Gary Mason (journalist)

Gary Mason is a Canadian journalist. He currently is the national affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail, and covers events in western Canada from a Vancouverite perspective.

Biography

Mason grew up in Tsawassen.[1]

Mason graduated from Langara College's journalism program. He started his career with the Victoria Times Colonist before moving to the Vancouver Sun, where he worked for nineteen years[2][3] as sports section editor and provincial political affairs.[1]

Mason was hired by the Globe as part of an effort to expand the publication to British Columbia readers in 2005; his familiarity to local readers was a factor in his hiring.[4]

Awards

In 2015, he received the Jack Webster Foundation's Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award.[5]

Books

In 1989, Mason and Keith Baldrey authored Fantasyland: Inside the Reign of Bill Vander Zalm.[1]

With his wife, Barbara Gunn, Mason wrote three books about hockey: The Coolest Guys; Guardians: The Secret Life of Goalies; and The Coolest Guys II.[1]

Mason authored Oldtimers: On the Road with the Legendary Heroes of Hockey in 2002.[1]

In 2011, Mason was hired to be the co-author of John Furlong's memoir, Patriot Hearts: Inside the Games that Changed a Country.[6]

References
  1. "Mason Gary". BC BookWorld. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  2. "Gary Mason". Outstanding Alumni. Langara College. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  3. "Gary Mason". Authors - The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  4. Leaf, Aaron (Spring 2006). "Mission Possible". Ryerson Review of Journalism. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  5. "Globe columnist Gary Mason receives Lifetime Achievement Award". News Media Canada. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  6. Makin, Bob (September 27, 2012). "Furlong's co-author Mason says he was told nothing about Burns Lake". The Tyee. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
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