Get the story behind the stories with a unique look into The Globe’s newsroom.

The Globe and Mail is Canada’s source for trusted journalism, providing eye-opening investigations and thought-provoking opinions from the country’s most award-winning newsroom. Joining us on our journey will be The Globe’s intrepid team, President & CEO, Andrew Saunders and Editor-in-chief, David Walmsley, who will take on hosting duties. Cookbook author and Globe food contributor, Tara O’Brady and Globe Wine columnist Christopher Waters will ensure we’re well fed and imbibed along the way. They will be joined by reporters and columnist including Mark MacKinnon, Andrew Coyne, Susan Krashinsky Robertson and Grant Robertson who will each host forums and tours.

Together, they will give you a behind-the-scenes look at some of The Globe’s headline stories and their views on some of the world’s most pressing issues.

Andrew Saunders
President & CEO

Andrew Saunders is the President and CEO of The Globe and Mail, overseeing all aspects of Canada's national newspaper, its business magazine, digital advertising network, digital platforms and events and conference lines of business. With over 20 years of experience at The Globe, he brings expertise in revenue generation and management, business transformation, change management and digitization, data analytics & consumer insights,  technology implementation, branding and performance marketing, pricing optimization and more.

In his previous role as Chief Revenue Officer at The Globe, Andrew was responsible for shaping the monetization strategy and driving the business transition from print to digital across all facets of the business, including subscription revenue, licensing, advertising sales, events and conference business, data engineering & analytics, digital media/UX and consumer marketing.

In his capacity as President and CEO, Andrew Saunders is dedicated to maintaining The Globe and Mail’s journalistic excellence and steering it towards innovation in the ever-evolving media landscape.

David Walmsley
Editor-in-Chief

David Walmsley was appointed the Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail in March 2014. His appointment returned him to The Globe where he previously worked as the Managing Editor and National Editor. Under his editorship, The Globe and Mail has won the Michener Award, National Newspaper Awards, top honours among an international field at the global Online Journalism Awards and a series of Eppy awards recognizing digital excellence.

David previously held senior positions at the CBC in Toronto and Ottawa, Toronto Star and National Post. He began his career at The Belfast Telegraph where he was named Northern Ireland Young Journalist of the Year in 1995. He also worked for The Daily Record in Scotland, and The Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph in London.

Tara O’Brady
Food Writer

Tara O'Brady is the author of the bestselling cookbook Seven Spoons (Ten Speed press and Appetite by Random House, 2015) and the award-winning site of the same name. Tara is known for straightforward home cooking that reflects the way many of us are cooking today—seasonally, with an international perspective, an emphasis on balanced eating, and ethically-sourced ingredients. 

Seven Spoons won the Taste Canada Silver Award, and garnered mention in the New York Times, Canadian House and Home, Flare, and Ricardo Magazine, among others. Tara writes for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, and has been a past contributor to Kinfolk and Uppercase magazines.

Christopher Waters
Wine Writer

Christopher Waters has been writing about wine for two decades. He is education director of IWEG Drinks Academy in Toronto and a WSET (Wine Spirits Education Trust) certified instructor at the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute, Brock University.

For 21 years, he was the editor/co-founder of Canada's largest circulation wine magazine, VINES, and author of a nationally syndicated column, Waters & Wine.

An internationally recognized wine judge, Christopher served as head judge and organizer of the InterVin International Wine Awards for 10 years (2009-2019) and continues to represent Canada for the Six Nations Wine Challenge. He was awarded the Business Citizen of the Year at the 2011 Niagara Grape and Wine Festival and was received the VQA Promoters Award for Education, also in 2011.

Mark MacKinnon is currently based in London, where he is The Globe's Senior International Correspondent, reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis, the rise of Islamic State, the war in eastern Ukraine and Scotland's independence referendum. He spent five years as The Globe’s Beijing correspondent, winning accolades for his investigations into the garment industry in Asia and the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. Mark has also been posted to the Middle East and Moscow.

A seven-time National Newspaper Award winner, Mark is also the author of The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics and The China Diaries, an e-book of his train travels through the Middle Kingdom.

Andrew Coyne is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. Raised in Winnipeg, Mr. Coyne is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics‎. He has worked previously for The National Post, Maclean’s and Southam News, contributing as well to a wide range of other publications in Canada and abroad, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and The Walrus. He is also a weekly panelist on CBC’s The National.

Susan Krashinsky Robertson
 Report on Business Reporter

Susan is a business reporter who covers the retail sector in Canada. She also writes about the arts for the Globe and Mail, including the world of ballet. In her 14 years with the Globe’s Report on Business, she has covered issues such as the business implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shifts in the Canadian media landscape, the environmental impact of product packaging, and the world of food marketing. Susan was a finalist for a National Newspaper Award for her feature going behind the scenes to chronicle the making of Karen Kain’s Swan Lake. She has been nominated for a Michener Award and a National Newspaper Award as part of a team covering Hockey Canada’s response to rape allegations against players. Before joining The Globe and Mail in 2009, Susan worked as a freelance reporter contributing to CBC Radio, as well as publications including the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Gazette. During her studies toward a Masters degree in journalism at Carleton University, she participated in a program working at a radio station in Kigali, Rwanda. She has also lived in Osaka, Japan.

Grant Robertson
Investigative Reporter

Grant Robertson is an investigative reporter based in Toronto. His work has delved into rail disasters, the Boeing 737 Max, the financial markets, marijuana legalization, and the shutdown of Canada’s pandemic early warning system. His sports investigations have uncovered abuse of athletes by their coaches, and exposed secret funds inside Hockey Canada.

He has reported from 12 countries, writing about the mysterious lives of lab monkeys in Canada; the plight of Cuban baseball players in Havana; experiments to turn child prodigies into Formula One drivers in Italy; and he once managed to track down a Canadian fugitive in the Czech Republic who the RCMP could not find. He has covered several Olympics, from Sochi to Rio and PyeongChang.

He holds the record for most National Newspaper Awards in Canada, with nine. He has been recognized an unprecedented eight times by the Michener Awards, the country's top honour for public service journalism. And in 2023 he was named Investigative Reporter of the Year by the Canadian Association of Journalists.