About the Author

• Author: Mark Bourrie
• Pages: 220-220

220

About the Author

Mark Bourrie holds a master’s degree in journalism and a PhD in

media history (with a thesis on press censorship in the Second World

War), as well as completing a diploma program in public policy and

a Juris Doctor degree. He was a journalist from 1978 until 2017. His

newspaper journalism appeared in most major Canadian papers,

and his magazine articles were published by, among others, Toronto

Life, Saturday Night, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Canadian Lawyer, e

National, and Oawa Magazine. Mark won a National Magazine Award

and was a four-time nominee. He was also nominated for a National

Newspaper Award and won several Ontario Newspaper Awards. Mark

taught journalism and media studies at Concordia University from

2007–2009. In 2020, he was awarded the RBC Charles Taylor Prize for

literary non-ction for his bestselling book Bush Runner: e Adventures

of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. Mark is a member of the bar of Ontario, con-

centrating on cases that have a nexus between law and politics, and on

media law. He continues to write non-ction books and rather infre-

quent op-ed pieces.