Emma Gilchrist Explained

Emma Gilchrist
Birth Place:Northern Alberta
Nationality:Canadian
Known For:Editor-in-Chief, The Narwhal

Emma Gilchrist is the Canadian co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Narwhal.

Gilchrist was the executive director of DeSmog environmental blog and the past president of Press Forward association of Canadian independent media outlets.

Early life and education

Gilchrist is from rural Northern Alberta[1] and has a journalism degree from Mount Royal University[2] who awarded her a Horizon Award in 2015.[3]

Career

Gilchrist has worked as a reporter in the United Kingdom and Canada, and has worked at the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun. She created a weekly column at the Calgary Herald called The Green Guide which won a Canadian Newspaper Association Great Ideas Award.[4]

Gilchrist was the executive director of DeSmog environmental blog[5] and was credited for providing content for Donald Gutstein's 2018 book The Big Stall.[6] In 2018, she co-founded The Narwhal with Carol Linnitt.[7] [8] In 2018 she accepted four Canadian Online Publishing Awards on behalf of The Narwhal[9] and in 2021 was part of a team that won a 2021 Digital Publishing Award for Best Digital Editorial Package for their report Carbon Cache.[10]

Gilchrist is the past chair of Press Forward association of independent Canadian news organizations.[11]

She won a Clean50 sustainability award in 2022.

Selected photography

Personal life

Gilchrist lives in Victoria.[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Emma Gilchrist Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director . 2022-03-30 . The Narwhal . en.
  2. Web site: Journalism alumna forges her own path MRU . 2022-03-30 . www.mtroyal.ca . en.
  3. Web site: Alumni Achievement Awards 2015 Summit MRU . 2022-03-30 . www.mtroyal.ca . en.
  4. Web site: The Brand is Female . 2022-03-30 . The Brand is Female . en-US.
  5. Web site: 2017-09-18 . Emma Gilchrist . 2022-03-30 . Clean50 . en-CA.
  6. Gutstein, D. (2018). The Big Stall: How Big Oil and Think Tanks are Blocking Action on Climate Change in Canada. United States: James Lorimer Limited, Publishers. p265
  7. Web site: New media ventures continue to pop up in Canada — and they're helping fill gaps . 2022-03-30 . OrilliaMatters.com . 14 March 2022 . en.
  8. Web site: Mckenzie . Kevin Hinton & Ryan . BCBusiness . 2022-03-30 . BCBusiness . 13 May 2021 . en.
  9. Web site: Thiessen . Connie . 2018-11-15 . RDS, The Narwhal among big winners at Canadian Online Publishing Awards . 2022-03-30 . Broadcast Dialogue . en-US.
  10. Web site: News . 2022-03-30 . Digital Publishing Awards . 10 June 2021 . en-CA.
  11. News: Gilchrist . Emma . 2021-03-02 . Opinion: Canada should be supporting journalism's future, not its past . en-CA . The Globe and Mail . 2022-03-30.
  12. Web site: 2019-05-15 . Meet Emma Gilchrist, Editor-in-Chief of The Narwhal . 2022-03-30 . Feverish News . en-US.

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