, her passion for running, along with major trials across Canada.

And of course, she has written once or twice about Obie, her bull-terrier housemate in downtown Toronto.

 

Ian Brown, Feature Writer

Ian Brown is well-known for his work as a roving feature writer in The Globe and Mail; on CBC Radio, where he was most recently the host of Talking Books for more than a decade; and for his work on television, where he hosts two documentary shows on TVOntario. Ian grew up in Montreal, and attended Trinity College at the University of Toronto, and later the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course at Harvard (where he was later a writing instructor).

After college he went to work for the Financial Post, Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, and as a freelancer for many Canadian and American magazines. He was the host of Later the Same Day and Sunday Morning on CBC, and has contributed to This American Life and other programs on National Public Radio on the United States. He is the author of three books: FreeWheeling, about Canadian Tire and the Billes family, which won the National Business Book Award; Man Overboard (which he wrote while he lived in Los Angeles for five years); and (this year) The Boy in the Moon. He also edited What I Meant to Say, a popular anthology of writing by men for women, and was a co-founder of Open Letters, one of the first online magazines of first-person journalism. He has won four National Newspaper Awards and half a dozen National Magazine Awards for his writing about politics and sports and business and religion and even housekeeping. His passions are reading, ski mountaineering, and painting very, very badly.

He lives in Toronto with his wife, the writer Johanna Schneller, their two children, Hayley and Walker, and their border terrier, Ginny.

 

Beppi Crosariol, Wine Columnist

Beppi Crosariol was steeped in wine from an early age. His father grew grapes in Italy before immigrating to Canada, and every fall he would help his dad press homemade zinfandel out of California grapes. Though he’s never strayed far from a good pinot noir, Beppi spent much of his career in the less-hedonistic trenches of journalism. As a business reporter, he worked at several newspapers, including The Boston Globe and Financial Times of Canada. A winner of a National Magazine Award for Investigative Journalism, he holds a master’s degree in the philosophy of science and was a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Beppi joined The Globe in 1995 and has been writing the Saturday wine column for 8 years in addition to covering corporate law and technology. He now also writes a beverage-trends column on Wednesdays and contributes food features to the Globe Life section.

Although he believes travel and tasting are the best teachers when it comes to wine, he earned a higher certificate with distinction from the London-based Wine and Spirit Education Trust, scoring 98 out of 100 on his final exam.

 

Eric Reguly, Rome-based Business Correspondent

Eric Reguly joined The Globe and Mail in November of 1997. He has an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English and French Literature and a Masters in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario. He has worked for a number of publications, including the Times of London, The Financial Post in New York and London, England, the Financial Times of Canada, Alberta Report magazine and the London (Ontario) Free Press.

Until April, 2007, when he became The Globe's European business correspondent, based in Rome, Eric wrote the paper's main business column from Toronto. He also co-hosted a daily business programme on BNN, formerly Report on Business Television, and contributed to several magazines and web sites, including The Globe’s Report on Business Magazine, thefirstpost.co.uk and Time Canada. He is a regular guest on CBC Radio and makes speeches about business issues. Eric has won several awards for his work, including, in 2007, the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism.

Eric was born in Vancouver, grew up in Toronto, Washington D.C. and Rome and has Canadian and Italian citizenship. He and Karen have two daughters, Arianna and Emma, who will, their father expects, become dazzling Italian soccer stars.

 

Elizabeth Renzetti, London arts correspondent

Elizabeth Renzetti's career in journalism has not yet taken her to the high seas, but so far encompassed newspapers, magazines, television, radio and books. At the Globe and Mail, Elizabeth has been the editor of the Books and Review sections, as well as a columnist and critic, and is currently a member of the Globe's European bureau. Her stories have appeared in a variety of Canadian and U.S. magazines, including Report on Business, Chatelaine, Maclean's and More, and she has contributed to best-selling anthologies of non-fiction writing.

Elizabeth was born and raised in Toronto, and has lived in Los Angeles and London. Before discovering journalism, she worked as a Hansard editor at Queen's Park and also as a groom in a stable. She currently lives in London with her husband Doug Saunders, their two children, and a cat with no sense of direction.

 

Lisa Rochon, architecture critic

Lisa Rochon is the architecture critic for The Globe and Mail, and the two-time winner of the National Newspaper Awards (2005, 2006) for Arts and Entertainment.

Her book on the significance of modern Canadian architecture - and its deep connection to the Canadian landscape - is titled UP NORTH: Where Canada’s Architecture Meets the Land. The book launched at the 2005 International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront and is now in its second hardcover printing. From 1998 - 2004, Lisa taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. Her graduate seminar on the reconstruction of devastated cities followed the tragic events at the World Trade Center.

Lisa is regularly invited to speak across Canada about architecture, and serves as a guest critic for student design reviews, most recently at the University of Toronto and Cornell University. She is frequently interviewed on CBC TV, CBC Radio and Radio Canada about architecture, mega cultural projects and city building.

She holds an M.A. in Urban Design Studies from the University of Toronto. Before that, Lisa studied international relations at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris. Her honours degree in journalism and French was completed at Carleton University, Ottawa.

For more on Lisa Rochon’s writing and public speaking events, please visit her website: www.lisarochon.com

 

Doug Saunders, Chief of the Globe’s London-based European Bureau

Doug Saunders is the chief of the Globe and Mail's London-based European Bureau, writes the weekly Reckoning column in the Focus section as well as daily reports and weekly features on European issues and international social and political trends. He has been a writer with the Globe since 1995.

He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and educated in Toronto. After early success in magazines and journalistic research, he first worked for the Globe and Mail as a general news reporter, then as an editorial writer and feature writer. In 1996, he joined the weekend section where he created a specialized writing position on media, culture, advertising and popular phenomena. In 1999, he became the paper's Los Angeles bureau reporter, covering both social and political stories in the American west and the broader developments in wider U.S. society.

He has won the National Newspaper Award, the Canadian counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on four occasions, including an unprecedented three consecutive awards for critical writing in 1998-2000, and an award honouring Reckoning as Canada’s best column in 2006. He has also won the Stanley McDowell Prize for writing and has been shortlisted for a National Magazine Award.

In 2002, he returned to Toronto, where he took a position as a roving international-affairs writer. He launched a column in the Focus section aimed at examining developments in the world of intellectual and political ideas, keyed to current news developments.

He began working in the European bureau in 2004. Aside from his coverage of European affairs, he has done extensive writing from the Middle East, Russia and the Indian subcontinent.

 

Lucy Waverman, Food columnist and cookbook author

One of Canada’s favourite culinary personalities, Lucy Waverman brings her sharp wit and mouth-watering recipes to aspiring home chefs across the country as celebrated author, editor, columnist and teacher. Lucy appears regularly on television and radio shows across Canada and the United States including 12 years with CityTV’s CityLine. Her Saturday food column “Weekend Menu,” appears weekly in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s most read and respected national newspaper.

Lucy is the author of nine cookbooks, including the award-winning Lucy’s Kitchen, Home for Dinner, and A Matter of Taste, which she co-wrote with fellow wine writer, James Chatto. A Matter of Taste was also a finalist for the prestigious James Beard Entertaining Award.

In addition to her weekly column and cookbooks, Lucy is the food editor at Food & Drink, a magazine published by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. She contributed to the new Toronto Insight Guide writing about the Toronto food scene as well as doing the restaurant reviews and she writes about food travel for Gayot.com the internet restaurant and travel guide.

In 2005, Lucy was presented with the Gold Award in Food Media/Journalism by the Ontario Hostelry Association for her efforts in mentoring young talent and for educating the public about cooking and world cuisines through her writing and teaching.

Volunteer activities include the board of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, Second Harvest, the food recovery agency and currently Necessary Angel Theatre Company. She edited Impossible Pie as a fund raiser for Sick Children Hospital and The Chef’s Table for Second Harvest.

Lucy trained at Cordon Bleu, has an Ontario Teachers' Certificate and a degree in journalism. From 1972 to 1990, Lucy owned and directed The Cooking School, a Toronto school devoted to the teaching of good cooking.