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

Emma Gilchrist
Born
Northern Alberta
NationalityCanadian
Known forEditor-in-Chief, 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

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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

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Gilchrist has worked as a reporter in the United Kingdom and Canada, and has worked at the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun.[1] She created a weekly column at the Calgary Herald called The Green Guide which won a Canadian Newspaper Association Great Ideas Award.[1][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.[5]

Selected photography

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Personal life

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Gilchrist lives in Victoria.[12]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Emma Gilchrist Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director". The Narwhal. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  2. ^ "Journalism alumna forges her own path | MRU". www.mtroyal.ca. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  3. ^ "Alumni Achievement Awards 2015 | Summit | MRU". www.mtroyal.ca. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  4. ^ "The Brand is Female". The Brand is Female. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  5. ^ a b "Emma Gilchrist". Clean50. 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  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. ^ "New media ventures continue to pop up in Canada — and they're helping fill gaps". OrilliaMatters.com. 14 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  8. ^ Mckenzie, Kevin Hinton & Ryan (13 May 2021). "BCBusiness". BCBusiness. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  9. ^ Thiessen, Connie (2018-11-15). "RDS, The Narwhal among big winners at Canadian Online Publishing Awards". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  10. ^ "News". Digital Publishing Awards. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  11. ^ Gilchrist, Emma (2021-03-02). "Opinion: Canada should be supporting journalism's future, not its past". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  12. ^ "Meet Emma Gilchrist, Editor-in-Chief of The Narwhal". Feverish News. 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
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