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EDWARD GREENSPON
Edward Greenspon is Editor-in-Chief
of The Globe and Mail and writes a thrice-a-week
column called Inside Politics.
From April 1999 to October 2000,
he served as executive editor of The Globe and
Mail. In this capacity, he was in charge of the
Globe's news operations. He also was responsible during
that period for designing and carrying out the editorial
plan for the real-time Internet news operation on
globeandmail.com.
Edward is best known for his political
coverage, first as The Globe and Mail’s
Ottawa bureau chief and then as its political editor.
His knowledge of the Canadian political scene is without
peer. Greenspon’s background in business and
economic reporting grounds his work and adds contextual
knowledge often lacking in the media.
He has an honours degree in journalism
and political science from Carleton University in Ottawa
and was a Commonwealth Scholar at the London School of Economics;
earning a master's degree in politics and government.
Edward Greenspon began his journalism
career at the Lloydminster Times and also worked for
the Regina Leader-Post and Financial
Post before joining The Globe in 1986.
He started at The Globe as a business reporter
specializing in media industries. He later served
as the paper's first European business correspondent,
based in London in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
He covered the economic integration of Europe and
took an early interest in globalization, writing a
series for The Globe on the global ambitions
of Canadian companies such as Bombardier and Northern
Telecom.
His time in Europe coincided with
some of the great economic and political upheavals
of the late 20th century. Edward was a witness to
the Polish roundtable that led to the end of communist
rule. He covered the revolution in Romania that overthrew
strongman Nicolae Ceausescu. He was in Berlin in the
aftermath of the fall of the wall and attended the
unification of the two Germanies. He traveled to the
Soviet Union for the aborted 1991 coup against Mikhail
Gorbachev and was in the Ukrainian Parliament for
that country's declaration of independence. He chronicled
the economic and political integration of Western
Europe and the fall of Margaret Thatcher.
Upon returning to Canada, he worked
as managing editor of the Report on Business and deputy
managing editor of the entire newspaper before taking
up the duties of Ottawa bureau chief in 1993.
In Ottawa, he indulged in his twin
loves of politics and economics. He co-authored a
best-selling book on the Chretien government's struggles
with the deficit and with the 1995 referendum. The
book, Double Vision, The Inside Story of the Liberals
in Power, was a co-winner of the 1996 Douglas Purvis
Award for the best piece of policy writing in Canada.
In the fall of 2001, he and pollster Darrell Bricker
published Searching for Certainty: Inside the New
Canadian Mindset. In 2002 Edward received The Hyman
Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism.
Edward Greenspon is a familiar figure
as a political pundit. In addition to Question Period,
he appears regularly on TVO's Studio Two, ROB-TV's
The Bottom Line and is an occasional contributor to
CBC-TV's At Issue panel.
He is married to university professor Janice Neil.
They have three fabulous children. |
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