Jennifer
Ditchburn
Jennifer Ditchburn is the President and CEO of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP). Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of the IRPP’s influential digital magazine, Policy Options. She spent two decades covering national and parliamentary affairs for The Canadian Press and for CBC Television. Ditchburn is the winner of three National Newspaper Awards, the recipient of the prestigious Charles Lynch Award for outstanding coverage of national issues, and three Canadian Online Publishing silver awards. With Graham Fox, she is the co-editor of the book The Harper Factor: Assessing a Prime Minister’s Policy Legacy.
Juror History
- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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