Emma Gilchrist

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

Gilchirst 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.[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
  • Photos of Site C Dam site by Emma Gilchrist
  • Peace Valley from a lookout on Highway 29 between Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope, 2014
    Peace Valley from a lookout on Highway 29 between Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope, 2014
  • Signs protesting the Site C dam along Highway 29 between Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope, 2014
    Signs protesting the Site C dam along Highway 29 between Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope, 2014
  • Protest sign near Site C dam site, 2014
    Protest sign near Site C dam site, 2014
  • The Peace River, 2014
    The Peace River, 2014

Personal life

Gilchrist lives in Victoria.[12]

References
  1. "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. "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. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  8. Mckenzie, Kevin Hinton & Ryan. "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. 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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