Stephen Kimber
Stephen Edward Kimber ONS (born August 25, 1949) is a Canadian journalist, editor, broadcaster, and teacher at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was born in Halifax and studied at Dalhousie University (1967–1970), where he edited the Dalhousie Gazette. He earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in 2001.
From 1985 to 2002, Kimber wrote a weekly political and general column for The Daily News in Halifax. Today he writes a weekly political/public affairs column for the Halifax Examiner and is a contributing editor for Atlantic Business Magazine. His work has appeared in many major Canadian newspapers and magazines.
As a broadcaster in Ottawa, he produced current affairs for CTV and worked with CBC on various TV and radio programs as producer, editor, writer, and host.
Kimber has taught at the University of King's College since 1983 and has led the School of Journalism three times. In 2013 he helped start the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program.
Awards: He received an honorable mention from the Centre for Investigative Journalism with Kelly Shiers for a Cities Magazine piece about a botched search for a missing boy in Nova Scotia. He won the 2022 Evelyn Richardson Award for Alexa!: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics. In 2023 he was named to the Order of Nova Scotia for his work in national journalism and mentoring.
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