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SEEJulian Sher, the creator and webmaster of JournalismNet, is an award-winning documentary TV producer and the author of three investigative books . He is also an Internet trainer and consultant for top media clients around the globe.

 

Who is Julian Sher?

Julian Sher, the creator and webmaster of JournalismNet, is an award-winning documentary TV producer and the author of four bestselling investigative books . He is also an Internet trainer and consultant for top media clients around the globe. He is currently working on assignment for a joint project by the New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on terrorism.

He is the co-author of an upcoming book called "Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire" to be published in the spring of 2006 in the United States, UK, Australia, the Netherlands and Canada.

He co-wrote the national bestseller "The Road to Hell: How Biker Gangs Conquered Canada" which was named Best True Crime Book of the Year for 2004 by the Crime Writers of Canada.

He is also the author of "Until You are Dead" which examines Canada's most famous murder trial and "White Hoods: The Ku Klux Klan", a book about racism.

Two of his books are currently being made into movies.

Julian has trained journalists around the world to master the Internet as a tool for investigative reporting.  In Europe, clients include the BBC, ITN, CNBC, NBC, the Maastricht European Journalism Centre, and the national broadcasters in Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Finland.  In North America, Julian has trained in the newsrooms of CNN, CBC, CTV, Readers’ Digest, and the Montreal Gazette and for the Radio and Television News Directors Association.  (Click here for a more complete list of clients) 

On special assignment, Julian has also trained journalists in Kosovo for the Canadian International Development Agency, and in the African countries of Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria for the World Bank. He also consulted for the OECD in Paris and UNICEF in New York.

Julian writes extensively about journalism and the web for "Media" magazine in Canada, as well as for CNN Online, the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen and the Commonwealth Broadcasters Association.  He has been interviewed about the Internet by Wired.com, CBC, BBC and by other media around the world. (Click here for a selection of articles about how to use the web and click here for articles about how the web is changing journalism.) He has been a guest speaker at the schools of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

For 10 years, Julian worked as an investigative TV producer for CBC-TV's leading documentary show, "the fifth estate", from 1990 to 2000. Julian covered scandals, wars and corporate intrigue in South Africa, Somalia, Holland, France, England, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and the United States and Canada. He is a three-time nominee for a Gemini (Canada's equivalent of the Oscars for TV), and won a Gemini for Best Documentary in 1997. 

Before becoming a network TV producer, Julian was a TV reporter and producer in Montreal and a morning radio show producer and writer. In all, he has 16 years experience as a TV and radio broadcaster. 

Julian has been active in media and human rights issues. He is the former president of the Canadian Association of Journalists and is a current member of the advisory board of the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, which monitors press freedoms around the world.

He is a graduate in Honours History from McGill University in Montreal where he currently makes his home. He can be reached at jsher@journalismnet.com.  Click here for more ways to contact Julian Sher.



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