42 Canadian journalists

Jelena Adzic is a Canadian on-air personality known for her straightforward interviewing style. She is the national Arts and Entertainment journalist at the CBC News Network in Toronto.

Rhea Clyman (1904–1981) was a Canadian journalist who travelled the USSR and reported about the Holodomor. She was famously expelled from the USSR in 1932.

Joseph Couture is a Canadian journalist, author and social activist.

Declan Hill is a journalist, academic and consultant. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on match-fixing and corruption in international sports. In 2008, Hill, as a Chevening Scholar, obtained his doctorate in Sociology at the University of Oxford. Currently, he is a senior research fellow in anti-corruption in sports at the University of Würzburg and a professor at the University of New Haven.

Thomas Gregory Michael Hnatiw was a Canadian motor journalist and live motor race announcer.

Carl Honoré is a Canadian journalist who wrote the internationally best-selling book In Praise of Slow (2004) about the Slow Movement.

Fred Jacob was a journalist with Toronto's The Mail and Empire, and joined the publication after winning the publication's poetry contest.

Ian Johnson is a Beijing-based writer and independent scholar. His Chinese name is Zhang Yan (張彦).

Richard Johnson is a Canadian journalist and war artist.

Peter Ladner is a former Vancouver city councilor, Metro Vancouver vice-chair and business owner.

Bram Lebo is a Canadian lawyer and businessperson resident in Dysart et al, Ontario, Canada.

William Pittman Lett was an Irish Canadian journalist, bureaucrat and poet. He arrived in Upper Canada as a 10-month-old baby in the family of Captain Andrews Lett, a veteran of the 28th Cameronian Regiment of Foot and a pioneer of the settlement of Richmond. A journalist for the Orange Order, a Tory and loyal to the British Crown, William Pittman was a founding father and chronicler of Bytown, subsequently the City of Ottawa, and its first and longest-serving civic clerk (1855–1891). He promoted theatre in Ottawa and its learned societies and was a prolific commentator and poet of public affairs throughout the second half of the 19th century.

Alexander Mackenzie, was a Scottish-Canadian politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada, in office from 1873 to 1878.

Malka Marom is a Canadian writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, folksinger and dancer. She is best known for her music career as part of the folksinging duo Malka & Joso in the 1960s, her radio documentaries, and more recently her novel Sulha (1999) and book Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words (2014).

Heather Marsh is a philosopher, programmer and human rights activist. She is the author of the Binding Chaos series, a study of methods of mass collaboration and the founder of Getgee, a project to create a global data commons and trust network.

James Bryson (J.B.) McLachlan was a prominent Canadian trade unionist, journalist and progressive political activist.

Micheal John O'Brien is a Canadian commercial pilot, humanitarian leader, journalist,musician, and politician, who was declared a winner on election night, November 21, 1988 and despite recounts that went back and forth, he was sworn into office as elected and made his Maiden Speech in the House of Commons of Canada on 23 December 1988.

Alexander Fraser Pirie was a Canadian journalist and newspaper editor.

(Alfred) Stephen Probyn (1951–2008) was one of North America's foremost authorities on green energy and the independent power industry. Probyn was best known as a financier, entrepreneur, regulatory expert, and advisor to governments on energy and environmental policy.

Nelson Rand is a freelance journalist living in Bangkok, Southeast Asia. He is an editor for The Nation newspaper and a regular contributor to the Asia Times. He has also worked as a political contractor for the Embassy of Canada in Thailand.

Raheel Raza is a Pakistani-Canadian journalist, author, public speaker, media consultant, pro-Israel, anti-racism activist, and interfaith discussion leader. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

David Ridgen is an award-winning independent Canadian filmmaker born in Stratford, Ontario. He has worked for CBC Television, MSNBC, NPR, TVOntario and others. He is currently the writer, producer and host of CBC Radio’s true-crime podcast series, Someone Knows Something.

John Ross Robertson was a Canadian newspaper publisher, politician, and philanthropist in Toronto, Ontario.

Michael James Rodden was a Canadian sports journalist, National Hockey League referee, and Canadian football coach, and was the first person elected to both the Hockey Hall of Fame (1962) and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1964).

Robert Baldwin Ross was a Canadian-British journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend, and literary executor. A grandson of the Canadian reform leader Robert Baldwin, and son of John Ross and Augusta Elizabeth Baldwin, Ross was a pivotal figure on the London literary and artistic scene from the mid-1890s to his early death, and mentored several literary figures, including Siegfried Sassoon. His open homosexuality, in a period when male homosexual acts were illegal, brought him many hardships.

Samah Sabawi is a Palestinian playwright, author and poet. Her plays include Cries from the Land (2003), Three Wishes (2008), Tales of a City by the Sea (2014), and Them (2019). Sabawi's essays and opeds have appeared in The Australian, Al Jazeera, Al-Ahram, The Globe and Mail, The Age, and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a frequent guest/co-presenter on 774 ABC Melbourne's Jon Faine's Conversation Hour. She appeared alongside Israeli writer Ari Shavit, BBC News New York and UN Correspondent Nick Bryant, actress Miriam Margolyes, and numerous others.

Zander Sherman is a Canadian author and journalist.

Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood was a Newfoundlander and Canadian politician. He was the main force who brought the Dominion of Newfoundland into the Canadian Confederation in 1949, becoming the first premier of Newfoundland, serving until 1972. As premier, he vigorously promoted economic development, championed the welfare state, and emphasized modernization of education and transportation. Smallwood was a socialist in philosophy, noting in a 1974 documentary that he considered the People's Republic of China to be the ideal social state; he would nonetheless collaborate with bankers, turning against the multiple unions that sponsored numerous strikes. The results of his efforts to promote industrialization were mixed, with the most favourable results in hydroelectricity, iron mining and paper mills.

BBC Persian Television is the BBC's Persian language news channel that was launched on 14 January 2009. The service is broadcast by satellite and is also available online. It is aimed at the 120 million Persian-speakers in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Joseph Tassé was a Canadian writer, translator, and parliamentarian.

James Davis Taylor was a Canadian publisher, journalist, soldier and Conservative politician. As a member of the Ottawa Sharpshooters, Taylor was involved in resisting the 1885 North-West Rebellion. As a Lieutenant Colonel during World War I he commanded the 131st Battalion overseas.

Joan Thomas is a Canadian novelist and book reviewer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Thomas Phillips Thompson was an English-born journalist and humorist who was active in the early socialist movement in Canada.

Frederick William Wallace was a journalist, photographer, historian and novelist. He was the author of Wooden Ships and Iron Men, a now-classic 1924 book about the last days of the Age of Sail in Maritime Canada. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he initially worked as a clerk but turned to the sea as a journalist of the fishing industry which later led to historical work. Wallace served in World War I as commander of a Q-Ship. He died in Montreal on July 15, 1958.

Max Wallace is a Canadian journalist and historian specializing in the Holocaust, human rights in sport, and popular culture. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, and long-time human rights activist.

Ethelwyn Wetherald was a Canadian poet and journalist, published across Canada and the United States.

Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton was a Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa. She was the first woman mayor of a major city in Canada, serving from 1951 to 1956 and again from 1960 to 1964. Whitton was a Canadian social policy pioneer, leader and commentator, as well as a journalist and writer.

Frederick George H. Williams was an English–Canadian journalist, writer, and historian.

Sir John Stephen Willison, FRSC was a Canadian newspaperman, author, and businessman.

Erastus Wiman was a Canadian journalist and businessman who later moved to the United States. He is best known as a developer in the New York City borough of Staten Island.

Wong Foon Sien, also simply known as Foon Sien, was a Canadian journalist and labour activist. He devoted time to a number of civil and human rights organizations, was one of the early leaders of the Chinese Benevolent Association in Vancouver, and was "perhaps the most influential person" in the city's Chinatown. He was sometimes referred to as the "spokesman for Chinatown", or as "mayor of Chinatown" by Vancouverites, to the resentment of some Chinese Canadians in the community.

Henry Joseph Woodside was a Canadian businessman, journalist, writer, and photographer.