News reporting and analysis

Madelaine Drohan has been the Ottawa correspondent for The Economist since February 2006, writing on Canadian national issues, business and finance for a global audience. In September 2007, she started a weekly online column for the Report on Business section of The Globe and Mail. In it she analyzes economic and business events of national and international import. She previously wrote on similar topics for the Money section of CBC.ca, the online news site of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her commentaries are based on experience gained in 25 years of reporting on politics, business and economics for The Globe and Mail, the Financial Post, Macleans magazine, and the Canadian Press, in Canada and abroad. Some of her recent work can be found under Selected Writing.

Editing and research

In addition to her news reporting and analysis, Madelaine Drohan does research, editing and writing of longer studies for the Economist Intelligence Unit, which is part of the Economist Group. These cover national topics, such as country forecasts and reports on Canada, as well as international matters, such as the state of anti-corruption initiatives in the private sector. Outside of her work for the EIU, she was the lead editor on a report by Rights and Democracy titled Human Rights Impact Assessment. The report was a three-year initiative to draft a way of measuring the impact of companies on the human rights of communities. She also edited a series of reports written by the Centre for Dialogue and Research in Somalia which formed part of an economic survey of Somalia funded by the UNDP.

Media Training

Since 2000, Madelaine Drohan has written and conducted training workshops for journalists in Africa and Asia. The workshops cover investigative journalism, plus business and economic writing. They are done in partnership with local media organizations and financed by a variety of governments and institutions. Further details on the workshops can be found under Media Training.

Speaking

Madelaine Drohan does occasional speaking engagements, when she considers the topic relevant to the work she has done. Interested parties should contact her directly using the details under Contact.

Bilingual Biography

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Experience and education

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS


2004-2005 Media fellow, Chumir Foundation, Calgary AB
2004-2005 Journalist-in-residence Carleton University Ottawa
2004 Ottawa Book Award
2001 Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy ournalism, Public Policy Forum, Ottawa ON
1998-1999 Reuters Fellowship, Oxford University, Oxford UK

EDUCATION

1974-1977 Ryerson University Toronto -- Bachelor of Journalism
1982-1983 Canadian Securities Institute -- Securities Course
1984 University of Western Ontario -- Economics for Journalists
1985 Laval University, Quebec -- French immersion summer session
1999-2001 Alliance Francaise, Ottawa -- French improvement

EXPERIENCE

2006-2008 Economist correspondent, media trainer

Ms Drohan has been the Ottawa correspondent for The Economist since February 2006. In September 2007, she started a weekly online column for The Globe and Mail in the Report on Business section. Prior to that, she had been writing a regular online column for the CBC website on Canadian economic issues. In March 2007, she and David Okwembah of Kenya delivered an investigative journalism workshop for journalists in Kigali, Rwanda. She spent the month of May 2006 in Thailand, delivering a series of media training workshops to senior Thai journalists. The last of the workshops trained Thai journalists to deliver the training themselves.

2004-2005 Media trainer, public speaker, freelance writer

Ms Drohan wrote on business, economics and politics for a number of publications, including The Economist, The Globe and Mail, Walrus Magazine and The Toronto Star. She conducted media training workshops in Thailand and Zambia in the spring of 2004, followed by workshops in Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya in 2005, financed by the Canadian department of Foreign Affairs. The topic of her Chumir Foundation research was: Will the Post-Enron Momentum for Better Corporate Governance be Continued? She spoke regularly on her current research and that done for her book: Making a Killing: How and why corporations use armed force, published in the US in 2004 by The Lyons Press. As journalist-in-residence at Carleton University, she worked with journalism students.

2001-2003 Research, writing and media training

With the aid of a research grant from the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Ms Drohan researched and wrote a book on the corporate use of armed force, making numerous field trips to Africa. She left her full-time job at The Globe and Mail in 2001 in order to pursue this work. In 2001 and 2002, she conducted media workshops in Zambia, jointly sponsored by the Canadian, American and British missions. In 2003, she did the first in a series of media workshops in Thailand on investigative journalism.

1991-1998 Foreign correspondent

In this period, Ms Drohan was European business correspondent for The Globe and Mail newspaper, covering business, economics and politics at a time of momentous change: the European Union was forming, Eastern Europe was converting from communism to capitalism, and Britain was moving from a Conservative to a Labour government. She covered elections in Britain, Spain, Italy, France and Poland, followed the world trade talks from beginning to end, and reported on resource developments in Africa and Russia. At the end of her London posting, she spent an academic year at Oxford on a Reuters Fellowship. In the years 1977-1990, she worked for several major Canadian media organizations in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver, covering politics, finance and business.

Gallery

Training Workshop

Michael Rose, Prangtip Daorueng, Madelaine Drohan
Thailand 2006

Book Research

Offshore Oil Platform,
Niger Delta 2000.

Journalism Workshop

Fred Assimwe, Madelaine Drohan, David Okwembah,
Rwanda 2007