Michelle Shephard

Michelle Shephard
Born1972 (age 51–52)
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Author, journalist, filmmaker
SpouseJim Rankin
AwardsMichener Award, National Newspaper Awards

Michelle Shephard (born 1972) is an independent investigative reporter (previously with the Toronto Star newspaper), author and filmmaker.[1] She has been awarded the Michener Award for public service journalism and won Canada's top newspaper prize, the National Newspaper Award, three times.[2] In 2011, she was an associate producer on a documentary called Under Fire: Journalists in Combat.[3] She produced the National Film Board documentary, Prisoners of the Absurd, which premiered at Amsterdam's film festival in 2014.[4] Shephard also co-directed a film based on her book about Omar Khadr, Guantanamo's Child, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015.[5]

Shephard was the 2015 recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy.[6][7]

  1. ^ Anna Maria Tremonti (2009-01-22). "The Current". CBC News. Retrieved 2013-01-15. For her thoughts on all of this, we were joined by Michelle Shephard. She's a reporter with the Toronto Star and the author of Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr and she was in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
  2. ^ MichelleShephard.ca, Bio
  3. ^ "Charles Lynch award". Toronto Star. 2011-11-20. Archived from the original on 2012-06-11. Retrieved 2013-01-15. This has been an excellent past few days for women at the Toronto Star. One of my colleagues, Michelle Shephard, has a film credit as associate producer for the documentary, Under Fire: Journalists in Combat, which is on the short list for an Oscar nomination.
  4. ^ "Michelle Shephard". IMDb. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
  5. ^ ""Guantanamo's Child": Michelle Shephard on Omar Khadr's case". Retrieved 2015-09-21.
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